Igbo voice over services

Because the script does not contain enough information to read aloud. Igbo is tonal — tone distinguishes one word from another — and ordinary written Igbo does not mark the tones. A native reader supplies what the page leaves out, from knowing the language. An automated system has to infer it, and it infers wrongly often enough that an Igbo listener spots it in the first sentence.

Igbo izugbe, the standard, was assembled from several dialects to serve as a common written and taught form, and it is the right choice for formal, institutional and educational material. Some speakers find it a touch stiff, so for advertising, drama or anything meant to feel warm and local, a regional variety often lands better. Tell us the audience and the tone and we will recommend rather than defaulting.

No. Nigeria's three major languages divide broadly by region — Igbo in the south-east, Hausa in the north, Yoruba in the south-west — with English as the official language across the country. A national campaign generally needs all three, and often English as well. We record each with its own native talent and can schedule them together, which costs less than separate commissions.

The tone problem runs in the opposite direction. Yoruba writes its tones with accent marks, and the difficulty is that fonts and systems strip them, so correct copy arrives damaged. Igbo generally does not write them at all, so the script was never unambiguous to begin with. Both end up needing a native reader who knows the word before they see it, but for different reasons.

One signed voice today, with recruitment under way. Igbo has a particular wrinkle worth knowing about: it is a tonal language with a standard literary form, Igbo izugbe, that nobody speaks natively — it was assembled from several dialects. Which means the first question on any brief is whether you want the standard, which sounds formal and official, or a regional read that sounds like a person.

Not signed at the moment; the Igbo artist on our books is male. A female read means sourcing from Nigeria, which is routine but not instant — tell us in the brief and we will give you a real lead time.

Igbo records through our Nigerian network rather than in London. Direction happens over Source-Connect, Zoom or Teams, and the one-hour offset from the UK makes scheduling easy.

Advertising and consumer campaigns, public-health and civic information, financial-inclusion and agricultural content, eLearning and training, broadcast and radio, drama and Nollywood work, and community messaging for Igbo-speaking audiences in Nigeria and the diaspora.

Whatever the platform takes for your Igbo files: WAV, MP3 or separated stems, mastered to the loudness figure you give us.

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.