You’ll be able to quickly and easily decide on and locate the resources you need to create any sort of dubbed or voiced-over video file.

This is possible for all sizes and purposes of file. From cost-effective media designed to be deployed via YouTube or other video-sharing platforms through to entire feature films for distribution via DVD or other physical formats.

For over seventeen years, artists, companies, and individuals from all over Singapore, the UK, the US, Europe, Asia, the Americas, and across the rest of the world have used Asian Absolute’s dubbing and voiceover services. Here you’ll find both the experienced project managers and connections necessary to source local talent for any video content.

• Vocal professionals matched to your project – you’ll be paired with voice talents suitable for your budget and target audience, from locally famous names to more cost-effective options.
• Specialists in every global language – whatever language you need to hire voice talent in, we have the necessary contacts and experience to source the right timbre, style, accent, age, gender or accent for you.
• Banking-grade security procedures – your project might contain proprietary information relating to how your company delivers its market-leading services, for example. We protect your data zealously.
• 24-hour support with every project – thanks to our global office network, we always have someone standing by to give you the support you need.

Localising film or animation involves translating speech and adding it to the video either as subtitles or as localised voiceover or dubbing. The choice of which is most suitable will depend on the market and the purpose of the video.

When judged against subtitling services for project suitability, voiced-over or dubbed content is often chosen when:

•  Videos include a lot of action or onscreen graphics, from which subtitles might distract.
• Video content is likely to be displayed on mobile devices, which have smaller amounts of screen space.
• Videos are designed to be watched by children, who might not be able to read subtitles quickly enough.

With Asian Absolute, you can choose from a full spectrum of professionally trained voice talents, most of whom regularly record for TV commercials and programs produced in their own country. We can connect you with a broad range of local talent at varying rates to suit the scope of your project, such as:

• Well-known local celebrities, actors and radio presenters
• Cost-effective options such as drama students

We’ll help you select an artist whose voice conveys the right image for your project. For clients who want to outsource the entire process, we can provide voice directors and book studios, as well as handling the post-processing and integration with video.

Alternatively, we can simply arrange for the voice talent to attend a studio session that you have arranged.

Though they’re sometimes thought of as essentially the same thing, voiceovers and dubbing are actually quite different:

Voice-overs

A voice-over is generally performed by a single actor. They will record the properly localised version of your original content, and then the track will usually be put in place over the original audio. This is most often done while allowing for a second or two’s delay between the original file and the voice-over content. The original audio is generally still audible at a reduced volume but can be eliminated altogether when necessary.

Voice-overs are most suitable for: documentaries, news broadcasts, e-learning courses, and training or instructional videos.

Dubbing

Dubbed audio, on the other hand, will see an entire cast of voice actors acting out the scene, putting as much emotion and expression into the recording as there is in the original sound file. This requires a considerable amount of talent to do effectively, as the emotions and the expressions used must click with the local target audience in the same way as the original performance would have. Dubbed content will usually replace the original audio in its entirety.

Dubbed content is most suitable for: feature films and television shows.

To ensure expensive studio and voice talent time is not spent fixing translation errors, we strongly advise ensuring that you have a professionally translated script. You can read more about our translation services here, should you need them.

With our full service, you’ll get:

• The effective localisation of your script into the target language.
• Sourcing of the right local vocal talents.
• Professional recording of the localised script.
• Positioning of the new audio performance in the video.
• Quality Assurance and checking.

You’ll almost certainly have watched a badly dubbed video at some point, so you’ll know how frustrating poor quality can be to an audience fluent in the target language.

For this reason, part of our Quality Assurance procedure will always be a check performed by expert translators who are native speakers of your target language. This makes certain that there are no errors, and that all content is properly localised and will make perfect sense to any viewer in that language.

Contact us to discuss the voiceover or dubbing services you need in Singapore, at any time. We’ll always be happy to talk about your needs with you and see how we can customise our service to meet them.