Yoruba voice over services

Because something in the chain stripped them. Yoruba marks tone with acute and grave accents, and its alphabet includes ẹ, ọ and ṣ with a dot beneath — separate letters, not decorated ones. Copying between applications, an incomplete font, a CMS that normalises Unicode or a spreadsheet export will all quietly remove them. The text then looks clean and means something else. We check the characters on delivery, and it is worth pasting real Yoruba into your own templates before you build them.

Yes, because ẹ, ọ and ṣ are different letters from e, o and s, not the same letters wearing an accent. Dropping the dot does not produce a misspelling that a reader mentally corrects; it produces a different word, or a sequence that is not a word at all. The same applies to the tone accents. A Yoruba speaker reads the result as broken.

The failure runs the other way. Yoruba writes its tones, so the source is unambiguous — until a system strips the marks in transit. Igbo generally does not write tone at all, so its scripts are ambiguous from the start and the reader has to supply it. Both end up requiring a native reader who knows the word before seeing it, but for opposite reasons.

No. Nigeria's three major languages divide broadly by region — Yoruba in the south-west, Hausa in the north, Igbo in the south-east — with English as the official language nationally. A national campaign generally needs all three, and often English too. We record each with its own native talent and can schedule them together, which costs less than separate commissions.

Yes, largely. Yoruba is spoken across south-western Nigeria and into Benin and Togo, so one recording can serve audiences in all three. If your content is specific to one country — references, institutions, currency — tell us and we will take it into account at adaptation stage.

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

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

Advertising and consumer campaigns, broadcast and radio, Nollywood and drama, public-health and civic information, financial-inclusion and agricultural content, eLearning and training, and community messaging for Yoruba-speaking audiences in Nigeria, Benin, Togo and the diaspora.

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.