Azerbaijani (Azeri) voice over services

We cast them to order rather than listing demos, because we are still building the Azerbaijani roster and we would rather say that than show you a thin page of samples. In practice you send us the brief, we go to our vetted network of native speakers, and we come back with auditions recorded against your actual script. You hear real options before you commit to anything.

It depends entirely on the market. The Republic of Azerbaijan uses the Latin alphabet. Azerbaijani speakers in north-western Iran use the Perso-Arabic script, which reads right to left. The spoken recording is the same either way, but the two need different fonts, different reading direction and a different layout, so it is worth deciding before the graphics are built rather than after.

They will be broadly understood and they will sound Turkish. Azerbaijani and Turkish are close Oghuz languages, which is why the substitution keeps getting suggested, but Azerbaijani carries Russian and Persian loan vocabulary Turkish does not, and a Baku listener spots an Istanbul reader almost immediately. For advertising, safety training or anything a customer has to trust, cast Azerbaijani.

Azerbaijani was written in the Perso-Arabic script until 1929, moved to Latin, then to Cyrillic in 1939, then back to Latin after independence in 1991. That matters practically rather than historically: archive footage, legacy documents and older signage may all be in a script your current audience no longer reads, so if your project reuses existing material it is worth checking what it is written in before you assume it can be dropped in.

It is a schwa, a standard letter of the Azerbaijani Latin alphabet alongside ç, ğ, ı, ö, ş and ü. Systems and fonts that were only ever tested on English tend to drop or mangle it, which turns correct copy into nonsense without anyone noticing. We check rendering on delivery, and it is worth testing your own templates with a real Azerbaijani string early on.

Longer than for a language we hold a deep roster in, so tell us early. Because we source against the brief rather than from a shelf, the lead time is what buys you a properly auditioned shortlist. Your project manager will give you a realistic date at the start rather than an optimistic one.

Yes, with native Azerbaijani linguists, and we would deliver it in the script system your market uses rather than converting at the end. For energy and safety content we would also suggest agreeing terminology up front, since the wording has to stay consistent across a module set and, in safety material, has to be unambiguous.

Oil, gas and energy content, banking and financial services, corporate and workplace safety training, government and public-information material, broadcast and consumer advertising, eLearning, and internal communications for organisations operating in the Caspian region.

Your Azerbaijani 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.