What is Voice Over?

A voiceover is the spoken voice you hear on radio and television commercials. There is a voiceover behind cartoon characters, video narration, corporate training tapes, job orientation videos, educational videos, travelogues, infomercials, software programs and tutorials, audio books, talking kiosks, and telephone voice prompt menus and messages-on-hold.  Every time you hear a voice, remember that someone was hired to go into a studio and record their voice.  
           
Voiceovers provide an excellent source of extra income. Some of the more successful voiceover talents in the larger markets of the country work at it full time, and do extremely well   More frequently, you will find that it is a very enjoyable and profitable part time freelance opportunity, whether you are a student, a secretary, a construction worker, a corporate executive, or a couch potato.

Although many people who do freelance voiceover work have some amount of radio or TV experience, it is certainly not a prerequisite. However, it is "voice acting", and some acting training can be very beneficial. Convincing voice work truly is "theatre of the mind." 

With the proper training, practice, and knowledge, almost anyone who can read and speak can learn to do voiceovers.

Imagine stopping off at a studio on your way home from your regular job. You get behind the microphone, read a 30-second commercial a few times, and head for home with few hundred bucks coming your way. Not bad pay for fifteen minutes of work. Imagine going into the studio to record some narration for a video, and walking out an hour later some eight hundred dollars richer. This is the realistic potential of the voiceover business. 

Voiceover work is fun, exciting, challenging, unique, creative, respected, unpredictable, and very rewarding. Think of how you would feel to be watching TV and a commercial comes on the air with your voice on it!

Voiceovers allow you to be your own boss, make your own schedule, travel around, meet talented new people, and ultimately hear your very own voice on radio and television commercials.

No matter where you live, no matter what size the market, there is a gold mine of voice work just waiting for you. Put your voice to work for you!