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you require an Ethnic voice over talent other then English
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Translation services are also available. Voice talents
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Afrikaans is a language
spoken in South Africa, Namibia, and other parts of Southern
Africa. It is derived from Dutch as the Dutch settlers
landed in South Africa in the 1600's. Afrikaans is also
used as a "novelty" for advertising in Dutch
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Gikuyu (sometimes written
Kikuyu, pronounced and 'proper' spelling Gikuyu) is a
language in the Central Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo
family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people of Kenya.
The Gikuyu people are the largest ethnic group in Kenya
(approximately 22% of Kenya's population). Gikuyu has
four main mutually intelligible dialects. Gikuyu is one
of the five languages of the Thagichu subgroup of the
Bantu languages that stretches from Kenya to Tanzania.
The Gikuyu people usually identify their lands by the
surrounding mountain ranges in Central Kenya which they
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Kiswahili (or Swahili)
is an African language ( it is a mix of about 25% Arabic
language and 75% Bantu language) spoken mainly by the
people of eastern and central Africa. That is, people
who live in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi,
Zaire, Malawi, northern Mozambigue, Zambia and Somali
Republic, Congo Brazavile, Sudan, the Comoro Islands,
Mayotte the northern part of Malagasy Republic, and the
Persian Gulf states. Kiswahili is a national language
in Kenya, Tanzania, Congo (DRC) and Uganda and is the
only official African language of the African Union.
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Arabic language is spoken in many regions of the world,
from North Africa to the Middle East, and the dialects
differ greatly. However, all Arabic speakers are able
to speak Modern Standard Arabic, which is the official
language of the Arab World. It is used in present-day
media including television, radio, and all written matter
like newspapers, books, magazines and official documents.
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Chinese - Cantonese Voice Talent
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your commercial, corporate video or documentary will air
in Mainland China and/or Taiwan, you'll want to record
in Mandarin. If it will air in Hong Kong,
you'll likely want to record in Cantonese.
After 1997, some people in Hong Kong started to learn
Mandarin because of political factors but Cantonese is
still by far the most commonly spoken language there. |
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Chinese - Mandarin Voice Talent
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Finnish
is the official language of Finland, located by the Scandinavian
countries in Northern Europe. Finnish is spoken by the
5.3 million Finns living in Finland and roughly 1 million
living abroad. |
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French - Canadian Voice Talent
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French - European Voice Talent
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French European, we refer to the French that is spoken
in France and other parts of Europe. If your commercial
or video is geared towards the European market, this page
is where you want to be. All the talents below, while
living in Canada, either grew up in Europe or learned
to speak French the European way. |
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German is spoken throughout the German speaking areas
of the world : Austria, Germany, parts of Switzerland,
Liechtenstein and parts of Luxembourg. Of course, in all
of these areas, there are dialects, but all German speakers
are able to speak High German. |
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are no noticeable variations of Greek - the spoken language
is consistent throughout the country. This is one instance
where we hope it is indeed all Greek to you. |
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Although
India has many ethnic dialects, Hindi is the national
language and it will be understood everywhere in India. |
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good news is...Italian is Italian! It's not about regional
dialects or accents that only some people in a region
can understand. If someone speaks Italian, everyone in
all of Italy understands them! |
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the Japanese language can very slightly in writing depending
on the region, the spoken language is consistent throughout
the country. If someone speaks Japanese, everyone in Japan
understands them! |
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The Korean language is
consistent throughout the country. If someone speaks Korean,
everyone in Korea understands them! |
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Norwegian is spoken by
4,5 million inhabitants, and the language can be divided
into bokmaal and neo-norse, and different dialects. The
most neutral way of
presenting any text/script would be in Normated Bokmaal,
the standard
of most broadcasters. |
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Polish (jezyk polski)
is the official language of Poland and originated from
several local Western Slavic dialects, most notably those
spoken in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) and Lesser Poland
(Malopolska). It shares some vocabulary with the languages
of the neighboring Slavic nations, most notably with Slovak,
Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian.
"Standard" Polish is still spoken somewhat differently
in different regions of the country, although the differences
between these broad "dialects" are slight. |
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| Portuguese is spoken
in various parts of the world, but most notably, Brazil
and of course Portugal. The language they speak in those
two countries is exactly the same but the accents are
different. Let us know if your project is aimed at the
Brazilian market or to people in Portugal, and we'll find
the right voice for you. |
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Romanian is the Latin
language spoken by almost 30 million people from Romania,
Republic of Moldova but also form all around the world
where are Romanians (Spain, Italy, US, Portugal etc) and
is also one of the languages of The European Union.
If your script will be recorded for a certain area
of Romania, please let us know. Small differences in
accent will be adjused to accomodate that area of Romania.
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In terms of Russian dialects
- there are some, however, they are not that far apart
from each other. In the different regions you can hear
some distinctive words that would not be used in other
regions but any Russian native speaker will definitely
understand those words anyway. So, in short - Russian
is Russian. |
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Spanish
is spoken by 300 million people worldwide and that means
there are differences. Basically it's like the difference
that exists between British English and American English.
So the question becomes, in what country will your commercial,
corporate video or documentary play? If it's Mexico then
a Mexican accent is preferable, ditto for Argentina and
Spain. Other Latin countries are not as exacting, provided
you never give them a Mexican voice outside of Mexico!
What is considered to be a "standard Latin American
accent" (one that minimizes regionalisms) is acceptable
to all south and Central American countries and is a safe
way to go if you don't know the final destination of the
product, or if it is aimed at the entire South American
market.
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Sweden
is located on the scandinavian peninsula in northern Europe.
The swedish language is closely related to norwegian and
danish. It is used by approx. 10.000.000 people. Swedish
is also spoken in the western parts of Finland. There
are many different dialects. However, in commercials and
corporate narrations, standard swedish is used, without
any dialect. There are no polar bears on the streets.
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of Turkish words is phonetic with all letters having the
same value in every situation. The Turkish alphabet contains
all the letters of the English alphabet except for q,
x, and w. In general, most letters are pronounced about
the same as in English with a few exceptions. The standard
educated Turkish is that spoken in Istanbul. The Istanbul
Turkish is considered nice, gentle, accentless and rich.
Turkey is a big country with 7 different regions, where
there are different dialects. It goes without saying that
the Turkish spoken in Istanbul, alias the Turkish of the
educated, can be understood easily by anyone in Turkey
regardless of his/her region while it may be a bit difficult
when it is the other way round. The official parlance
no matter what the domain may be prefers the Istanbul
Turkish. |
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Ukrainian is the official
language of Ukraine today. Only a few years ago almost
all Ukrainian people spoke Russian as well, but today,
if you need something done for Ukrainian mass media, you
have to translate and record everything into Ukrainian.
There are a few dialects in the language (Poltavian, Karpatian,ets)
, but for radio, TV or dubbing the classical pronunciation
is appreciated. |
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