Basa Jawa

Javanese voice-over

Native Javanese 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 Javanese 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.

Javanese voices

No public Javanese 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 Javanese voices reading them.

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What Javanese voice-over is hired for

Central and East Java
The home region of Javanese speakers.
Yogyakarta and Surakarta
Cities with a courtly speech tradition.
Regional campaigns
Brands use Javanese to speak to local audiences.

Typical projects

Regional brands and banks
Public bodies
Telecoms
Tourism

Javanese in a voice-over brief

Javanese has speech levels, called ngoko, madya and krama, which change vocabulary according to how much respect the speaker shows. Choosing the wrong level sounds rude or comic. Javanese is written in Latin letters today, with the traditional script mostly seen in heritage uses. A brief states the level, the region, such as Yogyakarta or East Java, and whether Indonesian versions will be recorded.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Javanese session.

Speech levels
Javanese changes vocabulary with the respect due to the listener. The brief names the level.
Latin script on screen
Most written Javanese today uses Latin letters.
Beside Indonesian
Many campaigns run in both.

What casting decides in Javanese

Javanese or Indonesian
Local ads want Javanese.
Speech level
We agree it first.

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.