Voiceover work includes TV, radio, film, video games, and audiobooks. Jobs include dubbing, narration, character voices, and commercials, with different skills required for each. Experienced actors are preferred for commercials, while audiobook readers need a smooth, expressive voice.
The different types of voiceover work can be categorized into media or products involving television, radio, film, video games and audiobooks. Some of them mainly require a distinct and clear voice, while others also require considerable talent as an actor. Advertisements, cartoon character voiceovers, voice acting, promotions, storytelling, and reading fiction or non-fiction books to audio recordings are some of the different types of voiceover jobs.
A voice-over actor may specialize in fiction or non-fiction audio book recordings. Some of these voice over readers even have an entire career in this field of voice over work when they get some experience in the field. These “tape books” can be for people who are blind, elderly or in hospitals. Readers of these audiobook voiceover jobs are usually expected to have a smooth, lively voice with plenty of expression and fluctuation in pitch.
Narrators often have a unique and richly distinctive voice, such as the deep, dramatic voice of James Earl Jones. Voiceover voiceover jobs can include television or film documentaries as well as promos. Television, radio, or movie promotions require the announcer to use the ideal combination of enthusiasm and likelihood to convince viewers or inspiring listeners to come back for other shows. A promotional voice over actor for radio or television will usually identify the station first, then the time and date of the particular program.
Dubbing voiceover work involves watching the on-screen image of a human, animal, or cartoon actor and voicing the script lines to match the mouth movements as closely as possible. Dubbing is considered a bonus skill in the voice over industry. Actors or performers capable of expressing different dialects and accents are likely to do well in this type of voiceover work.
Voice actors who provide voices for animated or cartoon characters are often capable of many unique characters. They cannot simply be reworked voices that have been heard many times before, but quite new and interesting. These types of voiceover jobs can be for animated films, television shows, or video games. Animated voice actors must have a talent for using different pitches, volumes and modulations, or pitching up and down.
Television and radio commercials are popular types of voiceover work, although they can be competitive for actors. Casting directors for commercials are looking for a kind of sales voice, not just a new or interesting one. They prefer seasoned actors, as you have to create a character when doing commercials, much like what a television show requires of actors on camera, but much shorter in length.
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