What Does a Voice Talent Do?
Voice talents are the people that provide voiceovers for commercials, training videos, animated characters, and such like.
You here them all the time on televisions and screens; the hidden voices behind an infinite number of scenarios, anything from toilet paper ads to tutorial in your workplace.
Who’s it for?
- Anyone with good control over their voice
- Anyone who can express emotion well with their voice
- Anyone with a silky-smooth or compelling voice
- Anyone with a good vocal range
Skills
- Discipline to practice and perfect vocal intonation
- Ability to follow instructions from production leads
- Technical ability to record and self-produce audio files
- Acting ability will help depending on roles
Start Up
If you can talk, you can start.
As a voice talent, you can lend your voice to animated films, product videos, tv programs, video games, audiobooks, commercials, and more.
If you have your own recording equipment, you’ll be off to a flying start because you can directly apply to online agencies that will manage your portfolio. That means you don’t have to set up your own websites or any other online technical stuff.
The plenty of sites to get hooked up. Try voicetalentonline.com, voiceovers.com, voicebunny.com, and you’ll probably find more localised ones depending on where you live.
How You Make Your Income
The better your portfolio is the easier it will be to get the higher-paying jobs.
Different agencies will have different management fees, so be prepared to ask questions. A more reputable agencies may have higher fees, but they may also have higher-paying clients, so everyone wins.
It’s a very flexible pay scale in this industry. Some people are prepared to under cut on Fiverr and do jobs at throw away prices, but if you keep up-market you can get B2B gig that pay $200 for just 1 minute of voiceover.
Naturally, if you find yourself on bigger projects for larger companies you’ve probably hit the jackpot.
