Amharic voice over services

Yes, and this is the single most common thing we catch. Ethiopia uses its own calendar, with thirteen months and a gap of roughly seven to eight years against the Gregorian one. A date read across unchanged names a different day. We go through the script and flag every date, deadline and campaign window before we book the session, and convert them with the translation rather than after it.

It does, whenever your script mentions a time. Ethiopian time counts the twelve hours of the day from dawn, so what is called three o'clock locally is nine in the morning by your clock. Opening hours, helpline availability, broadcast slots and appointment times all need converting, or the audio is fluent and the information sends people to the wrong place.

No, and this catches out teams who have done Arabic or Hebrew before. Amharic is a Semitic language, but it is written in the Ge'ez script and reads left to right. What your subtitles and on-screen graphics need is a font that renders the fidel correctly, not a right-to-left layout.

No, and we would rather say so up front. Amharic is the federal working language and reaches a very large audience, but Oromo has more native speakers and Tigrinya serves the north. If your campaign is national, tell us the regions and audiences you need and we will come back honestly about what we can cast, what we would need to source, and what that changes about the timeline.

Small, and we would rather you heard that from us. We have a handful of native Amharic voices on the books at the moment and we are actively growing the roster. If the brief needs more range than the library shows, we go to our wider Ethiopian network and come back with bespoke auditions rather than pushing you towards a voice that nearly fits.

Yes, and for Amharic that is how it usually works — our talent records through our global network rather than in our London studios. You can direct live over Source-Connect, Zoom or Teams, so you hear takes as they happen and can adjust the read on the spot.

Yes, with native Amharic linguists, and it is worth doing the translation and the voice over together. Public-health and humanitarian material in particular needs terminology agreed in advance so it stays consistent across a campaign, and the date and time conversions belong in the translation stage rather than being patched in the booth.

Humanitarian and NGO communications, public-health and nutrition campaigns, agricultural and development content, eLearning and training, government and civic information, broadcast and diaspora media, and corporate video for organisations operating in Ethiopia.

Your Amharic audio is delivered to your specification: uncompressed WAV, MP3 where size matters, stems where the mix happens elsewhere, at the LUFS target you set.

Less than people expect: the script, or the draft of it, its total running time or word count, where the recording will be used, and the date you need it by. If the script is not signed off yet, send the draft anyway — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.