What is voice-over?

Voice-over is an audio method of telling a story, informing an audience, enhancing the guest experience, or simply providing a consistent and recognisable audio image to a project, product, service, or company.

Alternately, voice-over is simply a voice laid over something else like video or other audio.

Voice-over is found in so many places in today’s world:

Why is voice-over used?

Voice over used for a variety of reasons, depending on the situation, output vehicle, and intended outcome.

For events, voice-over can help the effectiveness and efficiency by being an authoritative yet friendly ‘voice from the sky’ announcing program elements, providing introductions and throws to the on-stage components, and setting the overall tone of the event from the get-go.

For a video-based project, voice-over can provide the narration that tells your story and be a voice that helps bridge sections or interviews. Sometimes, the voice-over can be a distinctive voice that provides a break of humour or an air of gravitas, as is appropriate for the situation.

For a telephone system, voice-over helps provide a positive first impression for callers to your business or organisation. The voice on the line can help callers feel engaged and heard. Many companies even use their telephone systems and on-hold messages to inform callers of useful company details and/or a current promotion or offer.

Who uses voice-over?

Voice-over is used by companies and organisations of all sizes, in all sectors, and for all types of projects and events.

If there’s a telephone system, event, explainer video, conference, VR tour, or any other vehicle with video or audio, there’s an opportunity to employ voice-over!

Please visit My Voice-over Work for examples of projects and clients for which I’ve delivered voice-over services.

Why use a professional voice-over service?

Remember the first time you heard your own voice recorded? For many people, that memory never fades and the feelings associated remain strong. Now imagine the feeling of having ‘that’ voice recorded and played back to hundreds or thousands of strangers. It can all be quite overwhelming.

Or maybe you’ve got past that fear of your own recorded voice, but the idea of going on stage still causes you to go weak in the knees.

A professional voice-over service takes that pressure off you and your team and allays any fear of mis-pronouncing a name or hitting a cue at the wrong time.

A professional voice-over service will take the time to carefully review scripts and research the pronunciation of challenging words, names, and phrases. A professional service will also bring forward any opportunities to improve the script from a flow or phrasing perspective.

A professional voice-over service will provide you or your production team a clean audio file, ensuring the highest quality possible for your project.

Most importantly, a professional voice-over service will listen to you and work with you to deliver exactly what you need and desire for your project.

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If you’re interested in using voice-over for your project or event, please contact me today for a chat. I look forward to hearing from you.