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Voice Over · Galician

Galician voice over services

Native Galician voice over for institutional and public-information content, broadcast, corporate video and cultural material. Related to Portuguese, and audibly not the same thing — a Lisbon read is understood in Galicia and heard as foreign.

Shared

Medieval origin with Portuguese

RAG

Sets the written standard

48h

Delivery

Native Galician speakers only
Broadcast-quality studios
Cast & auditioned to your brief
Dedicated project manager
Trusted by global brands
Native Galician speakers only
Broadcast-quality studios
Cast & auditioned to your brief
Dedicated project manager
Trusted by global brands

Calling Galician voice talent

We're expanding our Galician roster

Galician is a language we're actively growing. If you're a Galician voice actor, we'd love to hear your demos and put you forward for paid work.

Join our roster

About the language

Yes, it's close to Portuguese. No, a Portuguese voice won't do.

This is the question on almost every Galician brief, and it comes from something true. Galician and Portuguese share an origin — medieval Galician-Portuguese — and a Galician reader follows written Portuguese with little difficulty. From the page, they look like close cousins.

From the speaker, they are not. The phonetics diverged sharply. European Portuguese reduces and elides its unstressed vowels to a degree Galician does not share; Galician keeps a vowel system much closer to Spanish. That single difference is enough that a Lisbon read is placed as Portuguese within a sentence — understood, and audibly from somewhere else.

There are also markers that belong to Galician and to nowhere else. Gheada — the *g* realised as an aspirate across much of western Galicia — and seseo are the most recognisable. Both are regional features inside Galicia rather than part of the standard, which is where the second casting decision comes in.

That decision is standard or regional. The normative standard set by the Real Academia Galega is what administration, education and the public broadcaster CRTVG use, and it is what any institutional or public-facing piece should be recorded in. Gheada and seseo belong to specific areas and work for character, fiction or a deliberately local campaign — in a government announcement they read as regional colour rather than as authority.

Typical work is institutional and public-information campaigns, broadcast and documentary, health and education material, museum and cultural interpretation, corporate video for companies operating in Galicia, and eLearning delivered bilingually.

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Getting Galician right

What to know before you record

Two decisions, and the first one is the reason most people find this page.

Portuguese is close and audibly different

Shared origin, diverged phonetics. European Portuguese reduces unstressed vowels far more; Galician's vowel system sits nearer Spanish. Listeners place it immediately.

Standard for anything institutional

The Real Academia Galega norm is what administration, schools and CRTVG use. It is what public-facing content should sound like.

Gheada and seseo are regional

Strong, recognisable markers from specific areas. Right for character and local campaigns, wrong for a national institutional read.

Usually one half of a pair

Galician is co-official with Spanish, so much of this work ships alongside a Spanish version. Commissioning both together keeps the timings aligned.

How we can help

One partner for the whole Galicia job

1

Voice over & narration

Native Galician for institutional and public-information content, broadcast and documentary, cultural interpretation and corporate video — in the standard or a regional read, as the brief requires.

2

Translation & script adaptation

Galician adaptation by native linguists, not Portuguese or Spanish copy lightly adjusted. If the piece ships bilingually, we build the pair together.

3

Subtitling & captions

Galician subtitles and captions alongside the recording, so the on-screen text matches the read.

100+ languages under one roof

London studios + global talent network

4.9★ from 149 reviews

Content types

Galician voice over for every kind of content

Whatever you're making, we cast the right voice in Galician. Explore by use case.

Most common questions

Can a Portuguese voice actor cover Galician?

No, though the question is a fair one. Galician and Portuguese share a medieval origin and a Galician reader follows written Portuguese comfortably. But the phonetics diverged: European Portuguese reduces and elides unstressed vowels far more than Galician does, and Galician's vowel system sits much closer to Spanish. A listener in Galicia places a Lisbon read as Portuguese within a sentence. Understood, and clearly from somewhere else.

Should we record in the standard or with gheada and seseo?

The standard, for anything institutional or public-facing. The norm set by the Real Academia Galega is what administration, education and the CRTVG broadcaster use, and it is what audiences expect from that kind of content. Gheada and seseo are strong regional markers from specific parts of Galicia — excellent for character work, fiction or a deliberately local campaign, and out of place in a government announcement.

Can a Spanish voice actor cover Galician?

No. Galician is a separate Romance language, not an accent of Spanish, and while nearly all Galician speakers are bilingual that is a fact about people rather than about the languages. A Spanish read is immediately recognisable as Spanish. If your content ships in both, we record each with its own native talent and can schedule the sessions together.

Do you deliver the Spanish version alongside it?

Yes, and it is usually the sensible way to do it. Galician is co-official with Spanish in Galicia, so most of the work we see is one half of a bilingual deliverable. Commissioning the pair together lets us adapt both to the same picture, keep the sync points aligned and hold terminology consistent, and it generally costs less than treating them as separate projects.

How big is your Galician roster?

Small — one voice on the books at the moment, and we are actively recruiting. We would rather tell you now than at shortlist stage. In practice we treat every Galician brief as a casting job: you give us the register and the audience, we go to our wider network in Galicia, and we come back with bespoke auditions.

Do you have male Galician voices?

Not on the roster at the moment — our current Galician voice is female. If your project needs a male read, say so when you brief us and we will go to our wider network and come back honestly about what we can arrange and in what timeframe.

Can I direct the session remotely?

Yes, and for Galician that is the arrangement — our talent records through our global network rather than in our London studios. You can direct live over Source-Connect, Zoom or Teams, so you hear takes as they happen and can adjust on the spot.

What do you use Galician voice over for?

Institutional and public-information campaigns, broadcast and documentary narration, health and education material, museum and cultural interpretation, corporate video for companies operating in Galicia, eLearning delivered bilingually, and accessibility work such as audio description.

What audio formats and specs do you deliver?

Whatever your project needs — broadcast-standard WAV, MP3 or split stems, at the sample rate, bit depth and loudness (LUFS) you specify. Share your delivery spec and we'll match it.

Galician that sounds like Galicia, not like Lisbon

Tell us the register and whether a Spanish version ships with it — with a free, no-obligation quote.

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