Setting up a Polish voice
- Record 5 to 15 seconds of a native Polish speaker.
- Set the voice's Language to Polish.
- Test with a sentence full of consonant clusters and a number in context.
Diacritics are not optional
Text typed without Polish letters, common in quick messages, changes words and their sounds:
| With | Without | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| żona | zona | wife / zone |
| kąt | kat | angle / executioner |
| łaska | laska | grace / walking stick |
Check scripts copied from chats or spreadsheets: that's where diacritics go missing.
Writing Polish for the voice
- Numbers in the right form: Polish numbers decline: dwa koty, dwie kobiety, dwóch mężczyzn, z pięcioma osobami. Write them as words, so the form fits the sentence.
- Dates: 3 maja → trzeciego maja; years: w dwa tysiące dwudziestym szóstym roku.
- Money: zł declines too: jeden złoty, dwa złote, pięć złotych. Write it out.
- Abbreviations: np. → na przykład, itd. → i tak dalej, ul. → ulica, godz. → godzina, prof. → profesor.
- Foreign names get a Polish reading; respell them if needed.
A passage to record
Od tygodni chciałem to nagrać, więc zaczynamy. Jest spokojny wieczór, kawa gotowa, a ja wreszcie mam kilka minut
dla siebie. Zobaczmy, jak to brzmi.
"I'd been meaning to record this for weeks, so here we go. It's a quiet evening, the coffee's ready, and I finally have a few minutes to myself. Let's see how it sounds."
A dialogue to test with
Ola: Już jesteś? Czekam od ósmej.
Kuba: Przepraszam! Były straszne korki.
Ola: No dobrze, jesteś. Zamawiamy?Games and audiobooks
Poland has a large games industry and a strong audiobook market, and both are good fits for line-by-line voicing. See game dialogue and audiobooks. As always, have a native speaker review every line before release.