Online Voice Agencies
All charge a fee for premium listing and or the ability to
audition, but joining for free creating a profile and also seeing what you are
offered can help make YOU make the decision to pay the subscription, if you
think you will get the work.
Voices.com
They Say
About Voices.com
Voices.com is the online marketplace that connects
businesses with voice over talent.
Every now and then a company arises whose steely focus,
passion for innovation and burning desire to change the world truly makes an
impact. Voices.com strives to achieve amazing things through the talent and
faith of ordinary people.
I Say
They are a bit American have the Escrow way of paying
(that’s a good thing) but start with a FREE account and make sure you check the
client out, you can often find their website etc. Steer clear of some Indian companies particularly
Pakistan. Never record the whole
of their script, just a portion.
Voice Bunny
They Say
Voicebunny.com
All voice actors have professional home studios and
equipment.
Mr. Bunny is one picky rabbit! Less than 1 in 10 voice
actors that apply get accepted to work for him. All audio is screened for
quality by Mr. Bunny's entourage of experts. Mr. Bunny only delivers edited,
ready-to-use audio from the best voice actors for your project. Our high speed,
high quality, and low cost, is the result of our proprietary technology,
Hare9000™. If you don't like a recording, you don't pay for it, period! Yeah,
Mr. Bunny is fanatical about customer service (and carrot cake). Did you find a
better deal somewhere else? That's continuum universe impossibility.
Regardless, Mr. Bunny will match it! Contact us.
I Say
They are the cheap Voice123.com end of the market and I do
not get much work, because I was invited it was free to join Voice Bunny but
there are plenty of clients on VoiceBunny
Voice123
American based and slightly lower end work compared to
Voices.com but similar to Voices.com
Piehole.co.uk
A UK/Irish based agency
They say:
Founded in 2006, Piehole is a voice over directory. We don't
act as an agent, but instead make it easier for you to contact voiceovers and
their representatives easily. We were inspired by difficulty in sourcing a good
enough selection of voice over work for advertising agencies. We don't take a
commission for work. We take on a selected number of voice overs each year and
ensure the quality of the voices on our site through our custom quality control
systems.
We are here to help you find the perfect voice for your
project.
Priscilla Groves
CEO, Piehole.
I Say
Have not really given them a fighting chance to can’t
comment on how successful you might be at getting work. I have spoken to them in the past and
found them very polite and happy to help and support voiceover talent. I don’t
know how many active clients they have though.
The Voice Archive
Europe’s leading voice agency – 1200 voiceover pofessionals
and more than 70 languages.
About VoiceArchive.co.uk - Giving global brands a voice
VoiceArchive is Europe's leading voice over agency with a
strong foothold in the global voice over market. With more than 1,200 native
voice over professionals in over 70 languages and local offices around Europe,
our Danish HQ facilitates professional voice overs for TV and cinema
commercials, eLearning, broadcast, phone prompts, gaming, video presentations,
navigation technology, PowerPoints, audiobooks, etc.
Customers count advertising agencies, film production
companies, broadcast networks, content syndication companies and eLearning
providers facilitating large scale productions that raise the voice of global
brands such as Apple, IKEA, Adobe, Microsoft, Vestas, Arla, HP, Dell, Coca
Cola, SAP, Avis, Pfizer, Lego, IBM, Sony and many more.
I Say
Again I never been able to join the Archive – either they
don’t like me or they have enough British voiceovers on their listings. Have recently tried again so will keep
this blog updated.
Glocal Media
They say:
Good idea! You’ve decided to improve the impact and reach of
your message by putting it into other languages. We’re guessing you need
accessible prices, high quality results and fast turnround?
Excellent, you’ve come to the right place… find out more
Based in central London since 2004, we encompass over 200 languages for your
requirements in broadcast, DVD, Web or written text. We have a wealth of
experience in all sectors and -as a one-stop-shop - we’ll provide everything
you need.
What’s more we offer a three hour turnround on quotes - so
can we help you today?
Their application criteria
VO Artist
Requirements – send us your voice sample in WAV or MP3
format, on CD or by email. Our voice over services encompass all genres
including commercials, documentaries and corporate projects, so please ensure
your voice sample can demonstrate your versatility.
Send your voice sample (WAV or MP3) and a brief covering
letter to voiceover@glocalmedia.com
I Say
Have tried to contact them had no response so far.
Golocalise
Voice Over
We produce top quality sound for anything that requires the
recording of voices in English as well as in foreign languages: online courses,
documentaries, games, corporate videos, sales videos, TV/radio commercials,
sports broadcasts, telephony
(IVR/on hold messages, location sound), conferences/shows, PowerPoint
presentations, dubbing for films and animation.
