Basque voice over services

Basque is a language isolate — it is not related to Spanish, to French, or to any other living language on earth, and it was spoken in these valleys before Indo-European arrived in Europe. That has a practical consequence for casting: a translator or voice actor with good Spanish gives you nothing here, because there is nothing to transfer. Every Basque booking is sourced from genuine native speakers and auditioned on your own script.

Batua for anything institutional, public-facing or broadcast. Euskara Batua is the unified standard set by Euskaltzaindia from 1968 and used in schools, government and the media, so it is what audiences expect from that kind of content. Regional varieties like Bizkaian or Gipuzkoan are the right choice for drama, character work and deliberately local campaigns, where a marked accent is the point.

Not automatically, and this is the most common problem we see. Basque is agglutinative and orders sentences differently, so the same content runs longer than in Spanish. If your picture was cut tight to the Spanish track, we handle it at adaptation by writing to the available time rather than asking the voice actor to speed up. Send us the Spanish version and the picture and we will tell you before you book where the pressure points are.

No. Basque is a language isolate — it is not related to Spanish, or to French, or to any other living language. Speaking Spanish gives you no access to it whatsoever. Many Basque speakers are bilingual, but that is a fact about people, not about the languages, and it does not make one substitutable for the other.

Yes, and it is usually the better way to do it. Most Basque work we take on is one half of a bilingual deliverable, so commissioning the pair together lets us adapt both to the same picture, keep the sync points aligned and keep terminology consistent across the two. It also tends to cost less than treating them as separate projects.

Basque is spoken there too, though it has no official status on the French side and the continental dialects differ from those spoken in Spain. If your content is aimed at that audience specifically, tell us and we will take it into account when we source. For most institutional and commercial work the Batua standard is what you want.

Allow extra time. With around 750,000 speakers, most of them bilingual in Spanish or French, the pool of people who work professionally in Basque rather than in Spanish is genuinely narrow. Brief us early and we will name a date we can hold.

Institutional and public-information campaigns, health and education material, broadcast and documentary narration, museum and cultural interpretation, corporate video for companies operating in the Basque Country, eLearning delivered bilingually, and accessibility work such as audio description.

Delivered however your spec sheet says: masters or compressed, stems or a mix, at your loudness target.

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.