Setswana voice over services

Often yes, and that is unusual for the region. Setswana is official in Botswana and one of South Africa's official languages, spoken particularly in the North West province, so a single recording can genuinely serve both. Tell us where the audience is and we will confirm rather than default to two versions.

Usually noun classes. Setswana sorts nouns into classes and the agreement runs through the whole sentence, so a wrong class breaks everything after it rather than merely reading awkwardly. Translation tools handle it inconsistently, which makes it the clearest sign that no native speaker was involved.

Usually, yes. Setswana is the national language of Botswana and one of South Africa's official languages, spoken particularly in the North West province, and standard Setswana serves both. That makes it one of the few African languages where two markets come with one session. If your content is tied to one country specifically, tell us and we will take it into account when we shortlist.

No. They belong to the same Sotho-Tswana group and share a great deal, which is exactly why the assumption gets made, but they are separate languages and an audience hears the difference. We cast natives of each. If you need both, we can schedule the sessions together, which is cheaper than commissioning them separately.

Corporate and consumer, not developmental. Botswana is an upper-middle-income country with an economy built on mining, finance and premium tourism, and a register borrowed from aid communication reads as condescending to that audience. We direct for the same professionalism you would expect in any other business market.

Not at the moment — our current Setswana roster is entirely female, and we would rather tell you now than at shortlist stage. If your project needs a male read, say so when you brief us and we will go to our wider network and come back honestly about what we can arrange and in what timeframe.

Expect it to run longer. Setswana builds words with prefixes and carries noun-class agreement through the sentence, so the same content takes more syllables than English. We flag the expansion when we translate and can either adapt the copy or advise on where the edit has room.

Yes, and for Setswana that is the arrangement — our talent records through our global network rather than in London. You can direct live over Source-Connect, Zoom or Teams so you hear takes as they happen and adjust on the spot.

Yes, with native Setswana linguists. For mining and safety training we would also suggest agreeing terminology up front, since the wording has to stay consistent across a module set and, in safety content, has to be unambiguous.

Corporate video and internal communications, banking and financial services content, mining and workplace safety training, tourism and hospitality material, government and public-information campaigns, eLearning, and broadcast work for Botswana and South Africa's North West.

Your Setswana audio is delivered to your specification: uncompressed WAV, MP3 where size matters, stems where the mix happens elsewhere, at the LUFS target you set.

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.