Portuguese 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 Portuguese language and accent

The Portuguese language comes from Latin, which was spoken by soldiers who came to the Portuguese region in the 3rd century BC.

Around the 5th century, Portugal was invaded by Barbarians who spoke Germanic languages and they ruled Portugal for around 300 years. Portugal was then invaded by the Moors and after this the official language became Arabic, although many of the Portuguese people continued to speak using Vulgar Latin.

During the Middle Ages the language became known as Old Portuguese or Galician Portuguese, as Portugal at that time was part of Galicia, which is now Spanish.

In 1139, Portugal became an independent kingdom and in 1290 the first University was founded in Lisbon. It was around this time that the Portuguese language was made official and was known as the common language or as the Portuguese language.

During the 15th and 16th centuries Portuguese explorers conquered many countries outside Europe and the Portuguese language spread to places like Africa, the Americas and Asia. In Brazil it is an official language and it is spoken by the majority of the Brazilian people. Portugal discovered Brazil in 1500 when the region was inhabited by Tupi Indians. Over the centuries Portuguese became the dominant language, although there are some differences in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

Brazilian Portuguese has about 15 different regional dialects and European Portuguese has around ten, ranging from the Azores area, to the Algarve, Lisbon and Central Portugal.

To hear English spoken with a Portuguese accent, see this You Tube interview with famous Real Madrid footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo.