Luganda voice over services

If Uganda is a genuine target market, yes. Swahili is official in Uganda but is used far less in daily life there than in Kenya or Tanzania, and Kampala runs on Luganda. A Swahili recording will be understood by many Ugandans and will still feel like it was made for somebody else — which matters most in exactly the public-health and development work Uganda attracts.

For urban, educated and professional audiences it goes a long way, since English is Uganda's official language and the language of government and higher education. For public-health, agricultural, financial-inclusion and community campaigns it does not, because those are precisely the audiences English reaches least well. Most NGO briefs we see end up using both.

No. They are both Bantu languages but they are separate, and Luganda is tonal with a noun-class system that carries agreement through the sentence. A non-native reading phonetically produces something a Luganda audience identifies as wrong straight away. We cast native Luganda speakers.

Longer, and by more than people expect. Luganda is a Bantu language built on noun classes, so a single English word can arrive as a chain of prefixes wrapped around a stem. Timed content therefore needs the copy shortened at translation stage; speeding up the read instead is what makes public-information audio sound panicked.

Yes, with native Luganda linguists. For public-health and development content we would also suggest a terminology pass up front, since the standard wording for medical and agricultural terms matters more than usual when the material is meant to be acted on.

Rarely. Luganda as spoken in Kampala and the central region is what broadcast and campaign content uses, and it is understood across the Luganda-speaking area. Tell us if your content is aimed at a particular district and we will take it into account when we shortlist.

NGO and development communications, public-health and vaccination campaigns, agricultural extension and financial-inclusion content, eLearning, government and civic information, radio advertising aimed at the Ugandan market, and documentary narration.

Short Luganda reads normally land inside two working days. Sessions run out of Kampala, two hours ahead of London, and your project manager commits to a delivery date before recording.

WAV, MP3 or stems to broadcast standard, matched to your platform's numbers. Include the delivery spec with the brief.

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.