See lector in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2011, David Bellos, chapter 12, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:",
"text": "How much of Colbert's political satire can be truly grasped by a Hungarian viewer of a lectored episode is slightly beside the point: something gets through.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To do a voice-over translation of a film."
],
"links": [
[
"voice-over",
"voice-over"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛktə(ɹ)/"
}
],
"word": "lector"
}
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