Icelandic voice over services

Because Icelandic coins its own rather than borrowing. A computer is a tölva, a telephone a sími, a helicopter a þyrla — built from old Norse roots rather than adopted from English. If your source translation left terms in English, a native linguist will replace them, and that is the correct outcome: leaving them in reads as careless to an Icelandic audience even though it would pass unnoticed in Danish or Dutch.

You would be understood in English, so it is a genuine choice rather than a necessity. What tips it is that Iceland is a small market where foreign brands routinely do not bother, so the ones that do stand out disproportionately. If the content is meant to build trust or a long-term relationship rather than just convey information, Icelandic tends to be worth it.

No, and this is one of the few languages where we can say that without qualification. Icelandic has very little regional variation compared with most languages, so there is no dialect decision to make. Choose your voice on tone, warmth and delivery, and we will direct for the register the content needs.

No. They are related North Germanic languages but not mutually intelligible in any useful sense — Icelandic kept grammatical features and sounds the mainland Scandinavian languages lost, including letters they no longer use. We cast native Icelandic speakers.

Yes, with native Icelandic linguists, and we treat the terminology as a distinct step rather than assuming it comes free with the translation. Tell us the sector and we will match the established vocabulary for it, which for technical, medical and financial content is usually more settled than clients expect.

Roughly, with some room needed. Icelandic compound words and case endings tend to run a little longer than English, though nothing like the expansion you see in Bantu languages. We flag anything tight at translation stage so the read does not have to be rushed.

Corporate video and internal communications, eLearning and compliance training, advertising aimed at the Icelandic market, tourism and destination content, safety and public-information material, documentary narration, and broadcast and app content for Icelandic users.

Most short Icelandic projects are delivered within 24 to 48 hours; if a terminology pass is needed first we will say so up front and build it into the schedule. Longer or multi-voice work is scheduled with your dedicated project manager.

Delivered as the destination requires — WAV, MP3 or stems — at the loudness your broadcaster has specified.

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.