Opportunities For Male Voice Over Talents

By Kristen Baird


There are dozens of situations in which a business or other institution might require Male Voice Over Talents. It's not easy to pay the rent doing this work exclusively, at least there isn't any one, narrow way into the field. There is no telling whether one might find oneself playing a character in a novel for an audiobook, recording pages of nonfiction prose for a documentary, or playing some other role.

Slightly faded but yet recognizable stars often accept sound studio acting roles because of their ease, when compared to visual media. There's no need for hours in makeup or costuming in a sound studio. Increasingly, even the biggest stars can be found doing voice for cartoon characters, particularly in feature-length cartoons. For many, the motivation is the pleasure of entertaining a largely child audience, but no one complains about earning a bit extra.

Luckily there aren't enough celebrities in Hollywood to meet the growing demand. This circumstance means there is work for anyone with the right talent. Usually, those with some experience on the stage or even just a good high-school acting class will have an advantage finding opportunities.

There are all kinds of acting, of course. This would include the salesman reading a script into a telephone the requisite eighty times per day, day in and day out. In many ways this is the ultimate performance, because the audience response is a sale made. Anyone with the skills to be a telemarketer might do well to explore voice opportunities as an extra income source, and anyone trying to make a living as a telemarketer might need the money.

Struggling bill-collectors, fund-raisers, and customer-service employees should also take note of this opportunity. Those in these lines of work automatically cultivate a sense for when they are communicating in the most effective manner possible. Eventually, their most perfect phone persona is typically something a bit different from who they are most of the time, not unlike a character in an audio book.

A deep, pleasant voice without any obvious indication of ethnicity or region probably brings the most opportunities, given the large portion of audio work that is simply the narration of written words. Far from acting out a character, those reading to record this sort of narration are almost trying to be completely anonymous. The text being read is the only "character" to be present, as though it were reading itself.

People with appealing personalities can succeed regardless of their accent. No one should be dissuaded because they sound like they came from somewhere rather than nowhere. There is need for those who can speak or at least recite languages other than English, bringing opportunities for Spanish speakers as well as speakers of Tagalog, Chinese, Polish, and several other languages.

A special few work exclusively doing audio work. Doing this calls for much more than a nice voice. Those who have made a profession off audio recording have both drive and attention to objective detail. At the very least, audio work can help one's budget by providing that second income source.




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