Soomaali

Somali voice-over

Native Somali 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 Somali 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.

Somali voices

No public Somali 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 Somali voices reading them.

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What Somali voice-over is hired for

Somalia and Somaliland
The core area.
Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti
Communities across the Horn.
The diaspora
Communities in the UK, the Nordic countries and North America.

Typical projects

NGOs and aid bodies
Telecoms and money transfer
Media producers
Public bodies

Somali in a voice-over brief

Somali is written in Latin letters using an alphabet adopted in 1972. It has a strong oral tradition of poetry, and radio and the spoken word remain important to audiences. Northern and southern varieties differ, and diaspora communities in Europe and North America use some borrowed words. A recorded read should be warm and measured rather than rapid. In the brief we ask where the audience lives, the medium and the register, and whether Arabic or English versions will be recorded as well.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Somali session.

Latin script
Somali uses a Latin alphabet.
Oral tradition
Poetry and radio shape expectations of delivery.
Regional speech
Northern and southern speech differ.

What casting decides in Somali

Home or diaspora
References differ.
Register
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.