Yoruba voice over, natively reviewed.

Yoruba is a tonal language with a large audience in Nigeria and beyond, and tone marks are part of correct writing.

Accents and variants of Yoruba.

Standard Yoruba
The standard of media and education.
Lagos voice
A conversational urban voice that mixes English.
Diaspora voice
A voice for communities abroad.

What a native Yoruba reviewer checks.

Tone marks
Written tone marks show the tone, and a reviewer checks them.
Dialects
The varieties differ, and we choose by audience.
English mixing
Common in urban speech.

Writing for Yoruba.

Missing tone marks
Without them words can be read wrongly.
Proverbs and idiom
Yoruba uses proverbs, which a literal translation can break.
Numbers
The traditional counting is complex, so many say English numbers.

Yoruba voice over: questions.

Do we need a native reviewer?

Yes. Tone and idiom decide whether it sounds right.

Can a Nigerian English voice serve Yoruba audiences?

For Yoruba-language content, no.

Tell us your Yoruba project.

Tell us your content, languages and timing on one short page. A producer replies.

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