An Artist’s Muse
The nine Greek Muses and what each one presides over, plus why a voice actor alone in a booth doing retakes might want one of their own.
Category: Marketing your Voice
7 Ways to Effectively Manage Your Time for Voice Over Work
Seven time management tips for voice actors, from setting up a home studio to reviewing your calendar weekly and making dead time count.
My Voice Actor Life’s New Years Resolution
A working voice actor sits down with next year’s goals: a mic upgrade, better follow-through on audition deadlines, and finally building that website.
YouTube, Ads, and Voice Overs
Why YouTube works as both a source of voice over projects and a place to host demos that point traffic back to your own site.
When the Voiceover Script Does Not Call For Words or Your Normal Voice
Some scripts are all grunts, baby cries and shrimp singing. A look at the voice actors behind those wordless roles, and whether you’d take the gig.
The Voice Over Approach
Five basics for sounding convincing in commercial reads: articulation, tone, tempo, volume, and actually listening back to your own recordings.
How Voice Actors Study Their Lines
Four habits that help voice actors get inside a script, from studying other performers to treating every take like it’s the first one.
The Long Term Impact On Ad Appeal
A brain scan study of 200 TV ad viewers found stories and emotion stick, hard sells don’t. That’s why so many scripts ask for a natural, light read.
Which Social Media To Promote With?
Global social media rankings put QQ, WeChat and QZone near the top, and that’s worth knowing if you’re marketing your voice work to Asian clients.
Dubbing Voice Over Actors Experiences
Four dubbing actors, from Mexico to China, on matching lip movements, working to brutal deadlines, and why their names rarely hit the credits.
