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isiZulu

Zulu voice-over

Native Zulu 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 Zulu samples chosen for your script.

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Real human voices

  1. Human

    Real human voices

    Every voice is a professional actor in a booth. No synthetic voices.

  2. Native

    Their first language

    Cast from speakers who grew up with the language your audience speaks.

  3. Directed

    A director on every line

    We listen for meaning, pace and pronunciation in the session, not after it.

Zulu voices

No public Zulu 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 Zulu voices reading them.

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What Zulu voice-over is hired for

  • KwaZulu-Natal

    The home region.

  • Johannesburg and Gauteng

    A large urban audience.

  • Health and public information

    Agencies publish audio.

Typical projects

  • Banks and telecoms
  • Retailers and consumer brands
  • NGOs and health agencies
  • Public bodies

Zulu in a voice-over brief

isiZulu is a Nguni language and a language understood by many speakers of related languages in southern Africa. It has click consonants, tones, and noun classes whose prefixes agree across the sentence, so word-for-word translations rarely sound right. Urban speech in Johannesburg and Durban mixes in English and other languages, while rural radio favours a fuller, more formal form. We ask where the audience lives, how formal the message is and how English terms should be treated, then a native reviewer proofs the text.

Accent and direction notes

What our director listens for in a Zulu session.

  1. Click consonants

    Clicks need a native speaker.

  2. Noun classes

    Agreement across the sentence.

  3. Understood across related languages

    Speakers of related languages follow much of it.

What casting decides in Zulu

  • Zulu or Xhosa

    Different audiences.

  • Register

    Public notices are formal.

How we work

  1. Casting

    We shortlist voices for your language, audience and tone, and explain the difference between them. You choose, and approve a written quote.

  2. Direction

    A director runs the session against your brief: meaning, pace and every agreed pronunciation. You can listen in remotely.

  3. 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.

Zulu voice-over questions

Can you add English?

Yes.

Can a Xhosa voice read Zulu?

No; cast a native speaker.

Who reviews?

A native reviewer.

Related languages

Tell us about your Zulu project

Four questions. A draft script or a word count is enough; you get a written quote before anything is recorded.

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