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Voice-Over Training: Advanced Voice-Over Techniques and Tips
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(110 ratings)
1,233 students

Voice-Over Training: Advanced Voice-Over Techniques and Tips

Discover Advanced Voice-Over Marketing Techniques to Boost Your Efficiency, Get More Clients and Maximise Your Income!
Last updated 8/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Watch this video to discover how you can easily Master Voice-Overs to Grow Your Audience and Income FAST!
  • You'll discover how to charge fairly without pricing yourself too high.
  • How to find jobs and clients in places that few other voiceovers will be looking!
  • How to be totally organised with your voice files and your invoicing so that you won’t miss another job, or lose demo files you urgently need.
  • How to work with client so they will always think of you first for future jobs that need a voice of your type.
  • Uncover 50 voiceover jobs you should be targeting.
  • PLUS The threat of AI to our work and what to do about it!

Course content

1 section24 lectures2h 20m total length
  • Introduction to Advanced Voice-Over Training2:03

    Advance your voiceover career with advanced techniques and practical bookkeeping, invoicing, and efficiency tips for pros with a home studio and regular clients to boost income.

  • The Udemy Student Support Center2:14
  • COURSE DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES0:03
  • How to Organise Your Voice-Over Files to be More Efficient and get More Done!7:20

    Organize your voiceover files on a single drive, then sort by year and month and name each file with clear client and project details.

  • Voice-Over Job Listing and Invoicing Efficiency6:46
  • Finding New Voice-Over Clients and Retaining Existing Clients8:25
  • Getting Your Voice-Over Website Found on the 1st Page of Google5:43
  • The 10 Commandments of Voice-Over Client Etiquette11:05

    Master the ten commandments of voiceover client etiquette to boost your career with fast replies, accurate names, easy file delivery, and respectful pricing.

  • Voice-Over Pricing - How Much Should You Charge?9:18

    price your voiceover work with a clear rate card for broadcast and non-broadcast uses, and include essentials like recording, editing, fast turnaround, and buyout terms.

  • Voice-Over Recording Techniques and Tips3:30

    Master the third head technique to monitor your voice in a home studio. Pair a look forward technique and earmarked listening to catch words early and speed up news bulletins.

  • How to Run Client Directed Voice-Over Sessions13:39

    Master client directed voice-over sessions with live feedback, using internet session links or source connect, while applying key scripting structure and practical tips.

  • How to Deal with Mistakes During Recordings5:13
  • How to Work With Challenging Scripts4:31
  • The Importance of Pronunciations BEFORE Recording Voiceovers7:02

    Check pronunciations before recording voiceovers, including names and client preferred accents such as British or North American. Build a pronunciation guide from client audio and resources to ensure seamless editing.

  • Expanding Your Voice Repertoire11:03

    Expand your voice repertoire by exploring character voices, control panel concepts like personality, accent, shape of the mouth, nasality, and speed, and learn to apply consistent, expressive delivery across styles.

  • Natural Vs Announcer Voice10:39

    Learn to sound natural instead of an announcer by adding intelligent imperfections, using ad-lib techniques, and acting a character to deliver authentic voice-over performances.

  • The Importance of Thinking of the Listener!2:43

    Imagine one ideal listener during every recording to deliver a focused, one-to-one performance. Visualize their mood and place to sharpen tone, pace, and longevity in the booth.

  • Keyboard Shortcuts for Faster Voice-Over Editing6:28

    Master keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Audition for rapid voice-over edits—normalization, multiband compression, silence, and volume adjustments—and learn practical breath handling for natural, audition-ready recordings.

  • How to Avoid Mouth Closure2:30

    Master advanced voice-over techniques to prevent mouth closure and lip smacks during recording. Focus on nasal breathing and close mouth habits, and consider nasal strips to stay open at night.

  • Recording Voice-Overs from Anywhere in the World!4:47

    Travel-friendly voiceover setups let you deliver regular work from hotel rooms using a mic, pop filter, and portable recorder, with a home equalizer preset and a soft noise gate.

  • The Fatigue Factor5:51

    Combat fatigue in voice-over sessions by taking breaks, limiting recording to two hours with twenty-minute chunks, and confirming tricky words with the author, while using gestures to maintain emphasis.

  • The Threat of Artificial Intelligence!5:24
  • 50 Shades of Voice-Over Work3:06

    Explore a wide range of voiceover work, from animation and game narration to IVR and museum audio guide. Reject ai training for voice data, the lecturer notes.

  • What Next...0:45

Requirements

  • You should be an existing voiceover artist with your own studio at home and already understand the basics of voiceover work.
  • The level of training is aimed at intermediate to advanced.

Description

Have you ever felt frustrated having set yourself up as a voiceover artist, also invested in decent home recording equipment, but finding very little voice work coming in? You know you have a good voice and a basic understanding of performance and recording techniques, but you really would like to boost your success? Would you like to learn the insider secrets of the Voiceover Masterclass team, knowing how to beat the competition and play the field to the maximum efficiency?


Are you spending ages editing when you wish you knew faster ways to get recordings done and invoiced?

And how about the best ways to deal with clients who are often annoying to work with and don’t understand the needs of the voice artist?!


Imagine having 40 years of professional voiceover experience in an easy to follow video based course to help you get on the fast-track to success!

Presented and written by veteran voice actor Peter Baker, here are all the things you won’t learn from books or YouTube videos about all the sometime small but incredibly important things to boost your voiceover career to the next level.


- Learn the only four times a voice artist’s mouth should be closed, and why.


- How never to lose audition files again when weeks later the client needs a read just like it urgently!


-How to find production companies that very few other voice artists think of targeting to get work.


-Why the generally considered “best” way to deal with pickups in recording is actually the worst and will waste you time!


-The main reason why voiceovers in their first directed session with a client don’t get asked again.


-How to fully understand “difficult” clients may offer a far better outcome than just getting angry with them!


-The main reason why voiceovers fail to invoice for jobs.


-The ways you can “future-proof” yourself against the threat of AI “computer voices” taking over our work


-The main ways you can speed up your editing considerably over and above the obvious keyboard short cuts.


-A huge tip to save both you and the client’s time when you need to ask for a pronunciation guide.


-How you can vastly increase your “hire-ability” in the voice market.


-The best ways to tackle voice fatigue in the booth.


- And so much more...


With 25,500+ students, a consistent rating of 4.5 out of 5-star reviews and THOUSANDS of 5-star reviews.. you can rest assured you'll be in good hands with a course from VoiceoverMasterclass!


About the Instructor:

Peter Baker (Writer and main presenter) has a Voice Actor for over 40 years, with hundreds of game, animation and audiobook credits and thousands of jobs for TV and radio commercials and promos for clients round the world. Peter is the author and presenter of many best-selling courses on Udemy and other platforms, featuring voice improvement, the voiceover business, presentation techniques for video, business writing, freelance working and corporate conference presentation


By the end of this course...


You will have so much more ammunition in your arsenal to win more auditions, be more organised in your voice studio, build stronger bonds with your clients and to boost your income.


Includes the “10 Commandments” of client etiquette, Top 10 Advanced Voiceover Tips, an invoicing template, and a full word-for-word transcript of all the videos as a downloadable PDF file.


So, are YOU excited about taking your voiceover or voice acting skills and business to the next level


If you're ready to get started -- then sign up to this new course today! No other course offers the same learning style, actionable steps and real-world examples that you'll find here!


(Don't forget Udemy offers a 30-Day 100% money back guarantee - so there's no risk involved if it's not for you).


Thank you for your time!

Who this course is for:

  • All voiceovers, voice actors and sound producers who want to increase their income and take their work to the next level.