Samoan voice over services

We cast them to order rather than listing demos, because we are still building the Samoan 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.

They are the two spoken styles of Samoan. The t-style, traditionally called tautala lelei, is used in all writing and in broadcasting, church, school and formal settings. The k-style, tautala leaga, is everyday speech: t is pronounced k, n becomes a ng sound, and r becomes l. The distinction is about setting rather than correctness, and it is the single most useful thing you can specify when you brief a Samoan recording.

As a rule of thumb, anything institutional, broadcast or official wants t-style, and anything conversational, community-facing or addressed to people rather than at them usually wants k-style. Health campaigns can go either way depending on whether the tone is authoritative or neighbourly. Tell us who the piece is for and we will recommend one — and if it genuinely could go either way, we can audition both.

No, and this catches people out. Samoan is only written in one form, the t-style, so a script gives you no signal at all about how it should be spoken. The decision lives entirely in the brief. If nobody makes it deliberately, it gets made by default in the booth, which is how community content ends up sounding like an official announcement.

They are part of Samoan spelling, not optional accents. The glottal stop and the macrons over long vowels distinguish words from one another, so dropping them can change what a line says. They make no difference to the audio, but they matter for subtitles, captions, lower thirds and any on-screen text, and systems that don't support them strip them without warning. Worth confirming your fonts and CMS carry them before the graphics are built.

Usually somewhere else, and it is worth checking before you write. Samoan is official in Samoa and American Samoa, but very large Samoan communities live in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. That affects the references that land, the mix of English loanwords that sounds natural, and often whether the piece needs an English version alongside it.

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-health and vaccination campaigns, government and civic information, education and school communications, social services and community outreach, broadcast and radio, and accessibility work for Pacific communities in New Zealand and Australia.

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.