Mandarin is considered the language with the most native speakers in the world. Almost 12% of the whole World’s population are native Mandarin Chinese speakers.
We’ve been working with Voice Crafters since 2012 on various IVR, commercial and corporate projects. They have a huge database with excellent voice artists, are very professional and at fair rates. We are happy to know them and look forward to the next 5 years!
Yuyu H.Chinese (Mandarin)
China
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Worked with Metal Bulleting Beijing, Business Coordinator—4 years CRI(China Radi... |
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Yining G.Chinese (Mandarin)
China
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Inni is reliable, prompt and very easy to work with. |
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Wenli X.Chinese (Mandarin) Chinese (Cantonese)
China
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Professional Chinese voice artist with more than 15 yrs experience! Have home st... |
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Kent C.Chinese (Mandarin) Taiwanese
Taiwan
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He is “the guy next door” only better, and professional. His voice sounds warm, ... |
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Guidong Z.Chinese (Mandarin)
United Kingdom
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Masterful voice actor with over 28+ years of experience, native to China and spe... |
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Jason W.Chinese (Mandarin)
China
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I have extensive experience 17 years of recording for radio and television comme... |
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Racheal T.Chinese (Mandarin)
United Kingdom
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Racheal is a London-based native Chinese voice-over talent, born and raised in C... |
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Xf L.Chinese (Mandarin) Chinese (Cantonese)
China
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10+ years of Chinese Voice Over experience. Helped many big brands reach their C... |
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Yu C.Chinese (Mandarin)
Japan
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Professional Chinese voice actor with Home Studio. I’m from China and currently... |
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Mengting X.Chinese (Mandarin)
Australia
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My name is Meng, and I would love to work with you on this project. I’ve been a ... |
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Angela L.Chinese (Mandarin)
United States
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I’m a Los Angeles, CA, US-based professional trained voice-over actress. My Nati... |
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Yee Chen L.Chinese (Mandarin) Chinese (Cantonese)
Malaysia
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I am an experienced Voice-over talent fluent in Mandarin & Cantonese. My sty... |
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Lan L.Chinese (Mandarin)
China
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More than 10 years recording experience in mandarin recording. I have profession... |
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Erika Huey Shiun T.Chinese (Mandarin)
Switzerland
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My name is Erika and I’m a professional Mandarin, English, and Malay voice actor... |
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Seraphin F.Chinese (Mandarin)
Taiwan
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This is Seraphin a professional mandarin voice announcer readily available at an... |
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We offer some of the best Mandarin voice actors you’ll find online!
Since 2009, Voice Crafters provides Chinese voice over services for:
No matter the project – we have the perfect Mandarin voice for it. You’ll find a baritone voice, a deep voice, a sultry voice, and everything in between – here at Voice Crafters
You can post a project to hire talent and work directly with one/s that best suits your creative project or for bigger projects, just ask us to manage your project for you.
We have a lot of experience with audio production and post-production, so you’re guaranteed good results!
If you’re localizing to Chinese from another language, you’ll be glad to know that we also perform post-production tasks such as syncing the VO to picture, SFX, mixing, and mastering.
And if you need subtitling in Simplified Chinese (or Traditional for that matter), well, we do that too!
And there’s more…!
We have our very own royalty-free music website, so if you need affordable, hand-picked music tracks for your creative project, well – you’ll find them right here!
Have any questions about voice over prices or anything else? Simply contact us for any help or advise on your project!
Mandarin, often called Mandarin Chinese, is a Sino-Tibetan language and the most popular Chinese dialect.
Mandarin is widely spoken in Northern and Southwestern China and Taiwan. Mandarin is also an official language in both of these countries as well as Singapore and the United Nations.
920 million people are native Mandarin Chinese speakers and another 200 million speak it as a second language.
Mandarin is considered the language with the most native speakers in the world. Almost 12% of the whole World’s population are native Mandarin Chinese speakers.
The history of Mandarin Chinese as we know it today doesn’t stretch that far. Until the 20th century, there was no Standard Chinese that could be used in education, media, and politics. Instead, hundreds of regional dialects were used throughout China.
Mandarin became standardized in 1912 – when the Republic of China was established. Mandarin Chinese became the official and standard language of the republic.
Mandarin Chinese is mostly related to Burmese and Tibetan. Despite popular belief, Mandarin is unrelated to other neighbor languages, such as Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, or Japanese.
However, these neighboring languages were strongly influenced by Mandarin. For example, Korean and Japanese use Chinese symbols in their written language. Vietnamese also includes a variety of Chinese loanwords.
Mandarin Chinese vocabulary contains a number of loanwords from other languages. Mandarin mostly borrowed from Sanskrit and Persian, and more recently – from English.
At the same time, the English vocabulary has quite a few words of Chinese origin. For example, brainwashing, ketchup, and tea.
There are two main written types of Mandarin Chinese: traditional and simplified. The simplified writing system was introduced in the 1950s by the Chinese government to increase literacy.
Things get a bit tricky when we discuss Chinese Mandarin dialects. Chinese is a language family that contains hundreds of mutually unintelligible languages. Mandarin itself is the most common Chinese dialect.
In addition to Mandarin, six other Chinese dialects are usually distinguished: Wu, Gan, Xiang, Min, Kejia (Hakka), and Yue (Cantonese).
Mandarin includes a Beijing Dialect – a prestigious dialect that’s the basis of the Standard Chinese.
When recording a Mandarin Chinese voice over, it’s important to know that all Chinese language varieties are tonal. That means that each syllable could have different meanings, depending on how it’s pronounced.
Mandarin Chinese is a rather slow-spoken language. The average spoken speed is around 5 syllables per second. It is significantly slower than English, which is, on average, 6 syllables per second.
Just like with any other language, the tempo of spoken Mandarin depends on the situation. For example, if your recording a fast-paced commercial, the tempo will be much higher than average. Recording an audiobook? Slow it down and let the listeners enjoy it.
The voice over for this video was performed by professional voice actor Yuyu H.
Voice Crafters was responsible for the sync, audio mix, titles and subtitles for this video as well as localizing versions in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Yuyu has over seven years of VO experience, three of which has been in radio. His voice suits documentaries and corporate videos exceptionally well, but he is also capable of voice acting for other VO applications.
The voice over for this American Red Cross video was recorded by professional Mandarin voice actor Wenli X.
Wenli has over 15 years of experience as a voiceover artist and has recorded for brands such as PG, Toshiba, Estée Lauder., China Mobile, etc.
This voice over for Moov was recorded by Professional voice talent Jason W.
Jason is an experienced voiceover artist and has voiced for brands such as Rolls-Royce, Hermes, Honda, Facebook, Marriott, Schneider, UFC, WHO, Apple, and many many more!