Irish English voice over services

It depends where your audience is. The two accents differ in vowels and intonation, so this is a real choice rather than a detail: for content aimed at the Republic, an Irish accent; for Northern Ireland, a Northern Irish one. Tell us the market when you send the brief and we shortlist accordingly. If the campaign covers the island as a whole, say so and we will advise on which read travels better.

No. Irish English is English as spoken in Ireland; Irish, or Gaeilge, is a Celtic language in its own right. They need different voice actors, and we hold separate rosters for each. Briefs asking for «an Irish voice» can mean either, so it is worth confirming which you need before casting starts.

For anything customer-facing, no. An Irish audience hears an approximated accent immediately, and in advertising or drama it reads as parody rather than as local. We cast native Irish speakers and direct them for the specific accent your content needs.

Yes, and most of the roster is. You can filter the library above for London-based talent and shortlist from there, which also makes attended sessions in our Central London studios straightforward.

Lightly, but do it. Hiberno-English has its own grammar as well as its own words — an Irish speaker says «I'm after sending it» where a British one says «I've just sent it», and a press is a cupboard, not a printing house. Left alone, British copy is intelligible but audibly written elsewhere. A native reads it through before the session and flags what jars.

A great deal of it is Dublin corporate work — the EMEA headquarters of the big technology, pharmaceutical and financial-services firms sit there, and their induction, compliance and product content needs an Irish voice rather than a British one. Beyond that: Fáilte Ireland-style tourism and heritage narration, public-information campaigns, radio and television advertising for the domestic market, audiobooks by Irish authors, and drama where a character has to be Irish rather than approximately so.

A single-voice piece usually comes back the next working day. London and Dublin share a time zone, so there is no overnight gap to work around: if you approve casting in the morning, the session often happens that afternoon. Longer or multi-voice jobs get a booked date from your project manager before we start.

Yes — sit in at our London studio or join on Source-Connect, Zoom or Teams. Same time zone as Dublin, so scheduling a live session with an Irish client rarely takes more than a phone call.

Files shaped to the destination: WAV, MP3 or split stems, mastered to your broadcaster's 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.