Dub Video to Italian (Doppiare un Video in Italiano)

Italy has one of the oldest dubbing traditions in the world — foreign films have been dubbed rather than subtitled there since the 1930s — and Italian audiences notice a bad dub more than most. The practical consequence is that the editable line list matters: it is worth reading the Italian before you let the voice say it.

Courses, tutorials, product videos and travel content are the usual cases, along with English creators making an Italian version of a video that already did well.

Italian is among the easier languages for a synthetic voice: it is written close to how it sounds, so the voice rarely mispronounces an ordinary word. Where it does slip is on English brand names dropped into an Italian sentence, which it may read as Italian.

Italian is longer than English, so some lines are spoken a little faster to stay with the picture. Italian also prefers longer, more formal sentence shapes than English does, and the translation follows that — which reads well but adds length.

There is no lip-sync. In a country where dubbing is a craft with its own actors, it is worth being plain about that: this replaces the voice track in time with the original, it does not match the mouth.