It started years ago with the celebrity voice over for your answer machine, now through a miraculous suggestion you can have your old boring Satellite Navigation voice replaced with a celebrity voice over. So How Did Sat-Nav Famous Voices Come About? A simple idea started from an Richard Garner on Facebook spread so fastly over…
Enhancing profitability and growing the business are key facets to any company’s success. Achieving both of those goals is typically influenced by a wide assortment of factors including telecommunications. Now that technology has given the world VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol capability, it is important for forward-thinking businesses to implement VoIP services into their…
Are you struggling to get your message across to engage your listeners? Voice-over speakers, pod-casters, and radio announcers have only the sound of their voices to impress their listeners effectively. Your voice is a distraction or an attraction, for your audience to either tune you in, or tune you out. Unless you are doing unique…
Elegant Way to Use Voice Overs Yes, even if you can’t speak Chinese, there is an elegant alternative for you to communicate with your Chinese customers: use professional Chinese voiceovers. This is a smart way to reach a wide Chinese audience. And did you know that Chinese is the world’s most popular language? Statistics show…
A voice over told me recently that she got an enquiry for a local radio station jobby. She quoted £ 100 (which is fair quote for a local station IMHO). And then the radio station replies "eh, how about £ 16.50 instead?" So she ended up doing the job for £ 16.50. I think this…
When it comes to voice actors, you may think that only the big corporations need them. It's clear, if you're paying attention, that big companies like American Express and movie cinemas use professionals to perform their commercials. They do, after all, have the finances for it. But what about you? Have you ever thought that…
A solid voiceover script is the key to success for your podcast or your radio and television commercials. Writing voiceover scripts that are compelling and persuasive is very different from writing print ads and small blurbs that appear on online advertisements. Peter Drew, an experienced voice over artist who provides voiceovers via the Internet and…
Price is important when employing a cheap voice overs artist, but it is not even close to everything. There are more elements to consider which might be just as crucial such as the quality of their finished product, dependability, ease of communication and confidence in them. In fact, employing a voice over artist that is…
Nihongo is a Japanese language spoken by 130 million people in Japan, as well as Japanese immigrant countries. Nihongo is a part of the Japonic language, which has a relationship with a number of other proposed languages. Japanese has a small sound inventory, distinguished by a system of honorifics, which often reflect on the Japanese…
The biggest mistake voice over artists make – and that includes some professionals – is using the wrong microphone. It can wreck your work. If you market yourself on Voice123.com or Voices.com, the wrong microphone will insure you don't get hired, or if you do, that you won't get hired by that same person again.…
The voice actors for The Simpsons landed one of the best gigs in the biz! The show is the longest running TV sitcom in American history, it has won 24 Primetime Emmy Awards and after 500 episodes it’s still going strong. The voice actors for The Simpsons are getting an estimated $400,000 per episode. The…
Let’s face it, quoting for voice over work is every voice over artist’s nightmare. It’s complicated, people have a range of budgets, and there are tons of different types of media. Every day I deal with lots of voice over enquiries. Mostly, my experience is that voice overs hate quoting, and as a result, they…
Here’s a look at the best cities for various kinds of voice over work: New York City, NY New York City is the place to go for the best voice over work for advertisements. With most of the top advertising agencies located in the Big Apple, it makes sense that the biggest voice talents for…
Setting rates for voice over work has always been a headache. How much should you charge your clients for using your voice? How much should you charge your clients for your studio facility? How much should you charge your clients for your time spent converting the audio in the appropriate format? How much should you…
In case you need to use a voice over artist but it’s your first-time going down this road, there are a few prevalent pitfalls you should know about. It’s quite easy to find skilled voice talent on-line, but what’s difficult is finding a great one and finding exactly what you want from their particular services.…