Burmese voice over services

Almost certainly an encoding mismatch between Zawgyi and Unicode. For years Myanmar used Zawgyi, a non-standard encoding that occupies the same code points as Unicode but maps them to different shapes, so a file made in one and opened in the other renders as nonsense rather than as slightly-wrong text. The fix is to re-deliver in Unicode and have a native speaker confirm it in the actual player.

It is a legacy Burmese encoding that became the de facto standard in Myanmar before the country migrated to Unicode, and it is still in circulation on older content and devices. You should worry about it to exactly this extent: specify Unicode in your brief and make sure someone who reads Burmese checks the final file. Software cannot detect the difference reliably, because both look like valid Burmese text.

No. Burmese is Sino-Tibetan and unrelated to Thai; it is a separate language from Chinese with its own script, tone system and aspiration contrasts. We cast native Burmese speakers. If your campaign spans several Southeast Asian languages we record each with its own talent and schedule the sessions together.

It depends on the content. Literary Burmese is what news bulletins, official material and formal education use; spoken Burmese is what a conversational or community-facing piece needs. Tell us the audience and use case and we will recommend one and direct for it.

Yes, with native Burmese linguists, delivered in Unicode as standard. For public-health and safety material we would also suggest a terminology pass up front, since the accepted wording matters more than usual when the audience is meant to act on it.

Yes, and for Burmese we would recommend it rather than splitting the job. The encoding risk lives in the text side, so keeping the subtitles, captions and any on-screen graphics with the same team that recorded the audio means one native speaker signs off on the whole delivery.

NGO and development communications, public-health and safety campaigns, eLearning, civic and government information, corporate video and internal communications, documentary narration, and broadcast and diaspora media.

Most short Burmese projects are delivered within 24 to 48 hours; longer or multi-voice work is scheduled with your dedicated project manager, who confirms a firm date up front. The time difference is handled at our end.

Your Burmese 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.