Awadhi voice over services

One on the books today, and we would rather tell you that at the start than at shortlist stage. Awadhi is a language we are actively recruiting for. In practice this means we treat every Awadhi brief as a casting job: you tell us the register and the audience, we go to our wider Uttar Pradesh network, and we send you bespoke auditions before you commit to anything.

They can be understood, which is not the same as being right. Standard Hindi is followed everywhere in Awadh, but it carries an official, urban register — for rural outreach it sounds like a government notice. Awadhi sounds like someone from the district. For public-health, agricultural and development content, where the audience has to trust the message and then act on it, that difference is the entire point of recording in the language at all.

No. They are neighbouring Eastern Indo-Aryan languages of the same belt and they get treated as interchangeable, but speakers hear the difference straight away. We cast natives of each, and if your campaign covers both areas we can schedule the sessions together rather than commissioning them separately.

The literary one. Awadhi is the language of Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas and of Jayasi's Padmavat, so there is a devotional register with centuries behind it that audiences recognise immediately. That is a different read from the conversational Awadhi of an outreach campaign, and it is worth telling us which one you want before we cast rather than after.

Because the Indian census returns it under Hindi, along with several other languages of the belt. That has no bearing on how it sounds or on who speaks it at home, but it does mean published speaker numbers for Awadhi are unreliable and usually far too low. It is also part of why professional Awadhi voice talent is harder to find than the size of the audience would suggest.

Not on the roster at the moment — our single Awadhi voice is male, and we would rather be straight about that now. If your project needs a female read, say so in the brief and we will go to our wider network and come back honestly about what we can arrange and in what timeframe.

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

Rural outreach and public-information campaigns, public-health and nutrition messaging, agricultural extension and cooperative content, financial-inclusion material, devotional and cultural programming, drama and documentary set in Uttar Pradesh, and eLearning for Awadhi-speaking audiences.

We follow your delivery document for the Awadhi files rather than imposing a house format: WAV or MP3, stems if you ask, at the sample rate, bit depth and loudness it specifies.

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.