How to Successfully Market Your Business to a Spanish-Speaking Audience Many businesses are losing out on an incredibly rich and diverse potential audience. How can your business avoid this mistake? Invest in Spanish voiceovers! With a little forethought and effort, your business could reach a wide...
How to make your local business stand out through voice over We’ve all heard them when listening to the radio: cheesy, sing-songy ads for a local car dealership. While these kinds of commercials can be good for a laugh, they’re not great for a business’...
Audiobook narration versus documentary narration and when to use them Audiobook and documentary narration voiceover are two similar, yet different styles of voiceover. Both can be considered “narration voices,” yet documentaries offer video imagery to complement the spoken-word narration. Audiobook narration, on the other hand, can require...
Making sure the humor of your script translates to the final project Some people can say anything and make it funny. If you’ve written a fast-paced, witty script, this is exactly the kind of person you want voicing it. If it’s your first time casting...
Getting past the stereotypes to find the right voices for your animation There are certain stereotypes about animation that linger on to this day. Cartoons are assumed to be goofy and childish, with high-pitched, ridiculous voices. Sometimes, this is true; but the field of animation...
Three steps to determining whether you need a professional voice-over for your project. So, you need some voice-over for your upcoming video or audio project, but can’t you just do it yourself or call in one of your friends who has a nice voice? Do you...
Three types of projects that absolutely need a narration voice When you think of narration voices, you may think of a campy sound, like that “Same Bat-time, Same Bat-channel” guy from the old Batman TV show. Or maybe, you think of the droning voice on that...
The history and sociology of deep voices. A deep voice has long been associated with authority. Having evolved from a more patriarchal society in the early days of broadcast media when it was common for men to smoke cigarettes, the classic old-school announcer or deep voice...
Often voiceover scripts are written too fast, requiring talent to read much quicker than they would prefer. But then there are pros who can read that fast script and make it sound not so fast. How do they do it? For really fast scripts, especially legalese,...
Most voiceover copy requires a presentational style. To achieve a presentational style: Understand that you are not inside the action of the script, but rather looking down from above and commenting on what you observe. Imagine performing the script as if you were a standup comedian...
