Gagana Sāmoa

Samoan voice-over

Native Samoan 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 Samoan 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.

Samoan voices

No public Samoan 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 Samoan voices reading them.

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What Samoan voice-over is hired for

Samoa and American Samoa
The home islands.
New Zealand, Australia and the US
Large communities live abroad.
Health and church communications
Agencies and churches publish audio.

Typical projects

Health agencies
Public bodies
Community and church organisations
Banks and remittance services

Samoan in a voice-over brief

Samoan has a formal register used for chiefs and ceremony and an everyday register used in homes and shops. It is written in Latin letters with the glottal stop and macron marking sounds. Large Samoan communities live in New Zealand, Australia and the United States, so references may differ from those in Samoa. Health information and church communications are common uses. We ask which register is wanted, where the audience lives and how names should be said, then a native reviewer checks the script.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Samoan session.

Formal and everyday registers
Samoan has respect language for chiefs and elders.
The glottal stop
The stop and macron mark sounds.
Names
Names have set spoken forms.

What casting decides in Samoan

Samoa or the diaspora
References differ.
Register
Formal notices differ from ads.

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.