Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25222488-20150311220159/@comment-6697950-20150312073420

It is possible to get it word for word, but then everyone would sound like village idiots.

Crunhyroll translates from a script, not the footage, so they don't even bother to look at it.

And there's of course a limit to the amount of words that anyone can read in a short period of time, so the translators have to account for this by following a set word per seconds the subtitles are shown formula to not make it inconvenient to read.