Best Practices for Providing Files to Professional Voice Over Artists

Jan 03, 2023

What are your best practices/ tips for providing files to voice-over artists when you are outsourcing your narration? Similarly, what works best when the files are delivered back to you? Thanks.

3 Replies

Judy Nollet
Hero

over 1 year ago01/03/23 at 8:30 pm (UTC)

Nowadays, I'd check with the narrator about their preferences re: font, size, etc.

The script could be within a two-column table:

Each row of the table would represent one audio clip.
The first column would contain the text to be read.
The second column would contain the name that the audio file should be given.

Other tips:

For initialisms, put hyphens between the letters to indicate each letter is pronounced separately. For example: "F-B-I."
Include pronunciations where they might be needed, such as for industry-specific terms.
Spell out how you want numbers to be pronounced. For example: instead of "1100," you might have "one thousand and one hundred" or "eleven hundred."

Sarah Hodge
Staff

over 1 year ago01/04/23 at 2:01 pm (UTC)

Hi Heather! Thanks for posting your question here! Judy shared some really helpful ideas and tips. I agree that it's a good idea to check with the narrator first. They may already have a list of how they want the files prepared. This article also has some great pointers on making the script-writing process efficient and effective - More Than a Dozen Tips for Writing Awesome Audio Narration Scripts. I hope that helps!

over 1 year ago01/09/23 at 5:50 am (UTC)

Sarah Hodge

Hi Heather! Thanks for posting your question here! Judy shared some really helpful ideas and tips. I agree that it's a good idea to check with the narrator first. They may already have a list of how they want the files prepared. This article also has some great pointers on making the script-writing process efficient and effective - More Than a Dozen Tips for Writing Awesome Audio Narration Scripts.we become what we behold I hope that helps!

We should try them.