Voice Over · Basque
Basque voice over services
Native Basque voice over for institutional, broadcast, corporate and cultural content. Euskara Batua for public-facing work, and the Spanish version timed to match — because in the Basque Country the two almost always ship together.
Batua
The standard that goes on air
1968
Year the standard was set
On request
Native casting
How it works
No public Basque demos yet — here's how we cast
We don't list Basque samples on the site, because we are still building that roster. It does not slow your project down: we source native speakers against your brief and send auditions recorded for your script rather than generic reels.
Send us your brief
Tell us whether this is institutional or character work, whether there is a Spanish version it has to sit alongside, and any reference voices you have in mind.
We source and audition
We go to our vetted network of native Basque speakers, brief them on register — Batua or regional — and come back with tailored auditions.
Record and deliver
You pick the voice; we direct the session, check the read against picture and timings, and deliver broadcast-ready audio in your spec.
Calling Basque voice talent
We're expanding our Basque roster
Basque is a language we're actively growing. If you're a Basque voice actor, we'd love to hear your demos and put you forward for paid work.
About the language
The Basque version usually has to fit the Spanish one
Basque — euskara — is co-official with Spanish in the Basque Autonomous Community and in the Basque-speaking part of Navarre, and is spoken across the border in the French Basque Country, where it has no official status. It is a language isolate: not Indo-European, and unrelated to Spanish, French or anything else still spoken.
That last fact is the one everybody leads with, and it is not the one that decides your project. This is the one that does: because Basque is co-official, public administration, health, education and public broadcasting produce everything in two languages. So the brief is very rarely "a voice over in Basque". It is the Basque version of something that also exists in Spanish, and the two have to line up — same duration, same sync points, same on-screen text positions.
Which runs straight into the technical problem worth planning for. Basque is agglutinative and orders its sentences differently, so it runs long against Spanish. If the picture was cut tight to the Spanish track, the Basque read will not fit, and no amount of pace in the booth fixes that honestly. It is solved at adaptation, by writing to the timing — which is a different job from translating and then hoping.
The second decision is register, and it is easy to get badly wrong. Euskara Batua is the unified standard developed by Euskaltzaindia, the Basque language academy, from 1968 onwards. It is what schools, government and broadcasters use, and it is what any institutional or public-facing piece should be recorded in. The regional varieties — Bizkaian, Gipuzkoan and the continental dialects — belong in drama, character work and campaigns with a deliberately local address. A strongly marked dialect in a government announcement does not read as authentic; it reads as a joke.
Typical work is institutional and public-information campaigns, health and education material, broadcast and documentary narration, museum and cultural interpretation, corporate video for companies operating in the region, and eLearning delivered bilingually.
Getting Basque right
What to know before you record
Most Basque projects are decided by two things: register, and how the Basque track has to sit against the Spanish one.
Batua for anything institutional
The unified standard is what audiences expect from government, health, education and broadcast. Save the regional varieties for drama and character.
Expect it to run long
Basque is agglutinative and orders sentences differently, so it expands against Spanish. We flag the timing at adaptation rather than asking a voice actor to rush.
Plan the bilingual pair together
If the Spanish and Basque versions ship as a set, commissioning them together is cheaper and avoids the Basque track being forced into a cut it was never written for.
Basque is not a Spanish dialect
It is a language isolate with no relation to Spanish at all. A Spanish speaker gets nothing from it, so nothing about the audience can be assumed from the Spanish version.
How we can help
One partner for the whole bilingual deliverable
Voice over & narration
Native Basque for institutional and public-information content, broadcast and documentary, cultural interpretation and corporate video — in Batua or a regional read, as the brief requires.
Translation & script adaptation
Adaptation into Basque by native linguists, written to the timing rather than translated and then squeezed. If you need the Spanish version too, we build the pair together.
Subtitling & captions
Basque subtitles and captions alongside the recording, with the reading-speed limits respected even where the text expands.
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Content types
Basque voice over for every kind of content
Whatever you're making, we cast the right voice in Basque. Explore by use case.
Most common questions
We cast them to order rather than listing demos, because we are still building the Basque roster and we would rather tell you that than show you a thin page of samples. 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, so you hear real options before committing.
Complete your bilingual deliverable
Services that pair with Basque
Basque that fits the cut it has to live in
Send us the script and the Spanish version and we'll tell you where the timings will bite — with a free, no-obligation quote.
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