New Zealand English voice over

We would advise against it, and New Zealand clients rarely ask twice. The short vowels differ audibly — the KIT vowel is centralised in New Zealand English while DRESS and TRAP are raised — and both audiences place the other immediately. It is the difference between a campaign that sounds local and one that sounds imported.

We ask you to flag them at brief stage, along with any client-preferred pronunciation. Māori is an official language of New Zealand and its vocabulary is part of everyday New Zealand English, and pronunciation has moved firmly away from anglicised readings. A native New Zealand voice handles this as a matter of course; a voice from another English market usually does not.

Māori English is a distinct variety spoken within New Zealand, with its own intonation patterns including the high rising terminal, sentence-final "eh" and a fronted GOOSE vowel. If your content is aimed at Māori audiences it is worth requesting specifically rather than assuming a general New Zealand read covers it.

Far fewer than in the UK. New Zealand English is unusually consistent across the country, and the one clear regional marker is the Southland burr in the far south, where the accent is rhotic. Unless your content is tied to Southland or Otago, a general New Zealand read works nationwide.

Yes — the library above is the place to start, with commercial, narration and radio demos you can play without signing up for anything. For a specific age, gender or read style we also cast to brief from our network of native New Zealand voice actors. Send us the script and we will reply with a shortlist.

Yes. Copy written for the UK, US or Australian market usually needs work before it sounds native — spelling, idiom, cultural reference and te reo usage all shift. We can adapt it before recording so the read does not have to paper over wording that was never meant for this audience.

Advertising and brand campaigns for the New Zealand market, corporate and internal communication for organisations with New Zealand operations, e-learning, tourism and visitor content, IVR and phone systems, and broadcast and documentary narration.

Most short projects are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Time zones work in your favour more often than not — a script approved at the end of a London day can be recorded overnight.

WAV, MP3 or stems to broadcast standard, matched to your platform's numbers. Include the delivery spec with the brief.

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.