Tips for Working with Voiceover Talent

Hi Tim,

We generally use voiceover talent for our clients and a couple of things that I've learned are:

Make sure the voiceover person is clear on any words that could be pronounced incorrectly. When I worked for another organisation, the ID would go along to the recording so could address any pronunciations but now we send the script away, so we write words phonetically that may cause an issue.

Another is to have a read over - out loud - of the script to make sure it sounds ok when spoken. One time I was in a rush and didn't check properly and the voiceover person read what was on the script even thought there was a word that was out of place.