Sesotho

Sesotho voice-over

Native Sesotho 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 Sesotho 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.

Sesotho voices

No public Sesotho 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 Sesotho voices reading them.

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What Sesotho voice-over is hired for

Lesotho
The national language.
South Africa
An official language spoken in the Free State and Gauteng.
Health and public information
Agencies publish audio.

Typical projects

Banks and telecoms
NGOs and health agencies
Public bodies
Retailers

Sesotho in a voice-over brief

Sesotho, or Southern Sotho, is a tonal Bantu language written in Latin letters and shared by Lesotho and the Free State of South Africa. Words take prefixes that agree across a clause, and a number of Sesotho names for places and people are well known abroad through music and sport. Orthography reforms in each country left small differences in spelling. When a Sesotho brief arrives we ask which side of the border the listeners are on, whether the message is formal or friendly and which English words stay, and only then confirm who is available to record.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Sesotho session.

Tonal language
Tones shape meaning.
Noun classes
Agreement across the sentence.
Local differences
Usage differs between countries.

What casting decides in Sesotho

Sesotho or English
Different audiences.
Register
Public notices are formal.

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.