Maltese voice over services

We cast them to order rather than listing demos, because we are still building the Maltese roster and we would rather tell you that than show you a thin page of samples. You send us the brief, we go to our vetted network of native speakers, and we come back with auditions recorded against your actual script, so you hear real options before committing.

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.

Yes, and in Malta that is usually the shape of the job. Commissioning the pair together lets us adapt both to the same picture, keep the sync points aligned and keep terminology consistent, which matters especially in financial services and iGaming where the wording is often prescribed. It also tends to cost less than running them as two separate projects.

Longer than for a language we hold a deep roster in, so brief us early. Because we source against the brief rather than from a shelf, lead time is what buys you a properly auditioned shortlist rather than whoever happens to be free. Your project manager will give you a realistic date at the start.

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.

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.