Welsh voice-over production made simple
As an established Welsh voice-over agency, Matinée has been providing a professional Welsh Voice-Over Service and Welsh Subtitling Service for over 25 years. We offer a selection of the very best Welsh voice talent, at a price you can afford.
Whether you are looking for Welsh voice-over artists for documentary, advertising, eLearning, or telephone messaging, we’ll supply the best Welsh voice talent for the job. We’ll time-sync the selected Welsh voice-over to picture, and deliver the audio back in the file format of your choice. Or, we can lay back the Welsh audio onto your video and re-work the captions where necessary.
Check out our FAQs for more information and costs. To check the availability of our Welsh voice-artists and to confirm costs, please contact us today using the quick Quote form opposite. Or you can email project@matinee.co.uk or call on +44(0)118 958 4934.
Voice-over selection and quotation in just three easy steps
1. browse the voice-over demos below and click PLAY to audition each casting sample
2. choose the voice(s) you like and click ADD to your Quick Quote, or DOWNLOAD a copy
3. complete the Quick Quote and we’ll check availability and costs, with a response in just 1 hour
A short history of the Welsh language
Welsh (Cymraeg) belongs to the Celtic language group, one of the nine branches of the Indo-European family of languages. It is one of the oldest languages in Europe – possibly dating back 4,000 years.
Celtic languages were spoken throughout Europe before the spread of the Roman Empire. The ones that survived were those that had migrated from the mainland to the western islands of Britain and Ireland during the Bronze Age or Iron Age.
Over time, Proto-Celtic divided into four sub-groups. Of these, two are now extinct (Gaulish and Hispano-Celtic). The others are Brittonic (which includes Welsh, Cornish and Breton, as well as the extinct languages of Cumbric and Pictish) and Goidelic (which includes Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic).
The Welsh language has faced significant threats over the years, particularly dilution by the influx of English-speaking workers to Wales during the Industrial Revolution; by 1911 it had become a minority language. There is now a huge drive to keep the language alive in Wales, with Welsh a compulsory subject in schools up to the age of 16. Read more