Lingala voice over services

No. Lingala carries Kinshasa and the western provinces; Swahili carries the east, including Goma, Bukavu and the Lubumbashi region. There are also Kikongo and Tshiluba as national languages, alongside French as the official one. For a national campaign, Lingala and Swahili together cover the great majority — we cast each with its own native talent and can schedule the sessions together.

Usually, yes. Lingala serves Kinshasa and the western DRC and crosses the river into the Republic of the Congo, so a single session can address both capitals. That is a real budget advantage and it is worth telling us if both markets are in scope, because it can affect the references we keep in the adaptation.

It depends what you need. French is the official language and carries administration, law and formal business, so it has institutional weight. Lingala has reach: it is the language of radio, music and daily life across Kinshasa and the west. If your content has to be understood and trusted by a broad audience, Lingala. If it has to carry official authority, French. Many campaigns end up needing both, in different pieces.

Close and spoken. Lingala grew as a language of trade, the army and above all music, and it lives on radio and in everyday conversation rather than in official documents. A script carrying the syntax of a French administrative text sounds imported no matter how accurate the translation is. We adapt for the spoken register rather than translating line by line, and we will flag it if the source copy is fighting the language.

Expect some expansion. Lingala is a Bantu language that builds words with prefixes and carries noun-class agreement through the sentence, so the same content generally takes more syllables. We flag the timing at adaptation stage and can either adjust the copy or tell you where the edit has room, rather than asking the voice actor to rush.

Yes, and for Lingala 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.

Yes, with native Lingala linguists. For public-health and humanitarian material we would also suggest agreeing key terminology up front, since the wording has to stay consistent across a campaign and, in health messaging, has to be unambiguous.

NGO and humanitarian communication, public-health and vaccination campaigns, radio and broadcast, consumer advertising, music and entertainment, community and civic information, and corporate material for organisations working in Kinshasa, western DR Congo and Brazzaville.

Files shaped to the destination: WAV, MP3 or split stems, mastered to your broadcaster's loudness target.

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.