Greek Voiceovers

Greek voice over

Greece is a small market that produces a disproportionate amount of institutional and EU-facing content, which shapes what gets commissioned: alongside the usual advertising and corporate work there is steady demand for public-sector, educational and compliance material that has to exist in Greek by obligation rather than by choice.

That mix matters for casting. Institutional Greek expects a formal, measured read; consumer advertising has moved somewhere much warmer, and the two do not swap.

Accent and standard

Standard Modern Greek, broadly Athens-based, is the broadcast norm and covers almost all commercial work. Regional variation exists, with Cypriot Greek the most distinct, and Cyprus is genuinely a separate market rather than a regional accent: a Cypriot audience notices an Athenian read immediately, and casting for Cyprus means casting in Cyprus.

Εσείς or εσύ

Greek forces a formality choice. Εσείς remains standard for institutional, financial and healthcare content, while consumer brands and anything aimed at a younger audience have moved to εσύ. The most common failure is a campaign that uses one in the advert and the other in the follow-up material, which every Greek listener registers as inconsistent.

The Greek alphabet breaks your graphics

The voice is the easy part. The recurring failure in Greek projects sits in on-screen text: fonts without Greek coverage substitute glyphs silently, and a typeface chosen for a Latin-script original frequently has no Greek at all.

Greek also expands against English, roughly 10 to 20 percent, so translated strings overflow boxes designed for the original. We check Greek coverage before the graphics stage rather than at delivery, and handle rebuilt text under localisation. For the audio, where a duration is fixed, the script is adapted at translation stage rather than read faster.

Transliteration and brand names

Foreign brand names can be left in Latin script or transliterated into Greek, and both appear in the market. The choice affects how the name is pronounced aloud, and there is often more than one accepted rendering. We settle it before the session rather than letting the actor decide in the booth, because two assets in one campaign pronouncing the product differently is a mistake nobody catches until launch.

Where Greek voice over is used

• Commercial voice over for broadcast, online and connected TV
• Corporate voice over and elearning voice over, including public-sector and compliance content
• Explainer voice over for product and onboarding video
• Documentary voice over and audiobook voice over
• Animation voice over and video game voice over
• IVR voice over and telephone voice over
• Subtitling, the dominant localisation format in Greece

What you get

• Custom demos from native Greek voices, read to your script
• Register settled against your audience before the session
• Greek font coverage checked, and expansion measured against your copy
• Brand-name pronunciation agreed in advance
• A fixed quote covering recording, direction, editing and usage

Send the script and tell us whether it is for Greece, Cyprus or both. Demos and a fixed quote usually within 24 hours.