Luganda

Luganda voice-over

Native Luganda 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 Luganda 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.

Luganda voices

No public Luganda 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 Luganda voices reading them.

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What Luganda voice-over is hired for

Kampala and central Uganda
The home region.
Mobile and health campaigns
Agencies reach large audiences by radio and phone.
The diaspora
Communities abroad.

Typical projects

Telecoms and mobile money
NGOs and health agencies
Banks
Consumer brands

Luganda in a voice-over brief

Luganda is the language of the Baganda people and the main language of Kampala and central Uganda. Like other Bantu languages it uses prefixes that agree across a sentence, and vowel length can change the meaning of a word. Many Ugandans move between Luganda, English and sometimes Swahili in a single conversation, so scripts need a clear rule about which language each phrase uses. We ask where the audience is, which medium the piece is for and whether any terms, such as mobile money services, are better left in English.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Luganda session.

Tonal and vowel length
Both shape meaning.
Noun classes
Agreement across the sentence.
English mixing
Urban speech mixes English.

What casting decides in Luganda

Luganda or English
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.