Yorùbá

Yoruba voice-over

Native Yoruba 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 Yoruba 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.

Yoruba voices

No public Yoruba 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 Yoruba voices reading them.

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What Yoruba voice-over is hired for

South-western Nigeria
Lagos and Ibadan are the main centres.
Benin and the diaspora
Communities in Benin, the UK and the US.
Film and radio
Producers use Yoruba widely.

Typical projects

Telecoms and banks
Consumer brands
Film and media producers
NGOs

Yoruba in a voice-over brief

Yoruba is a tonal language written in Latin letters with marks that show tone and some vowel sounds. Three tones, high, mid and low, can change a word completely, so scripts with ambiguous words need marks. Proverbs and praise forms are part of everyday speech and make a natural-sounding script richer. Lagos speakers mix in English, while radio in smaller towns uses fuller Yoruba. We ask the region, the register and the treatment of English terms, and a native reviewer checks the text.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Yoruba session.

Tone marks
Three tones change meaning; scripts carry marks for ambiguous words.
Formal and colloquial
Formal speech differs from the street.
English mixing
Urban speakers mix English.

What casting decides in Yoruba

Yoruba 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.