Jamaican Patois voice over services

No. It is an English-lexifier creole with its own grammar. Most of the vocabulary comes from English, which is why it looks familiar written down, but plurals are marked with the particle dem rather than -s, tense and aspect are carried by preverbal particles rather than verb endings, and the copula works differently. An English speaker gets the gist and misses the detail. Writing a script in English and asking someone to read it with an accent does not produce Patois.

That is the most important thing in your brief, and it is a question of degree. Jamaica has a post-creole continuum running from broad Patois to Jamaican Standard English, and most commercial work sits somewhere in the middle. Broad Patois can narrow your audience and, from a brand, can read as caricature; Standard English sounds foreign for content meant to feel local. Tell us the audience and the tone and we will place the read.

We agree a convention before we start and keep it consistent. There is a formal orthography — the Cassidy-JLU system — but it is rarely used outside academic contexts, and most audiences are more used to English-based spellings. Which one suits depends on who is reading, so we settle it at adaptation stage rather than letting it drift across the file.

For the Jamaican diaspora, yes, and it is often exactly the right choice. Diaspora audiences generally use a somewhat different register from speakers on the island, so tell us where the audience is and we will take it into account. If the content also needs to reach a general UK or US audience, that usually means a second version rather than trying to make one read serve both.

Small — one voice on the books at the moment, and we are actively recruiting. We would rather tell you now than at shortlist stage. If your brief needs more range, we go to our wider network in Jamaica and the UK diaspora and come back with bespoke auditions.

Not on the roster at the moment — our current Patois 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.

Yes — our Patois voice is London-based, so an in-person session in our studios is a real option, subject to availability. That is genuinely useful here, because register is the thing most worth adjusting live. Otherwise you can direct over Source-Connect, Zoom or Teams.

Advertising and consumer campaigns, broadcast and radio, drama and character work, music and entertainment, documentary, and community and public-health messaging aimed at Jamaican audiences at home and in the diaspora.

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.