Arabic voice over services

It depends on the market. The Gulf and the Levant use the Eastern Arabic-Indic digits; Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia use the Western ones. A script carrying the wrong set looks foreign, and one that mixes them is worse — and it matters most in prices, dates and phone numbers a listener has to act on. Tell us the region and we will set them correctly.

Not automatically. Arabic runs right to left while Latin brand names, product codes and figures run left to right, so they have to be positioned explicitly. Systems that assume a left-to-right world reverse them into nonsense, and it survives to delivery because nobody reviewing reads Arabic. We check it on your target platform.

Yes — GoLocalise is a full-service Arabic voice over agency. Send us your script and we'll shortlist native Arabic voice actors, then handle casting, recording, editing and delivery in-house. Our Arabic voice over services cover commercials, corporate, e-learning, IVR and more — with a free, itemised quote backed by our Price Match Promise.

It depends on your audience. Modern Standard Arabic is understood across the entire Arabic-speaking world and suits pan-regional or formal content, while a regional dialect (like Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine or Maghrebi) connects more directly with a specific country or area. We advise on the right fit before anything is recorded.

Modern Standard Arabic is the shared written and formal spoken register used in media, education and official communication across the Arab world. Regional dialects carry the everyday accent, slang and cultural nuance of a specific country, and can differ from each other enough that speakers from distant regions sometimes struggle to follow one another. For customer-facing content, we generally recommend casting talent from the region you are targeting.

Most short projects are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Turnaround depends on script length and talent availability, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start of the project.

Arabic pricing starts with a question no rate card can answer: Modern Standard, or a dialect? MSA is understood everywhere and spoken natively nowhere, which makes it right for news, government and corporate material and wrong for anything that needs warmth. Egyptian carries furthest for entertainment; Gulf, Levantine and Maghrebi each belong to their own market. That decision changes the number more than the word count does. After it, the quote is a session fee plus a usage licence, itemised, with our Price Match Promise.

Send the script and tell us which countries you are buying media in. We will say whether Modern Standard serves you or whether the campaign needs a dialect, shortlist accordingly, and run the session from London or through the network with one project manager on it.

Gulf corporate and financial communications, government and public-information campaigns, eLearning for regional workforces, hospitality and aviation content, broadcast advertising, documentary narration, and IVR. Also a steady flow of humanitarian material, where the register matters more than the polish.

Yes — and in Arabic the on-screen text is its own project. The script runs right to left, so subtitle positioning, lower thirds and any graphic containing words have to be laid out that way from the start rather than mirrored at the end. We build it that way and flag artwork that will not survive the flip.

Arabic is a diglossic language: the written standard and the language people actually speak at home are not the same thing, and no other language we handle asks a client to make that choice so early. Since 2008 we have cast it across the Gulf, the Levant, Egypt and the Maghreb, with a native director in every session to keep the register consistent from the first line to the last.

Yes. Browse our Arabic voice actors and listen to their demos, or send your script and we will shortlist voices and provide sample reads, so you can choose the perfect Arabic voice over before you commit.

We deliver Arabic voice over in whatever format you need — WAV, MP3, AIFF and more — at broadcast specifications, as separate files or a single mix, ready to drop straight into your project.

Arabic is in constant demand across the Gulf's high-value categories — government, banking, telecom, aviation and luxury — as well as pan-Arab broadcast and entertainment led by Egypt, and public-health and NGO campaigns across the region. We match the dialect and register to the sector, from formal Modern Standard to a warmer Gulf, Egyptian or Levantine read.

Yes. Modern Standard Arabic suits official, corporate and pan-regional content that needs to be understood everywhere, while a dialect brings the warmth and familiarity that advertising and entertainment rely on. For broad campaigns we often pair an MSA version with a dialect read, and we'll advise on the right mix for your audience.

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.