Blog - Accents

Do accents in voice over matter? Learn why regional accents can add authenticity & trust to your media—and which is the best accent to use in your project.

Since advertising began, those in the marketing industry have been striving to forge deeper connections with their audience. One way that this has been done…

Whatever your purpose, subtitles play a key role in widening your audience reach. So, what are the pros and cons of including slang in your subtitles? Does it help communicate the meaning of what is being said, or simply stand in the way of an effective abridgement of the spoken audio?

If you want to give off a certain type of impression in your videos then using a foreign accent is perfect. This is a clever way of adding a touch of sophistication, a down to Earth quality or even a little bit of va va voom when the occasion demands it.

Considering that Ireland has produced terrific actors like Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Gabriel Byrne and Colin Farrell there is no excuse for using actors and actresses who produce diabolical accents like the following ones.

Scotland has been named a ‘call centre nation’, with so many options to locate call centres whether in the UK and abroad it got us thinking if it is the Scottish accent that is winning people over.

The release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is so close we can almost touch it! We had fun compiling the facts on the languages of Star Wars and have put together an infographic which showcases the most common ones spoken in the galaxy.

How our tastes have changed and why we seem to prefer regional accents more now.