Have to get voice menu spoken in 6 different languages 5

[GHTROUT]

Unless I can talk some sense into someone, I have to find someplace that can record a voice menu message in English; Spanish; Polish; Russian; French; Serbian.

Other than the traditional subscription or one-time use of "Language Lines", what have others done?

Just the same, if anyone wants to mention their favorite Language Translation Service, now is your chance and I'll listen It may be the only easy option.

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[Sympology]

Is it one consistant menu, i.e
English, press one, french 2 etc etc

or are they seperate messages? The latter is easier to deal with.

Luckily we have someone at our office that can speak several languages (and sounds good to).

You could try these, we've used them before

http://www.marketingmessages.com/

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[RyanEOD]

GH, Ew

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. . .that doesn't sound like fun. We have only every done Spanish, English or French here. Although we did do an application with an Arabic overlay once.

Let us know how it turns out.

 

[curtismo]

Do you live in a college town or have a larger university available?

You would probably have a really good chance at finding speakers from all of the above languages at a Land-grant university (ie, the state's Agricultural school), as they tend to draw students and professors from all parts of the world. I live and work in one of these "college towns."

Don't know what your budget is, but my suggestion would be to involve a local radio station group or ad agency that has a background in developing station audio promotions in developing your menu audio. Good production managers have the tools and experience in taking audio cuts and compressing and cutting them into usable liners.

 

[curtismo]

To continue with my previous message, if I had to do this project...

- Use alternating male/female voices for each language.

- Open the menu with a quick single-word common greeting in each language ("Hello", "Welcome"); sort of like a "sweeper" (a term used by radio station Program or Imaging personnel).

- Separate menu items with the number read in the same order by the same voice in each of the languages.

Again, I don't know what your budget is (profit, non-profit, etc.) Most large radio station groups (Journal Broadcast Group, Clear Channel, etc.) have imaging people on staff, or can at least tell you who they use to develop their liners. If non-profit, head for the local college's communications department - they might do this as a student project.

Gene, I know you're in Wisconsin, I would go to the web site for University of Wisconsin-Madison and look for their International Students office. I bet you could easily find all of the needed languages easily.

 

[paterson]

That's a big job. Not only do greetings have to be in 6 languages, but the prompts too. I would look for vm products that already have the different language prompts available for you to use, then get a service to record your menu greetings after programming is done.

I would go with a professional service if you have the $$$ because people "off the street" will not always be available for greeting changes later. You would then end up without a consistent voice for each language. Unless you re-record each greeting for each language with the new voice when changes are needed.

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[PERRYPJ]

GOD forbid they want to change the Menu, your looking at a #@#@#@#@ NIGHTMARE.
I have to deal with three languages because of County Government, English, Spanish, and Creole and it's a pain in the ass

OLD ROLMEN WORKING ON NORTELS AND AVAYA