JOBS TO EXPLORE FOR VOICE ARTISTS

Have you ever dream of hearing your voice in a radio AM/FM, television, and other media outlets?  Are you wondering how the voice we c...

Have you ever dream of hearing your voice in a radio AM/FM, television, and other media outlets? 

Are you wondering how the voice we can hear from train stations, malls, airport terminals and phone service operators being produced? 

Do you see yourself as a person who can do voice acting and dubbing?

First of all, Voice Acting is an art. This is the process of using one's voice to give life to animated films, radio recordings, television commercials and other outlets through the use of a voice over and dubbing. 

In the Philippines, this kind of industry is just starting to move into a higher level, for more than a decade of perseverance of all the voice actors, the industry lives not just by dubbing and voice acting but by providing workshop for those people who aspires to get involved in the industry. 
The importance of this kind of industry is can be seen  in all varieties of media platforms, such as  in animated films, telecommunications, commercials and other related stuff. If you can see yourself doing these stuff you should give a try attending workshops or seminars about dubbing and voice acting. After those trainings, your are now ready to do some work, work, work! Here's the list of jobs to explore.

What are the jobs for Voice Artists?
According to Gravy for the Brain website, these are some voice-over works waiting if you are well-trained voice artist.
1. Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) voice-over

This kind of voice-over is used to dub the low quality videos such as TV series and documentaries to have a good quality presentation.

2. Anime voice-over

For Otaku (Anime Fans) Voice Artists out there, this is a great deal for you! In this kind of voice-over work is challenging as it requires the voice artists to have a sheer vocal range. This genre is some of the most avoided among voice artists because of fear of damaging their vocals. 

3. Audio books voice-over

As the technology advances, the rise of audio books made its way to the mainstream entertainment. Many voice artists aspires to be a narrator of some famous books and novels. The job of voice artists here is to combine the theatrical and commercial voice acting skills to narrate and tell the stories in the book the way it should be.

4. Cartoon voice-over

This type of work is usually for motion pictures. The voice artists in this kind of job needs to have a high vocal range because sometimes they're require to dub more than one character.

5. Commercial voice-over

Commercials are part of advertising industry that spends a lot of money. Other than that, the company always hire voice-over artists to help in the promotion of their products through voice acting.

6. E-learning voice-over

Same as audio books, E-learning became mainstream as the digital technology arises. This includes video learning materials that needs voice-overs from artists. 

7. Internet voice-over

Just like in television commercials, internet is also main outlets for voice talents as they can work on dubbing presentations.

8. Radio voice-over 

This is the most common venue for voice artists to use their skills to do radio dramas, for example.

9. Telephone voice-over

Companies uses different voices for their branding and telecomm companies are not exemption of it.

10.Video Gaming voice-over 

It is the same as the anime and cartoon dubbing but for games.

Watch this short video for more insights about Voice acting and Dubbing.