Over 70 African voice artists from Amharic to Zulu to choose from
Professional African voice-over services from Adelphi. We have Amharic, African French, Kamba, Kenyan Swahili, Oromo, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya, Yoruba, and Zulu voice-over artists available. We also have a selection of African artists speaking English with an African accent.
Adelphi is a full-service African voice-over agency. As well as providing African voice-over artists, our African voice-over service also includes transcription, translation, proofreading, recording, editing, and audio syncing. We have African voice artists and talents offering a variety of styles in a range of ages and some who can do character voices.
At Adelphi, we offer professionally edited audio as a standard for all of our voice-over projects. But what exactly does this mean? Go here and we will briefly look at what we do with the audio before we deliver it to our clients, turning the ‘raw’ unedited audio data into professional, clean-sounding voice-over files. Also included in our quality checks are, listening to the audio to check if errors have been made, pronunciation is correct, all the segments have been recorded, the timings are right, files are correctly split and named; we take out overly long pauses and normalize the levels so all the audio is of the same volume.
Spotlight: African voice-over artists
Sanjo O
Hausa African voice-over artist Sanjo has worked for many blue chip organizations including International brands like United Nations, Mastercard, MoneyGram, Deloitte, World Bank, Etihad Airways, Standard Chartered, P&G, Transparency International, IBM, KFC, World Vision, Unilever. Sanjo's native language is Hausa.
Jared
Swahili voice artist Jared is an experienced voice-over, who is originally from Tanzania. He records in both English and Swahili. Jared’s voice is smooth and soothing. It is ideal for narrations, documentaries, trailers, commercials, audiobooks,and Radio.
Vivian W
Swahili voice talent Vivian is a professional voice-over artist, media consultant, and linguist with over 10 years experience. She also offers translation services, transcription, dubbing, from English to Swahili and vice-versa.
African voice artist selection made easy
Select the African language from the dialect menu
Click the + to add voices to favorites and these will automatically be included in your quote request.
Fill out the rest of the form and we will get back to you with a quote.
You can download any of the audio files with the download button on the audio player.
These examples are from a recent voice-over project for Best Western recorded in 18 languages.
Danish, Dutch, English UK, Finnish, French, Japanese, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, and Korean.
BW Rewards Japanese
We provided the Japanese Voice Over for this Best Western Rewards promotional video. The voice over was provided by Yoshi.
For more information, please contact our UK or US office or please visit : http://adelphistudio.com/japanese-voice-over-services/
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
BW Rewards Russian
We provided the Russian Voice Over for this Best Western Rewards promotional video. The voice over was provided by Alexey.
For more information, please contact our UK or US office or please visit : http://adelphistudio.com/russian-voice-over-services/
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
BW Rewards Spanish
We provided the Spanish Voice Over for this Best Western Rewards promotional video.
For more information, please contact our UK or US office or please visit : http://adelphistudio.com/spanish-voice-over-services/
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
BW Rewards Norwegian
We provided the Norwegian Voice Over for this Best Western Rewards promotional video. The voice over was provided by Trond.
For more information, please contact our UK or US office or please visit : http://adelphistudio.com/norwegian-voice-over-services/
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
BW Rewards Dutch
We provided the Dutch Voice Over for this Best Western Rewards promotional video. The voice over was provided by Paul S.
For more information, please contact our UK or US office or please visit : http://adelphistudio.com/dutch-voice-over-services/
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
German
To see the full story about our voice-overs for Best Western in 18 languages Click here
Tips for voiceovers
Check the script for any spelling errors or grammar issues before the recording. This reduces the chance of any mistakes being made and re-recording to correct them, saving you time and money.
Make sure the script you send is the final version before we start recording, any changes afterward can be expensive to rectify.
Make a list or glossary of words, product names, etc that need to be kept in English.
Providereference materials and find out if the subject has already been translated or voiced into the language you require.This might mean there are already established ways to spell and pronounce product names etc.
CheckVideo usage as many voice artists charge depending on the end usage of the video i.e TV broadcast, radio broadcast, internet, IVR, and e-learning.
Be aware ofbuyouts for broadcast usage, as the buyout duration may differ in terms of cost and length (the period of when the material can be shown i.e weeks, months, and years) depending on the country and regions the material is broadcast in.
African voice-over translations
As part of our African voice-over service, Adelphi provides a full translation service to our customers. Our experienced translation team will work with you to fully understand your project in order to effectively manage the workflow from concept to completion. Our ultimate aim is to facilitate your communication objectives. Adelphi ensures that all our translators are professional and work only into their mother tongue. This ensures accuracy.
If the voice-over is going to be used over a video of a different language, then the voice-over translation may include time-codes to help the voice-artist and engineer sync up the voice to the video. Style of translation can be important for voice-over translation and must reflect the genre, such as if it is for marketing, public information, drama, etc. The translator will receive a copy of the video as a reference and be instructed to translate in a style matching the source material.
Transcription services
We also provide transcription services in any language, to provide time-coded scripts for translation. The length of many languages will expand when compared to original English and care must be taken in the translation to keep the true meaning of the English, while staying within the time frame allowed. For voice-overs and depending on the language, we sometimes have to edit the English to make a more concise version of the original, this is because the spoken version of many languages is much longer than the English and would not fit in the allocated time slot. Of course, the edited English is approved by the client before translation into African.
Subtitling Services
Adelphi Studio also translates and produces foreign language subtitles in all video formats such as MOV, MPEG-2, WMV, FLV, etc., making it ready to publish for film, TV, the web, or as a DVD with language menus.
Arabic Chinese Lao
French Russian Spanish
Finnish Subtitling
Portuguese Subtitling
Norwegian Subtitling
This Norwegian subtitling sample is taken from a project we translated and subtitled from English to Norwegian. For more information on our Norwegian subtitling and translation services visit www.adelphistudio.com or call +44 (0)114 272 3772
http://adelphistudio.com/norwegian-subtitling-services/
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
English Subtitling
English subtitling services. Adelphi produce professional English subtitles, plus subtitling in over 60 other languages. For you next English subtitling project please contact Adelphi on +(44) 0114 272 3772 or visit : http://adelphistudio.com/english-subtitling-services/
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
Tamil Subtitling
Adelphi Studio's Tamil voice-over, translation & recording services, here you can listen to some examples of our Tamil voice-over artists and see a small example of our Tamil subtitling services. For more information visit : http://adelphistudio.com/tamil-voice-over-services/ or http://adelphistudio.com/tamil-subtitling-services/ or call +44 (0)114 272 3772
email: (UK) sales@adelphistudio.com (USA) : us@adelphistudio.com
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Some client projects
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MAERSK Translations and Arabic Subtitling
Subtitling in 9 languages for United Nations UNODC
Best Western - Voice-overs in 18 Languages
Shift ms - Subtitling in in six European languages
