Ikinyarwanda

Kinyarwanda voice-over

Native Kinyarwanda 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 Kinyarwanda 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.

Kinyarwanda voices

No public Kinyarwanda 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 Kinyarwanda voices reading them.

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What Kinyarwanda voice-over is hired for

Rwanda
The national language, understood by almost everyone.
The region
Related varieties are spoken in neighbouring countries.
Public information
Government and NGOs publish audio.

Typical projects

Government and NGOs
Telecoms and banks
Health agencies
Consumer brands

Kinyarwanda in a voice-over brief

Kinyarwanda is the national language of Rwanda and is spoken by almost the whole population, which makes it unusual in Africa. It is a tonal Bantu language with prefixes that agree across a sentence, and it is closely related to Kirundi in neighbouring Burundi. English and French are used in business and administration, so scripts often include terms from both. For a recording we agree the register, check the text with a native reader and note how names and borrowed words should be said.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Kinyarwanda session.

Tones and noun classes
Tone and agreement shape sentences.
Close to Kirundi
Related but distinct.
English and French in business
Business mixes languages.

What casting decides in Kinyarwanda

Kinyarwanda or English
Different audiences.
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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.