Euskara

Basque voice-over

Native Basque voice actors for the Basque Country, cast for your audience and directed by our team. You hear a shortlist and approve a written quote first.

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Samples

We send Basque samples chosen for your script.

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Human
Real human voices
Every voice is a professional actor in a booth. No synthetic voices.
Native
Their first language
Cast from speakers who grew up with the language your audience speaks.
Directed
A director on every line
We listen for meaning, pace and pronunciation in the session, not after it.

Basque voices

No public Basque demos yet. We record samples on your own lines instead.

Samples on your own lines

Send a few lines of your script and we come back with Basque voices reading them.

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What Basque voice-over is hired for

The Basque Autonomous Community
Basque is co-official and used in public information, education and media.
Navarre and the French Basque Country
Local variants and usage differ.
Education and culture
Schools, museums and broadcasters produce content in Basque.

Typical projects

Regional institutions and public media
Education and cultural bodies
Local retailers and food producers
Tourism brands

Basque in a voice-over brief

Basque has no known relatives among living languages. It uses ergative grammar and a verb that can agree with subject, object and indirect object. The unified standard, Euskara Batua, was created in the 1960s and is used in schools and media. Dialects such as Bizkaian and Gipuzkoan differ from it. A brief states the standard or dialect and the audience.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Basque session.

Unrelated to Spanish and French
Basque has its own grammar and word order, so Spanish scripts cannot be read in it.
Standard and dialect
Euskara Batua is the written standard. Speech varies by area.
Long words
Words with many suffixes need careful pace.

What casting decides in Basque

Standard or local
Public content uses the standard; local ads may use local speech.
Basque and Spanish pairs
Most projects run in both.

How we work

Casting
We shortlist voices for your language, audience and tone, and explain the difference between them. You choose, and approve a written quote.
Direction
A director runs the session against your brief: meaning, pace and every agreed pronunciation. You can listen in remotely.
Delivery
Every file is checked against the script word by word and technically, then delivered in your format and naming.

What decides the price

No price list: every quote is written for your project and states usage and the delivery date.

Length: Word count or running time of the finished audio.
Use and territory: Internal, online or broadcast; where it runs and for how long.
Voice: Some languages and voice profiles are scarcer than others.
Picture and files: Recording to timecode, splitting and naming add work.