Cebuano Voice-Over Agency, Cebuano Voice Artist Talent

Cebuano voice-over production made simple

As an established Cebuano voice-over agency, Matinée has been providing a professional Cebuano Voice-Over Service and Cebuano Subtitling Service for over 25 years. We offer a selection of the very best Cebuano voice talent, at a price you can afford.

Whether you are looking for Cebuano voice-over artists for documentary, advertising, eLearning, or telephone messaging, we’ll supply the best Cebuano voice talent for the job. We’ll time-sync the selected Cebuano voice-over to picture, and deliver the audio back in the file format of your choice. Or, we can lay back the Cebuano 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 Cebuano 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

Windows Live Messenger video translation in 37 languages

In partnership with Microsoft’s translation agency – Lionbridge, Matinée were commissioned to localise a set of Microsoft Windows Live Messenger 2011 product demonstration videos, which were originally created in Adobe After Effects.

Using the translations and screenshots provided by Lionbridge, Matinée cast and recorded a native female voice artist in 37 languages, and then edited and re-timed the After Effects animations to match the length of the foreign voice tracks.

These videos are now viewed worldwide in over 55 international markets.

A short history of the Cebuano language

Cebuano (also known as Sugbuhanon) belongs to the western branch of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages. It is a member of the Visayan (or Bisayan) language group, along with around 30 other languages. These, together with Tagalog and Bikol, are the principal languages of the Philippines.

Cebuano is the most widely spoken of the Visayan languages, and the second most widely used language in the Philippines (after Tagalog). The name is derived from the island of Cebu, home of the oldest city in the Philippines and an established trading hub long before the arrival of the Spanish in Manila in the 16th century.

The first written record of the Cebuano language was made in 1521, by the Italian explorer Antonio Pigafetta during the Megellan expedition. Read more

Which countries have Cebuano as a national language?

Cebuano is one of the regional languages of the Philippines. It is spoken in Cebu, Bohol, Negros Oriental, western Leyte, northern and western Mindanao, Negros Occidental, the Biliran Islands, the Camotes Islands, and parts of Samar.

How many people speak Cebuano as their first language?

Approximately a fifth of the population of the Philippines speaks Cebuano. Although it is the second most widely used language after Tagalog, it is the native language of more regions than Tagalog.

It is estimated that around 18 million people speak Cebuano as their first language, with a further 10 million speaking it as a second language.

Did you know…

There are various Cebuano dialects, some of which are given different names. For example, someone living in Bohol may call the language Bol-anon, while someone in Leyte may refer to it as Kana.
Other Visayan languages that are also well recognised and widely used are Hiligaynon (spoken in Cotabato and Western Visayas by around seven million people) and Waray-Waray (spoken in Eastern Visayas by around three million).
Loanwords from Spanish include krus (cruz – cross) and brilyante (brillante – brilliant). Loanwords from English include brislit (bracelet), hayskul (high school), syapin (shopping) and prayd tsikin (fried chicken).
In 1956 a group of Visayan poets, writers and journalists established a group called LUDABI (Lubas sa Dagang Binisaya) to preserve the Visayan languages, which have never had a strong literary tradition.

The Philippines economy

The Philippines, a newly industrialised country, has the 40th largest economy in the world. It is one of Asia’s fastest growing economies, and has been named as one of the Tiger Cub Economies (along with Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand – so-called because they are following in the export-driven footsteps of the original Four Asian Tigers of Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan). Goldman Sachs has identified the Philippines as one of the N-11 (Next Eleven) economies, and estimates that it will be the 14th largest economy in the world by 2050.

Major exports include electronic products, transport equipment, clothing, copper products and petroleum products.

So… you’ve been given a quote for voice-over, and it includes costs for cleaning and editing the audio.
But what does this mean? And why do you need the audio edited and cleaned? This video will explain all.

Independent video producers talk about the reasons why they come to Matinée Multilingual.
It’s for the expertise of the staff, the range of services, and the superb customer service.