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Kurdish voice-over

Native Kurdish voice actors for Kurmanji and Sorani, cast for your audience and directed by our team. You hear a shortlist and approve a written quote first.

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Samples

We send Kurdish 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.

Kurdish voices

No public Kurdish 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 Kurdish voices reading them.

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What Kurdish voice-over is hired for

Iraqi Kurdistan
Sorani is widely used in media and government.
Turkey and Syria
Kurmanji is widely spoken, usually in Latin script.
The diaspora
Communities in Europe use both varieties.

Typical projects

NGOs and aid bodies
Media producers
Telecoms and banks
Public bodies

Kurdish in a voice-over brief

Kurdish is divided mainly into Kurmanji, written in Latin letters and spoken in Turkey, Syria and the north of Iraq, and Sorani, written in an Arabic-based script in Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran. The two varieties differ in grammar and vocabulary and are not fully mutually intelligible. A brief therefore begins by naming the variety, the script and the audience, and we confirm which voices are available before quoting.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Kurdish session.

Two main varieties
Kurmanji and Sorani differ clearly and are not interchangeable.
Two scripts
Sorani uses an Arabic-based script and Kurmanji uses Latin letters.
Right to left or left to right
Layout follows the script.

What casting decides in Kurdish

Kurmanji or Sorani
The audience decides.
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Public 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.