Taiwanese Mandarin voice over services

Not without it being noticed. Taiwanese Mandarin lacks the erhua retroflex ending typical of northern Mainland speech, its intonation is softer, and a good deal of everyday vocabulary differs — which is the register most corporate and eLearning scripts live in. A Taiwanese audience places a Mainland reader within a sentence. We cast native Taiwanese speakers and keep a separate roster for Mainland Mandarin.

Traditional for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao; Simplified for the Mainland and Singapore. They are different character forms rather than different fonts, so this is not something that can be swapped late. Simplified subtitles shown to a Taiwanese audience are harder to read and, more importantly, mark the content as produced for somewhere else. Settle it before any on-screen text is designed.

Conversion gets you most of the way and then leaves the errors that matter. Some Simplified characters map to more than one Traditional character depending on meaning, and vocabulary differences survive conversion untouched — the text ends up technically Traditional but still reading as Mainland copy. We have a native Taiwanese linguist adapt it rather than relying on the conversion alone.

Not currently. Taiwanese Hokkien is a separate language rather than a variety of Mandarin, and we do not hold Hokkien talent, so we would rather say so than approximate it. This page covers Mandarin as spoken in Taiwan. If your project specifically needs Hokkien, tell us and we will come back to you honestly about what we could arrange.

Yes, three of our five. You can filter the library above for London-based talent, which also makes attended sessions in our Central London studios straightforward if you want to direct in the room rather than over a link.

If both markets matter, yes, and scheduling them together is cheaper than commissioning them separately. What we would not recommend is producing one and stretching it to cover both — the text needs different characters and the audio needs different actors, so the saving evaporates once you account for the re-cut.

Usually with some slack. Mandarin tends to run shorter than English in syllable count, which more often leaves room than takes it — though dense technical content can go the other way. We flag anything awkward at translation stage rather than compressing the read.

Corporate video and internal communications, eLearning and compliance training, advertising aimed at the Taiwanese market, technology and semiconductor-sector content, tourism, documentary narration, and app and product localisation.

Your Taiwanese Mandarin 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.