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.

Your Jamaican Patois audio is delivered to your specification: uncompressed WAV, MP3 where size matters, stems where the mix happens elsewhere, at the LUFS target you set.

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.