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"Could you wait a moment, please?" (A supermarket clerk) | Japanese Voice Sound Effect

Recorded on September 12, 2026 in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan, in the soundproof room of an apartment in Shimo-Meguro, this is a recording of the Japanese line "Could you wait a moment, please?" spoken by a supermarket clerk. The recording lasts about 2.6 seconds. It is available only as WAV.

The WAV is 44.1 kHz, 16-bit stereo, with a peak of about -9.5 dBFS and an average level of about -26.7 dBFS. There is about 10 dB of headroom above the peak. There is almost no silence at the start or end.

Region
Meguro, Tokyo
Location
The soundproof room of an apartment in Shimo-Meguro
Recorded
2026-09-12
Duration
00:03
Commercial use
Allowed
Attribution
Not required
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About this sound
Japanese name
接客表現 (Sekkyaku Hyōgen)
Reading
せっきゃくひょうげん

In Japanese shops, hotels, and other service settings, staff often use polite, situation-specific phrasing. Alongside honorific (keigo) and polite speech forms, set customer-service phrases such as "irasshaimase" are also commonly used. These recordings are scripted examples of Japanese customer-service phrases recorded for TOMU'S SOUND LIBRARY.

Source: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan — Guidelines on Honorific Language