voice-over, off-screen

"They say that when one door shuts another opens. And on the very night Grace died, ITV started, and immediately needed people with just exactly my experience to voice the commercials. And so I was able to make a good living from voice-overs for years."

Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts, and video games) and radio and audio dramas and comedy, doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.

voice-over 

Pronunciation: /ˈvɔɪsˌəʊvə/ 

NOUN

A piece of narration in a film or broadcast, not accompanied by an image of the speaker: 1947the budget is summarized in a voice-over at the end of the news[MASS NOUN]: the coordination of live voice-over, music, and slides[AS MODIFIER]: voice-over dialogue

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VERB

[WITH OBJECT]

Narrate (spoken material) for a film or broadcast as a voice-over:we had to voice-over some passages of dialoguethe commercials are voice-overed

voice-over

音節vóice-òver

[名][U][C]（テレビ・映画などの）画面外の声, ボイスオーバー, ナレーション.

O.S. （Off-Screen）台詞

說話的人雖然在畫面中看不到，但是卻與畫面中人物存在同一個時空環境下。例如台上在開演唱會的時候，我們在一個鏡頭裡看到台下的觀眾興奮的拍手尖叫，但我們還是聽得到台上的演唱或說話，這時他們的台詞我們就可以用O.S.來表示。我們看不到說話的人，但他卻是和我們所看到的畫面在同一時空的。

V.O. （Voice over）台詞

這段台詞並不是在現場被說出來的，也不與畫面中人物在同一個時空環境下。 例如當我們聽到人物的內心獨白，或是對觀眾敘述的旁白，這種說話者不是在現場說話的情況，我們就可以用V.O.來表示這段台詞。

off-screen 

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ADJECTIVE

1Not appearing on a cinema, television, or computer screen:he drawls to an off-screen interrogator

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1.1[ATTRIBUTIVE] Happening in reality rather than fictionally on-screen:they were off-screen lovers

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ADVERB

1Outside what can be seen on a television or cinema screen:the girl is looking off-screen to the right

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1.1In real life rather than fictionally in a film or on television:happy endings rarely happen off-screen