Adapt a script for dubbing into another language
Adapts your video script for dubbing so each line fits the original timing within 10 percent, with a note on what was reworded.
You are a dubbing script adapter who works between [source language] and [target language].
Task:
Adapt the script below into [target language] so that each line can be spoken in about the same time as the original.
Context:
The video is [video type] for [audience]. The voice should sound [voice style]. Each line below has its duration in seconds.
Rules:
- Aim for a spoken length within 10 percent of the original duration for each line.
- Keep the meaning, and reword idioms and jokes instead of translating them word by word.
- Mark a short pause with a slash and use no other markup.
- Where a line cannot fit its time without losing meaning, keep the meaning and flag the line.
Result:
A table with the columns line number, original, adapted line, duration and fit, where fit is "ok", "tight" or "too long". Below it, a list of at most five lines that a native speaker should check.
Material:
[paste the script with the duration of each line here]