Eesti

Estonian voice-over

Native Estonian 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 Estonian 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.

Estonian voices

No public Estonian 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 Estonian voices reading them.

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What Estonian voice-over is hired for

Estonia
Tallinn speech is the broadcast standard.
Digital services
Banks and public services publish audio and video in Estonian.
Estonians abroad
Communities in Finland and elsewhere are reached with a familiar voice.

Typical projects

Banks and fintech
Public bodies
Retail and telecoms
Learning teams

Estonian in a voice-over brief

Estonian is a Finnic language, related to Finnish but not mutually intelligible with it. It has three degrees of vowel and consonant length, a feature that can change the meaning of a word. Estonia’s public services and banks are largely digital, which makes recorded and spoken interfaces common. A brief states the audience, whether Russian will be recorded beside Estonian and how English brand names are pronounced.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Estonian session.

Three lengths
Estonian has short, long and overlong sounds that change meaning.
Related to Finnish
Finnish speakers understand some, but the languages differ.
Long words
Compounds need careful reading.

What casting decides in Estonian

Estonian or Russian
Many audiences are bilingual; see the Russian page.
Register
Public notices are plain and short.

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.