How To Make a Voice Over Demo
Your Demo Showcases Your Best Work
The first tool that you'll need is a marketable voice-over demo. Your demo will present your voice to clients. They can listen to it and evaluate your services first-hand. Creating a variety of voice-over demos rounds out your portfolio showcasing the styles of voice-over that you can perform.
Voice Over Demo Categories
- Television Commercials
- Television Imaging and Station Identification
- Radio Announcers
- Radio Commercials
- Radio Imaging and Station Identification
- Business Demonstrations
- Business Presentations and Corporate Videos
- Voicemail, On-Hold Messaging, IVR
- Entertainment and Celebrity Impersonations
- Character Voices and Cartoon Voice Actors
- Video Game Voices, Computer Game Voices
- Audiobooks, Books on Tape
- Educational Videos, CD-rom, e-Learning
- Government
- Medical
- Foreign Language Voice Overs
- Translation Services
- Music
- Jingles
- Music Composition, Music Production
Ideal Duration of a Voice-Over Demo
The voice-over demo can range between 45 seconds to 2 minutes and 30 seconds. For distribution on the Internet, it is best to keep your demo to 1 MB in size or approximately 1 minute in duration. A 1MB file delivers optimum download speeds while maintaining the highest quality of digital audio.
Voice-Over Demo File Formats
The universal standard audio file for delivery on the Internet is called MPEG-3 or more commonly known as MP3. You should make your voice-over demo available in MP3 format for easy distribution to clients via email or for convenient download on your webpage. The MP3 file should be encoded at the bit rate of between 128kbps (standard) to 160kbps (medium) to 320kbps (highest) for optimum quality yet maintaining a relatively small file size for delivery over the Internet.
Download Documents
- How to Make a Voice Over Demo
- Download this Squidoo Lens as a PDF directly from Voices.com
- Getting Started in Voice Overs
- Download the popular Getting Started in Voice Overs guide.
- Voice Over Rate Sheet
- Download the industry standard Voice Over Rate Sheet and know how much to charge for your voice-over services.
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