Language directors/supervisors
At GoLocalise, the voice over process is overseen by
language directors, i.e. native speakers who ensure the correct delivery,
pronunciation and intonation of the script. This speeds up the recording process by minimising the need
for re-takes, thus saving valuable studio time and reducing the overall costs
of the session.
Criteria for applying
Work for us
We are continuously expanding our portfolio of freelancers.
We welcome applications from translators, copywriters,
editors, actors, broadcasters and voice over artists from all over the world.
If you are a voice over artist based in or around London, we can call you in
for projects in our state-of-the-art studio. We are also interested in hearing
from voice talents anywhere in the world with professional recording facilities
to work on our many remote voice jobs.
I Say
I really should submit a demo as we follow each other on
Twitter.
Your demo should contain a good mixture of corporate,
commercial, educational and any other experience you have in the field, to show
off the full range of your skills. Also make sure you include a sample of your
voice in English with your foreign accent. Please attach the latest copy of
your CV and all your contact details.
VoicesPro.com
Polite and nice team, they offered my a year of Premium
Membership to invite students to use their service. A lot of the work is ‘actor’ based, involves going somewhere
or doing something. There is a
section of no paid work that if you think will raise your profile – you can
think about applying for.
Starnow.co.uk
Have some nearly all unpaid work that you might like to
consider to raise your profile.
OnlineVoices.com
Criteria to apply
Register your voice – It
takes 5 minutes!
Click on ‘LOGIN’ at the
top of the page. As a new user, you can click through to the registration site
which only takes a few minutes to fill in. Once you’ve submitted your info and
demos, we go through everything and we then publish your profile if we feel
that you have the right qualities to be added to the site. Remember that our
customers at Online Voices demand top quality voices, so please read through
the criteria we are looking for when you register.
It’s completely free
Having your voice on Online Voices will cost you
nothing. There’s no registration fee, no subscription fees and no hidden costs.
It’s completely free.
What you need
First and foremost, you need experience of recording
voiceovers. Secondly you need to either work from a good quality home studio or
live close to a professional studio.
Your demos need to be well
produced, high quality mp3s. The more demos you have, the more chance you have
of being selected by visitors to Online Voices.
To have the most impact you
should have demos that can be categorized as commercial, informative and
character. Please also submit demos with regional accents, or speaking a
different language (we often have requests for English with a foreign accent).
The length of each demo
should not be over 30 seconds and should mostly be without background music.
You also have the
possibility to attach a video demo or a link to YouTube or Vimeo. If you don’t
have a demo we can cut a demo for you for a small fee.
WARNING - UKVoices.co.uk
I have heard nothing good about this site, some of the
things that have been said by others include:
“Months ago I signed up with a number of agencies, UK Voices being one.
They were the only agency to charge a fee, but they had a comprehensive “money
back” offer if you don’t get work through them, as long as you audition for one
job per week.
Given that other agencies I’m on generally have anything up to 10 jobs
per week, I figured that’s not too bad and I may as well spread my wings as far as
possible, and signed up.
The issues I’ve encountered:
* You never see the UK Voices ‘jobs’ advertised on any other agency site, nor vice versa. All the
others have noticable crossover.
* As mentioned above…phone-in auditions? Especially if half the point of
them is that you’re saying you can work from home; you need -proof- of your
home setup and its quality.
* There is no confirmation of application
* There is no feedback from applications
* Jobs appear perhaps two per week, or sometimes not at all, which leads me nicely
into….
* The “money back” promise. The fine print states that you get a refund
if you a) apply for one job per week, and b) do not get into the ‘final
shortlist’ for any job you apply for. The problem here is twofold.
i) Most weeks, there is at least one ‘job’ to apply for. However, twice
now there have been gaps of more than two weeks between advertised jobs.
According to their conditions, as you didn’t apply for a job in that time,
you’re out of the money back offer. Never mind that there were no new jobs to
apply for.
ii) As there is no feedback, you don’t know whether you’ve got through
to the ‘final shortlist’ of anything. All they would have to do is say “well, you were
shortlisted for (pick “job” at random here)” and they get out of it that way
also.
As you can tell, I bitterly regret joining the site, but most of all I bitterly
regret coughing up £60 which I’m not going to see again.”
I cannot substantiate this review as I have tried
to contact UK Voices and failed.
Summary
Like any
product or service – go in with your eyes open and make proper informed consumer/review
based decisions about whether YOU think that an online agency is right for you.
