Danish Accent Voice Over Recordings

Working with translation and production companies

Adding audio visual services to your mix will create many new sales opportunities for your team. We can add translation, voiceover and subtitling to your company’s offering, which will appear seamless to your clients and yet mesh easily with the processes in your own departments.

Matinée has over 40 years of experience working alongside translation and production companies. So you can be sure our project managers are fully at home with the technical process of supervising and delivering localised material, in a professional and timely manner.

If you are a translation company, we will send you some helpful guidelines for providing us with copy or scripts, as they will need to be formatted correctly for voicing or for subtitling. If you are a production company, we can organise translations and create the subtitles in your preferred format. Voiceover recordings can be supplied as edited files, or we can remix with the original music and effects and layback to complete the new video soundtrack, ready to go.

Working seamlessly with your team, we can take on all or part of the process, according to your needs, and help widen your service offering.

Origins of the Danish language and accent

Danish is a Germanic language and it originates from Old Norse, which was the language spoken by the Germanic people who lived in Scandinavia when it was controlled by the Vikings. It said to come from East Norse, along with Swedish. Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, can be mutually understood.

Danish is not a country that has varied speech norms, unlike its neighbours, more than a quarter of the population live in and around the capital Copenhagen. This means that around the Copenhagen area, there aren’t a lot of differences in dialect.

However, outside the capital, there are three main dialects which are:

• Insular Danish, which includes the Danish Islands. It is spoken on all six islands, which include Zealand and Funen. There are differences in gender and accent between insular Danish and traditional Danish.
• Jutlandic, is divided into Southern, Western and Eastern. The Southern dialect is distinct from standard Danish. There are also a further 20 dialects on Jutland alone. One of the dialects, called Sonderjysk is said to be very difficult for other Danish speakers to understand.
• Bornholmsk, which is a dialect from the island of Bornholm, which is in the Baltic sea. There is some Swedish influence in the dialect in the North of the island. This is due to the fact that Sweden gained control of the region in 1658, although it was returned to Danish rule two years later. There are some pronunciation differences between regions, but they are all mutually intelligible.
• To hear someone talking English with a Danish accent, listen to footballer, Christian Eriksen’s first interview with Spurs football club. You can hear his Danish accent really well.