“Arrr, hoist the colours.”
Pirate Captain
Rolled Rs, dropped Gs and a permanent grin — the full West Country pirate.
- Male
- West Country
- Adult
- Rough
- Rolling
- Boisterous
Sample script
Hoist the colours, ye scurvy dogs! There's not a harbour on this earth that'll have us after tonight!
How it reads
Pirate Captain runs on the stage-pirate accent that is really Cornish and West Country English, complete with rolled Rs and a heavy rhotic finish on every word ending in -er.
The delivery is loud and cheerful by default. Slow it down and it becomes threatening without losing the accent.
Nautical vocabulary is pronounced correctly, which is more than most voices manage with 'forecastle'.
Best for
- Kids' content and storytelling
- Game characters and quests
- Halloween and themed videos
- Comedy skits
At a glance
- Category
- Characters
- Gender
- Male
- Accent
- West Country
- Age
- Adult
- Character
- Rough, Rolling, Boisterous
Writing for it
Keep lines short
Low voices lose definition in long clauses. Four to eight words a sentence keeps every syllable legible.
Punctuate for the pause
A full stop gives a longer gap than a comma, an ellipsis longer still. Use them to place the beat.
It cuts through a mix
The texture here survives music and effects, so you can sit it lower against a loud bed.
Questions
Rolled Rs, dropped Gs and a permanent grin — the full West Country pirate. It is a male West Country voice in the characters category, characterised as rough, rolling, boisterous. Pirate Captain runs on the stage-pirate accent that is really Cornish and West Country English, complete with rolled Rs and a heavy rhotic finish on every word ending in -er.
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