In today’s world of cinema and television, many of the contents allow a choice between watching the content in the original language, accompanied by subtitles in another language (text that appears on the screen, usually at the bottom, which transcribes the spoken audio of the program or movie) and watching the content dubbed into another language ( Changing the spoken audio during a film or program in another language). As a baseline, if you don’t speak the film’s original language, you’ll likely need Dubbing or subtitles to understand the content. Both Dubbing and subtitles have advantages and disadvantages.
Subtitles
• If you want to enjoy a viewing experience as presented and designed by the director, then subtitles will allow you to hear the original voices. Dubbing may harm the authentic experience of the content since the choice of the dubbing voices is a compromise over the director’s original choice of tone and style.
• Compared to Dubbing, which forces the original text to adapt to match the character’s lip movements, subtitles are faithful to the original text and do not harm its meaning.
• Subtitles do not harm the visuals. Any lip movement on the screen that does not match the Dubbing you hear will look strange and distracting.
•Subtitles preserve the cultural nuances of a movie or program. Language-based puns and jokes can get lost in translation to dubbing in other languages.
•Subtitles are an excellent accessibility tool for people who are hard of hearing and cannot enjoy watching dubbed content.
dubbing
• Dubbing will keep your focus in the center of the screen. Subtitles, on the other hand, will distract your eyes from the center of the image, which means that you constantly miss happenings on the screen, which is a shame.
• The dubbing frees the dependence on reading subtitles and lets you drift into the visual story.
• Dubbing is the number one accessibility tool for the visually impaired. Without the Dubbing, the right of the visually impaired to enjoy content in foreign languages would be denied to them.
• Dubbing will be very helpful for anyone who has difficulty quickly reading the alternating subtitles or does not know how to read. For example, children.
Both Dubbing and subtitles have advantages and disadvantages. The answer to the question of which one is better is not unequivocal, and it lies in the preferences and needs of the viewer.
