Affordable Ethnic Voice Over TalentEthnic Voice Over Talent for Radio & TV-Commercial Jingles - E-Learning Narration - Station Imaging & Original Music for New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Tampa, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Detroit, Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio, Toronto, Vancouver, Singapore, India, Ireland , and around the globe. |
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you require an Ethnic voice over talent other then English I can provide
that as well. Translation services are also available. Voice talents with (*) indicates they have their own Recording Studio. |
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Afrikaans is a language spoken in South
Africa, Namibia, and other parts of Southern Africa. It is derived from
Dutch as the Dutch settlers landed in South Africa in the 1600's. Afrikaans
is also used as a "novelty" for advertising in Dutch speaking
countries on occasion. |
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Gikuyu (sometimes written Kikuyu, pronounced
and 'proper' spelling Gikuyu) is a language in the Central Bantu branch
of the Niger-Congo family spoken primarily by the Kikuyu people of Kenya.
The Gikuyu people are the largest ethnic group in Kenya (approximately
22% of Kenya's population). Gikuyu has four main mutually intelligible
dialects. Gikuyu is one of the five languages of the Thagichu subgroup
of the Bantu languages that stretches from Kenya to Tanzania. The Gikuyu
people usually identify their lands by the surrounding mountain ranges
in Central Kenya which they call Kirinyaga or 'the shining mountain'. |
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Kiswahili (or Swahili) is an African language
( it is a mix of about 25% Arabic language and 75% Bantu language) spoken
mainly by the people of eastern and central Africa. That is, people who
live in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Malawi, northern
Mozambigue, Zambia and Somali Republic, Congo Brazavile, Sudan, the Comoro
Islands, Mayotte the northern part of Malagasy Republic, and the Persian
Gulf states. Kiswahili is a national language in Kenya, Tanzania, Congo
(DRC) and Uganda and is the only official African language of the African
Union. |
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| The Arabic language
is spoken in many regions of the world, from North Africa to the Middle
East, and the dialects differ greatly. However, all Arabic speakers are
able to speak Modern Standard Arabic, which is the official language of
the Arab World. It is used in present-day media including television,
radio, and all written matter like newspapers, books, magazines and official
documents. |
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| If your commercial,
corporate video or documentary will air in Mainland China and/or Taiwan,
you'll want to record in Mandarin. If it will air in
Hong Kong, you'll likely want to record in Cantonese.
After 1997, some people in Hong Kong started to learn Mandarin because
of political factors but Cantonese is still by far the most commonly spoken
language there. |
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Finnish is the official
language of Finland, located by the Scandinavian countries in Northern
Europe. Finnish is spoken by the 5.3 million Finns living in Finland and
roughly 1 million living abroad. |
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| By French European,
we refer to the French that is spoken in France and other parts of Europe.
If your commercial or video is geared towards the European market, this
page is where you want to be. All the talents below, while living in Canada,
either grew up in Europe or learned to speak French the European way. |
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| High German is spoken
throughout the German speaking areas of the world : Austria, Germany,
parts of Switzerland, Liechtenstein and parts of Luxembourg. Of course,
in all of these areas, there are dialects, but all German speakers are
able to speak High German. |
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| There are no noticeable
variations of Greek - the spoken language is consistent throughout the
country. This is one instance where we hope it is indeed all Greek to
you. |
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Although India has many
ethnic dialects, Hindi is the national language and it will be understood
everywhere in India. |
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| The good news is...Italian
is Italian! It's not about regional dialects or accents that only some
people in a region can understand. If someone speaks Italian, everyone
in all of Italy understands them! |
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| Although the Japanese
language can very slightly in writing depending on the region, the spoken
language is consistent throughout the country. If someone speaks Japanese,
everyone in Japan understands them! |
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The Korean language
is consistent throughout the country. If someone speaks Korean, everyone
in Korea understands them! |
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| Norwegian
is spoken by 4,5 million inhabitants, and the language can be divided
into bokmaal and neo-norse, and different dialects. The most neutral way
of presenting any text/script would be in Normated Bokmaal, the standard of most broadcasters. |
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Polish (jezyk polski)
is the official language of Poland and originated from several local Western
Slavic dialects, most notably those spoken in Greater Poland (Wielkopolska)
and Lesser Poland (Malopolska). It shares some vocabulary with the languages
of the neighboring Slavic nations, most notably with Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian,
and Belarusian. "Standard" Polish is still spoken somewhat differently in different regions of the country, although the differences between these broad "dialects" are slight. |
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| Portuguese is spoken
in various parts of the world, but most notably, Brazil and of course
Portugal. The language they speak in those two countries is exactly the
same but the accents are different. Let us know if your project is aimed
at the Brazilian market or to people in Portugal, and we'll find the right
voice for you. |
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Romanian is the Latin
language spoken by almost 30 million people from Romania, Republic of
Moldova but also form all around the world where are Romanians (Spain,
Italy, US, Portugal etc) and is also one of the languages of The European Union.
If your script will be recorded for a certain area of Romania, please let us know. Small differences in accent will be adjused to accomodate that area of Romania. |
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| In terms of Russian dialects
- there are some, however, they are not that far apart from each other.
In the different regions you can hear some distinctive words that would
not be used in other regions but any Russian native speaker will definitely
understand those words anyway. So, in short - Russian is Russian.
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| Spanish is spoken by
300 million people worldwide and that means there are differences. Basically
it's like the difference that exists between British English and American
English. So the question becomes, in what country will your commercial, corporate video or documentary play? If it's Mexico then a Mexican accent is preferable, ditto for Argentina and Spain. Other Latin countries are not as exacting, provided you never give them a Mexican voice outside of Mexico! What is considered to be a "standard Latin American accent" (one that minimizes regionalisms) is acceptable to all south and Central American countries and is a safe way to go if you don't know the final destination of the product, or if it is aimed at the entire South American market. |
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Sweden is located on
the scandinavian peninsula in northern Europe. The swedish language is
closely related to norwegian and danish. It is used by approx. 10.000.000
people. Swedish is also spoken in the western parts of Finland. There
are many different dialects. However, in commercials and corporate narrations,
standard swedish is used, without any dialect. There are no polar bears
on the streets. |
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| Pronunciation of Turkish
words is phonetic with all letters having the same value in every situation.
The Turkish alphabet contains all the letters of the English alphabet
except for q, x, and w. In general, most letters are pronounced about
the same as in English with a few exceptions. The standard educated Turkish
is that spoken in Istanbul. The Istanbul Turkish is considered nice, gentle,
accentless and rich. Turkey is a big country with 7 different regions,
where there are different dialects. It goes without saying that the Turkish
spoken in Istanbul, alias the Turkish of the educated, can be understood
easily by anyone in Turkey regardless of his/her region while it may be
a bit difficult when it is the other way round. The official parlance
no matter what the domain may be prefers the Istanbul Turkish. |
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Ukrainian is the official language of
Ukraine today. Only a few years ago almost all Ukrainian people spoke
Russian as well, but today, if you need something done for Ukrainian mass
media, you have to translate and record everything into Ukrainian. There
are a few dialects in the language (Poltavian, Karpatian,ets) , but for
radio, TV or dubbing the classical pronunciation is appreciated. |
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