Indian 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 Indian language and accent

India is a vast country. It has 22 official languages and there are hundreds more that aren’t official, but they are spoken by the Indian people.

Hindi is the language spoken by the majority of Indian people, followed by Bengali and then Telugu and Marathi. Many Indian people are bilingual or multilingual and English is a second language for millions of them.

During the 1800s India was ruled by The East India Company, which was run by the English. The English rulers wanted all Indian people to speak English and began to use English in schools, in place of Persian. This went on through the rule of the British Raj until 1947, so that by the time India gained its independence, many Indian people spoke English. Although Hindi was then declared an official language, English continued to be used for official purposes until 1965.

England has a vast Indian migrant population and it is the most common country of birth among those who were born in India, but now reside in the UK.

Many of the Indians who migrated to the UK came from the Punjab region of India. Many Indian men served in the British army from that region and fought for Britain in the first and second World Wars. During the 50s when Britain had labour shortages, they invited the Indians to come and settle in the UK with the promise of jobs. They came to take up the promise of employment and many worked in our airports and on our public transport systems.

Bangladeshi people came to England during the civil war in Bangladesh, to escape from the war. Many of the UK’s small businesses, especially in catering, are owned by Bangladeshi’s. To listen to an Indian person speaking English with an Indian accent, watch this You Tube video between two famous Indian Chefs, Sanjeev Kapoor and Raj Bhatt.