Château de Versailles
Audio guide excerpt — narration for the Japanese route through the palace and its history.
Akira Kataoka · Japanese Audio Guide Narrator
The Japanese voice for your museum & heritage tours.
I'm Akira Kataoka, a Tokyo-based Japanese voiceover artist. My voice guides Japanese visitors through museums and heritage sites around the world — warm, clear and paced for people on the move.
Voice Arts Awards winner — three awards, 2024 & 2026
Japanese voiceover artist, Tokyo
Selected workChâteau de Versailles · UK Parliament · The National Gallery · Les Invalides · Château de Malmaison · Belvedere Palace and moreGuiding Japanese visitors at museums and heritage sites around the world
Demos
Audio guide excerpts — straight narration, and dubbing of curators and on‑site experts into Japanese — plus two voice styles for different routes and audiences. Recorded in my own broadcast‑quality studio.
UK Parliament
Japanese dubbing of the Palace of Westminster's own guides and staff — their commentary, re‑voiced for Japanese visitors.
The National Gallery
Japanese dubbing of the Gallery's curators talking about the paintings — paced for visitors standing in front of the work.
Adult Narrator
Calm, trustworthy guide voice for galleries, palaces and historic sites.
Young Speaker
Bright, friendly delivery for family routes, kids' tours and casual apps.
What you get
Everything you need from a Japanese voice partner, from one point of contact.
i.
Native Japanese narration
Natural, visitor‑friendly Japanese for museums, heritage sites, city tours and apps.
ii.
Multiple voices, one contact
Need several characters or routes? I can cast additional trained Japanese narrators from my network.
iii.
Pronunciation & script check
Proper names, places and historical terms checked; awkward translated phrasing flagged before recording.
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Delivered to your spec
File format, naming, loudness and splits exactly as your production requires.
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Time‑zone advantage
Based in Japan (UTC+9), I can record while your team is offline — handy for tight European and US schedules.
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Clear, fair rates
Quotes based on the GVAA Rate Guide, per project.
How it works
Simple and predictable — the way a production schedule should be.
Send the script
Share the script, word count and delivery specs.
Quote & sample
Receive a quote, plus a short custom sample if you need one.
Record & edit
Clean, edited files recorded in my studio, checked for pronunciation.
Deliver
Files delivered to your format, with revisions handled quickly.
About
Akira Kataoka
Japanese voiceover artist
Independent narrator, casting director and voice coach. Founder of hitocoe, a community of Japanese narrators.
- Tokyo, Japan (UTC+9)
- instagram.com/akiranarrator
- linkedin.com/in/akirakataoka
I'm Akira Kataoka, a Japanese voiceover artist based in Tokyo. Through audio guides, my voice accompanies Japanese visitors at museums and heritage sites around the world. I also narrate commercials, corporate and documentary films, and I cast and direct other Japanese voices. Alongside narration work, I run hitocoe, a community of Japanese narrators. That network is how I can offer additional Japanese voices when a project needs them.
My work has been recognised with three Voice Arts Awards (2024 and 2026).
Let's work together
Have a Japanese route coming up?
Tell me about the project — and paste a few lines of script if you'd like a short custom sample, free and with no obligation.