Want a cheap voiceover? Or do you want a great one?

There are a lot of ways to get yourself a cheap voiceover.

Use a voice clone program, find a beginner on a freelance site, ask your little cousin who happens to own a microphone… approach a professional voice actor in a vulnerable moment and convince them to sell their soul…

Please don’t do that.

But you know how it goes: you can have fast and cheap, but it won’t be great. You can have cheap and okay, but it won’t be fast… and you can have fast and fabulous. It won’t be cheap.

Because here’s what you actually want (and you’ll get!) when you hire a professional voice actor:

Great audio quality

This is important in this fast-paced world of ours because people are listening to content all the time, and every human and their dog knows what good audio sounds like now. Think how long it takes you to give up watching when a YouTube video has crappy sound.

Professional voiceover artists have professionally treated spaces to record in, high-quality equipment, and a stack of skills with software and gadgets to make it all sound delicious.

Emotional nuance and connection

A voice actor who’s spent a lot (trust me, it’s a lot) of time on their craft is a very good actor as well as a very good reader of words. They will add a level of human emotion and just the right personality to the voiceover… those skills took time and money to learn, and are worth paying for.

No, it doesn’t matter if your script is “just” a dry corporate explainer… when humans are listening, they feel human things and if they feel connected and emotional about your brand, they will respond positively… that means good things for your company’s reputation – and bank accounts.

Accurate results

You want the voiceover to sound a certain way. A pro voice actor will do exactly what you need. We know the lingo, we know the genre we’re working in, and we are trained to make it sound how you imagine it. Even if you don’t know quite the right words to explain it…we know what you mean. That’s our job.

Speed and reliability

Your cousin with the cool microphone probably has to wait until their pesky brother’s not home and the chores are done and they, well, feel like getting it done.

A  professional voice actor gives you a timeframe, works everything into their flexible pro-creative-person schedule, and delivers before you need it. Easy peasy.

So….. you might think you can save your bosses some money by finding cheap voiceover, but what you’re actually saving them from is a whole stack of new loyal customers who would have been attracted to the human storytelling in your media content.

Oops. 😅