Cebuano voice over services

Cebuano — which its speakers call Bisaya or Binisaya — is the language of the central Visayas, Negros, Bohol and much of Mindanao. Roughly the southern half of the Philippines runs on it.

Here is the part that makes this page different from most language pages we write. Usually the argument is that a neighbouring variety will be understood but will sound foreign. That is not the situation in the Philippines. Cebuano and Tagalog are both Austronesian and they share loanwords from Spanish and English, but they are not mutually intelligible. A campaign recorded only in Filipino does not reach a monolingual Cebuano speaker in a diluted way. It does not reach them.

Filipino, which is based on Tagalog, is the national language and is taught throughout the country, so many people in the Visayas and Mindanao do follow it. But assuming that coverage is a gamble, not a plan — and there is a real, well-documented sensitivity in the south about content produced in Manila and pushed outward. Recording in Cebuano is heard as being addressed rather than being included as an afterthought.

One small thing that signals you have done the homework: call it Bisaya. That is the word speakers use for it themselves. "Cebuano" is the term you will find in language catalogues, including ours, but it is not what people say at home.

Typical work is consumer advertising and FMCG, public-health and government information, financial services and remittance products, eLearning and training, broadcast and radio, and corporate communications for organisations with operations or customers across the Visayas and Mindanao.