Sanskrit Voice Over Agency

Working with translation and production companies

Adding audio visual services to your mix will create many new sales opportunities for your team.

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. 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.

If you are a translation company, we will send you some helpful guidelines when providing us with copy or scripts, and we can either work from your translations or handle the whole project for you, including translation. If you are a production company, we will provide translations or subtitles in your preferred format; whether that’s subtitle-ready files (XML or PNG), or burnt in as fully-subtitled videos. Voiceover recordings can be supplied as edited files, or we can remix with the original music and effects and provide a finished video, 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.

A short history on the Sanskrit language

Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It is recognised in the constitution of India as both a classical language and an official language.

Sanskrit is one of the most ancient languages in the world, along with Latin, Greek, Chinese and Arabic, and it is has a central place in the study of Indo-European languages. There are three main phases:

• Vedic Sanskrit – this is the oldest known form of Sanskrit, dating back to around 1500 BCE, and used to write the Vedas, an ancient collection of poems or hymns.
• Classical Sanskrit – the standard register of Sanskrit as set out by the grammarian Pānini in the 4th century BCE. Classical Sanskrit became a scholarly, liturgical and philosophical lingua franca that was studied throughout Greater India. As such, it influenced the development of most languages of the Indian subcontinent, notably in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal.
• Contemporary Sanskrit – Sanskrit is still widely used in religious contexts, by Hindus and Buddhists. Vernacular use of the language is uncommon, but a movement to revive the spoken language is spreading.

Which countries have Sanskrit as a national language?

Sanskrit is one of India’s 22 scheduled languages, and an official language of the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

How many people speak Sanskrit as their first language?

In India’s 2001 census, around 14,000 people identified Sanskrit as their native language. Attempts at reviving the language have been successful in a number of villages, particularly in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Did you know…

• Sanskrit was designated as a ‘Classical Language in India’ by the Indian government in 2005. So far five other languages have been accorded this status – Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Oriya.
• It has been claimed that around 97% of all languages have been directly or indirectly influenced by Sanskrit.

The Indian economy

India’s economy is the tenth largest in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest by PPP. India is the 19th largest exporter and the 10th largest importer in the world.

Due to its large population there is still a lot of poverty in the country, despite its economic success. Although India has a growing high-tech sector, around half of the population is employed in agriculture (plus forestry, logging and fishing).

Around 22% of the population work in industry (which accounts for 26% of the GDP), and 27% in the service sector. Over 20 million people work in textile manufacturing. India was one of the founding members of the World Trade Organisation’s precursor, and is a member of the G20 and BRICS (the association of five major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).