Russian Accent Voice 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 Russian language and accent

Russia was occupied from around the 6th century AD by Slavic tribes who settled in and around the area westward to the river Elbe and southward towards the Adriatic Sea.

Three languages emerged from this time, which were Western, Southern and Eastern Slav. It was the Eastern Slavonic language that formed the basis for Ukrainian, Belorussian and Russian.

The alphabet used for the Russian language was called Cyrillic and it is based on the Greek alphabet, with other letters added on to represent the Russian sound. The language was called Old Church Slavonic and it was improved and updated until around 1928 when the alphabet finally became as it is today. It contains loanwords from other countries such as Dutch, French, Latin and German.

As Russia ruled part of Finland during the 1800s, there are still some Finnish people who speak Russian. You will also hear it spoken in Estonia and Latvia. Russian is a popular second language for other Slavic language speakers, such as in Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria.

Russian dialects are split into three variants; North, South and Central, with Moscow in the central region and northern dialects being spoken along the area of the Volga river. Russian also has a number of derived languages including a slang language called Padonkaffsky Jargon, or Olbanian, which began as an internet language used by Russian internet users and a Pidgin language called Talmyr Pidgin Russian. It is spoken by people living in the Talmyr peninsular, in the far north of Russia.

Listen to Ivan on this You Tube clip. He is speaking English with a Russian accent and telling jokes!