Maltese voice over services

There is no demo wall on this page, and that is deliberate. Malta has roughly half a million speakers, so the professional pool is genuinely small and a public sample list would be misleading about who is available on any given week. Instead we treat each enquiry as a fresh casting: your brief goes to vetted native speakers on the island, and what comes back is auditions of your own script.

No. It is a reasonable guess, because around half of the Maltese vocabulary is Italian and Sicilian in origin, so an Italian reader recognises a lot of the words on the page. But Maltese is a Semitic language: the grammar, the word formation and several of the sounds behave nothing like Italian. Recognising vocabulary is not the same as being able to read the language, and the difference is obvious within a sentence.

Also no, and for the mirror-image reason. Maltese descends from the Arabic spoken in medieval Sicily, so the underlying structure is familiar to an Arabic speaker. But it is written in the Latin alphabet, around half its vocabulary is Romance, and centuries of separate development have moved it a long way from Modern Standard Arabic. Neither language substitutes for the other.

Often you don't, and we will say so. English is co-official in Malta and comprehension is genuinely not the issue. Where Maltese earns its place is when the content is public-facing, institutional, or aimed at an audience you want to address rather than merely inform — and in regulated sectors, where a Maltese-language version is frequently required rather than optional. Tell us what the content is for and we will give you a straight answer.

They are letters of the Maltese alphabet, not accented variants of c, g, h and z. They matter for anything written: subtitles, captions, lower thirds and on-screen text. Systems that don't support the full character set either strip the diacritics or replace them with question marks, and a Maltese reader notices immediately. It changes nothing about the recording, so it is worth confirming your fonts and CMS carry them before the graphics are built.

Usually yes, because Malta is officially bilingual and most public-facing content ships in Maltese and English together. Doing the pair as one job keeps the sync points and the prescribed wording aligned — which matters a great deal in iGaming and financial services, where the regulator effectively writes parts of your script.

Allow more than you would for a major language. Sourcing on an island of half a million takes days rather than hours, and rushing it means settling for whoever is free that week instead of the right voice. Tell us early and your project manager will commit to a date.

Public-information and government content, broadcast and documentary narration, tourism and hospitality, corporate video, eLearning and training, and the regulated sectors Malta is known for — financial services, insurance and iGaming — where the Maltese version often forms part of the compliance package.

Files arrive however you have specified them — uncompressed masters, compressed versions for web, or stems if the mix is happening at your end.

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.