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Icelandic voice-over

Native Icelandic 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 Icelandic 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.

Icelandic voices

No public Icelandic 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 Icelandic voices reading them.

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What Icelandic voice-over is hired for

Iceland
Icelandic is the national language and used in all public communication.
Tourism
Operators record guest information in Icelandic and other languages.
Icelanders abroad
Communities in Denmark and elsewhere are reached with a familiar voice.

Typical projects

Tourism operators
Banks and telecoms
Public bodies
Education providers

Icelandic in a voice-over brief

Icelandic has changed little from Old Norse, which lets modern speakers read medieval sagas with effort. Nouns, names and numbers inflect for case, so a name inserted into a sentence needs the correct form. The population is small and the pool of professional voices is limited. Tourism, banking and public services are typical clients. A brief states the register, how names are inflected and whether English will be recorded beside Icelandic.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Icelandic session.

Inflection
Names and numbers inflect, so scripts need a native pass.
Conservative language
It has changed little in a thousand years of writing.
Small voice pool
Availability is confirmed before quoting.

What casting decides in Icelandic

Icelandic or English
Tourism uses both.
Register
Public notices are 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.