Lingála

Lingala voice-over

Native Lingala 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 Lingala 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.

Lingala voices

No public Lingala 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 Lingala voices reading them.

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What Lingala voice-over is hired for

Kinshasa and Brazzaville
The urban centres.
Radio and music
Broadcasters and music producers use Lingala.
Health and NGO information
Agencies publish audio.

Typical projects

Telecoms and banks
NGOs and health agencies
Media producers
Consumer brands

Lingala in a voice-over brief

Lingala grew as a trade and river language and is now the everyday language of Kinshasa and Brazzaville and of much Congolese music and radio. Speakers move easily between Lingala and French, so a script has to decide where one stops and the other starts. Words and phrases change with the city and the generation, and a voice that sounds right in Kinshasa may feel foreign elsewhere. For a recording we agree the register with you, collect the French terms that stay unchanged, and confirm which voices are available before we send a quote.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Lingala session.

Tonal language
Tones shape meaning.
French mixing
Speakers mix French.
Urban and regional
Speech varies.

What casting decides in Lingala

Lingala or French
Different audiences.
Register
Radio is conversational.

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.