French 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 French language and accent

In France, Metropolitan French (that which is spoken in Paris) is said to be the standard language. You will not only hear French throughout France, but in many places throughout the world. In fact, there are officially 29 countries where the French language is spoken. These include 21 countries in Africa and the rest from North America and Europe, as well as Vanuatu, which is in the South Pacific Ocean.

In Canada for example, you will hear Quebec French and Acadian French, both of which are spoken in Quebec. Swiss French is spoken in an area of Switzerland known as Romandie, which does not differ much from standard French.

Then there is Belgium French, spoken by the people of Belgium. It too is similar to standard French but it does contain some loan words from Dutch and other languages.

France was conquered by the Romans and at that time the people of Gaul in France spoke a language known as Gaulish, which was a Celtic language. However, this was soon replaced by Latin. In the 9th century the French language was called Old French, until the middle of the 13th century when it became known as middle French. During the 17th century the French Academy was founded in order to improve the French language and its use.

In the Medieval times when William the Conqueror came to Britain, he only spoke French and the language was spoken throughout William’s court. Nowadays French voiceovers speaking English with French accents, are very popular in advertising French products such as perfume and cars. If you want to hear a French accent, watch this interview with French actor, Gerald Depardieu, speaking in English with a French accent.