Chichewa

Chichewa voice-over

Native Chichewa voice actors, cast for your audience and directed by our team. You hear a shortlist and approve a written quote before recording.

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Samples

We send Chichewa 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.

Chichewa voices

No public Chichewa 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 Chichewa voices reading them.

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What Chichewa voice-over is hired for

Malawi
The national language.
Zambia and Mozambique
Related varieties are spoken.
Health and education
NGOs and agencies publish audio.

Typical projects

NGOs and aid bodies
Telecoms and banks
Public bodies
Education providers

Chichewa in a voice-over brief

Chichewa is the national language of Malawi and is closely related to Nyanja in Zambia. It is a Bantu language with noun-class prefixes and tones, written in Latin letters. Health, agriculture and education are frequent subjects for recorded information, and radio reaches audiences outside the cities. Listeners expect a plain, friendly read. In the brief we ask whether the audience is rural or urban, which words from English stay as they are and whether the voice should match a presenter already used in the campaign.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Chichewa session.

Noun classes
Words agree across the sentence, so translated scripts need a native check.
Tones
Tone shapes meaning.
English in business
English is used in formal settings.

What casting decides in Chichewa

Chichewa or English
Different audiences.
Register
Health information is plain.

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.