Tips For Those Exploring Voice Acting

Welcome to Voice Over Experts, brought to you by Voices.com the number one voice over marketplace. Voice Over Experts brings you tips, pearls of wisdom, and techniques from top instructors, authors and performers in the field of voice over. Join us each week to discover tricks of the trade that will help you to develop your craft and prosper as a career voice over talent. It’s never been easier to learn, perform and succeed from the privacy of your own home, and at your own pace. This is truly an education you won’t find anywhere else. Now for our special guest.
Mike Kirby: Hi, Mike Kirby here at the Voiceworx studios. We all love to do voice work because it’s quick, unpredictable, pays well and it doesn’t matter how we’re dressed. Voice work can be intensely exciting too. Just you, the microphone, a page of text and that wonderful sound of your voice resonating in your headsets. Thirty years after I started I’m still doing voice work. Apart from the normal visits to Toronto sound studios for commercial and narration sessions, I’ve got some clients who read me farther afield by way of phone patches to my home studio. Now thanks to modern technology I can walk into my studio, put on my headphones, step up to the microphone and talk to Oklahoma, Dubai, Bermuda, Hong Kong, anywhere.
Today, most established voice performers have home studios in which they use their signature voices to service radio and TV stations and commercial and corporate clients on an ongoing basis. Not too long ago being a network voice, for example, meant giving over to regular visits to their studio maybe three, four, five times a week. Nowadays you can take your microphone and computer with you anywhere, anywhere you want to go and send your voice through the internet by way of an mp3 file, for example, without any loss of quality. Today the possibilities are limitless for voice over talent. Technology allows us to service an international clientele just by setting up a website and advertising our voice demos across the world on voices.com.
And so voice performers, practice hard, create a great demo, build a list of producers, always say yes and the next thing you know you’ll be living your dreams too. Now you can reach me on the voiceworx.com website, that’s voiceworx with an X.com. Or email me, [email protected] and let’s have a chat. Over and out.
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