
Voice Over · IVR & Telephone
IVR & telephone voice over services
Professional IVR, on-hold and telephone system prompts — clear, friendly and on-brand, in 100+ languages. The voice that greets every caller and guides them where they need to go.
Make every caller's first impression count
For many customers, your phone system is the first time they ever hear your brand. A clear, warm, professional voice on your IVR menus, greetings and on-hold messages sets the right tone — while a robotic or muddled prompt does the opposite.
We cast the right voice, record every prompt cleanly and deliver in the exact format your telephone system needs. When your menus or messages change, we make updates quick and painless, so your line always sounds current.
Why choose GoLocalise for your phone voice
Clear menu prompts
Every option enunciated clearly so callers get where they need to go first time.
Warm, on-brand greeting
A voice that reflects your brand and puts callers at ease from hello.
Easy updates
Menus or messages changed? We re-record matching prompts quickly and consistently.
100+ languages
Serve international callers with native-language prompts and greetings.
Right formats
Delivered in the file types and specs your phone system or PBX requires.
Consistent voice
The same voice across every prompt, on-hold loop and message for a seamless experience.
Telephone audio we record
Everything callers hear, professionally voiced:
Phone-system formats & delivery
We deliver prompts in the exact spec your PBX or telephony platform needs — just tell us the requirement.
- Audio formats
- WAV, MP3, µ-law, A-law or GSM — whatever your PBX requires.
- Sample rate
- 8 kHz for telephony as standard; 44.1/48 kHz on request.
- Prompt types
- Menu prompts, greetings, on-hold loops, voicemail and out-of-hours.
- Naming & splitting
- Files named and split per prompt for drop-in implementation.
- Updates
- Matching re-records for changed menus, kept voice-consistent.
- Languages
- Native prompts in 100+ languages from one project manager.
How our IVR voice over service works
Send us your brief
Share your script, the languages you need and the style and tone you're after. We'll advise on casting and format.
We cast the voice
We shortlist native voice actors to match your brand and audience, and you pick the perfect fit.
We record & produce
We schedule the session, direct the read and handle all editing, mixing and post-production.
You get the finished files
Broadcast-quality audio delivered in your chosen format, on time and ready to publish.
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IVR & telephone voice over resources
Guides and tools to spec, price and brief your phone-system audio.
File formats & delivery specs
8kHz, µ-law/A-law and the telephony specs your system needs.
Read the guideVoice over rates
How prompt and IVR recording is priced.
View ratesTypes of voice over explained
Where IVR sits among the different voice over styles.
Read the guideHow to write a voice over brief
Brief your prompts clearly for a consistent, on-brand system.
Read the guideLanguages
Available in 100+ languages
Need this voice over in another language? Browse our dedicated language pages — native voice actors for every market.
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Assamese
- Awadhi
- Azerbaijani (Azeri)
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bengali
- Bhojpuri
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Cantonese
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chinese Mandarin
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dari Persian
- Dutch
- Dzongkha (Bhutanese)
- English Africa
- English Australia
- English Ireland
- English New Zealand
- English South Africa
- English UK
- English US
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- Flemish
- French
- French African
- French Belgium
- French Canadian
- French Swiss
- Gaelic Scottish
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- German Austria
- German Swiss
- Greek
- Greek Cyprus
- Gujarati
- Haitian Creole
- Hausa
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hmong
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Igbo
- Indonesian
- Irish (Gaeilge)
- Italian
- Jamaican Patois
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Khmer
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lingala
- Lithuanian
- Luganda
- Macedonian
- Malagasy
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Odia (Oriya)
- Pashto
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese Brazilian
- Portuguese European
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Samoan
- Serbian
- Sesotho
- Setswana
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali
- Spanish European
- Spanish Latin American
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Taiwanese Mandarin
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Tetun Dili
- Thai
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
- Xhosa
- Yoruba
- Zulu
We record in over 100 languages
Can't see the one you need? We almost certainly cover it.
IVR & telephone voice over FAQs
What file formats do you deliver telephone prompts in?
We deliver in the format and specification your phone system needs — including telephony-standard files — so your prompts drop straight in and play back cleanly.
Can you record prompts in multiple languages?
Yes. We record IVR and on-hold prompts with native voice actors in 100+ languages, keeping tone and pronunciation consistent across all of them.
Can you update our prompts later?
Absolutely. When your menus, opening hours or messages change, we re-record the affected prompts to match the originals, so nothing sounds out of place.
Can you add music to on-hold messages?
Yes. We can mix your on-hold voice with background music and produce looping messages ready for your system.
How quickly can you turn prompts around?
Short prompt sets are usually delivered within a day or two; larger multilingual projects are scheduled with your project manager.
How much does an IVR and telephone voice over cost?
IVR is priced by the prompt, not by the minute, because that is how the work actually arrives — a spreadsheet of two hundred short lines rather than a script. What matters for the budget is how many prompts there are and whether you will be adding more later, since a system recorded piecemeal by different voices is the commonest reason phone menus sound broken. Send the prompt list for an itemised quote, with our Price Match Promise.
How do I get started with an IVR and telephone voice over?
Send the prompt list as a spreadsheet with the file names you want, and tell us what your telephony platform expects. We will return the files named and encoded so they drop straight in.
What's included in an IVR and telephone voice over from GoLocalise?
Casting, a directed session, top-and-tail editing on every prompt, and delivery encoded for telephony — usually 8 kHz mono µ-law or A-law, named exactly as your system expects.
What can I use an IVR and telephone voice over for?
We produce IVR and telephone voice over for phone menus, on-hold messages, voicemail and auto-attendant prompts — all recorded to broadcast quality and ready to publish.
Why choose GoLocalise for an IVR and telephone voice over?
A phone system is judged on the joins. Prompts recorded months apart by the same actor at a different distance from the mic will not concatenate cleanly, so we keep your session settings on file and re-create them when you come back for more.
What audio format do you deliver IVR prompts in?
We deliver telephone prompts in the exact format your phone system needs — commonly 8kHz mono WAV, with µ-law or A-law encoding where required — so they play back cleanly rather than distorted. Tell us your platform, or send an existing prompt, and we'll match the spec.
Can you match new prompts to our existing IVR voice?
Often, yes. If your current prompts were recorded with a voice still on our roster, we can add new lines in the same voice so your menu stays consistent. If not, we'll help you choose a close match and re-record the set for a seamless system.
Do you record individual prompts or the whole menu tree?
Both. We can record a handful of new prompts or a complete auto-attendant, on-hold and voicemail set, named and numbered to your call flow so each file drops into the right place in your system.
Can you provide IVR prompts in multiple languages with a consistent style?
Yes. We record native-speaker prompts across 100+ languages and keep pace, tone and structure consistent across every one, so a caller gets the same experience whichever language they choose.
Ready to refresh your phone system's voice?
Send us your prompt scripts and target languages and we'll get you a quote quickly.
No fixed rate cards — every project is priced to your script, languages and usage rights. See how pricing works
Professional voice over services for your audio and video productions
Voice over
- State-of-the-art studios
- Neumann microphones
- On-hand sound engineers
- 1,000+ voice actors
Translation
- 100+ languages covered
- Tailored to your needs
- Stringent quality control
- Dedicated project managers
Subtitling
- Experienced subtitlers
- Industry-standard software
- Burn-in and graphic editing
- Open and closed captions
Transcription
- Improve accessibility
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