How To Get Started With A Voice Over Profession

If you're looking for a job that is not like the other typical boring jobs, then you might like to try voice over job especially if you have a gift of having a good voice. You can have your own preference from the different categories of voice over like commercial, IVR, narration on audio books, voice over on cartoon characters which include acting, voice over on video games, and short jingles. To start with, you will need to download the Audacity app which you will use for your voice demo and its free.

And next is you will need to make a demo, you can choose a nice commercial and you can try to check it on Youtube. A shampoo commercial will do, then you can start transcribing it and rehearse in reading it. Your demo should be up to two minutes only. Make sure that you don’t forget one important tip which is when you read your script it should be in a conversational way. A free trial course is available which is the “The Voice Over For Beginners Course,” in www.gravyforthebrainteam.com.

They also have a voice over training which you will be asked to pay a little amount. You can access the free pod safe music in www.musicalley.com. For your sound effects, you can find it in www.freesound.org. I will give you a few of the voice over job websites and these are www.voice.com, www.voicebunny.com, and www.voice123.com. And make sure to adjust the Audacity settings in 7-9 level in noise reduction in order to get a perfect result. You can watch Youtube tutorials on how to use the Audacity app. That’s it, and I wish you luck with your job in voice-over and have fun.