The Benefits of Hiring Professional Voice Talent


by Ravok Corp - Date: 2007-08-16 - Word Count: 514 Share This!

Perhaps, after weighing the monetary cost of hiring a professional voice talent, you're still not really convinced it's worth the expenditure. After all, professionals do come with a price tag attached. If you haven't considered just what exactly a voice-over artist can do for you and your project, then of course, you are still focused on the money it will cost. If hiring a professional still feels kind of airy-fairy and unreal to you, take some time to consider what you would actually be getting.

A vocal professional knows how to use the quality of his or her voice to achieve results. That's why so many untrained voices grate on the ear. It isn't that the voice itself is bad; it's that its owner isn't sure how to use it. Take Marlon Brando's voice, for example. He's a cotton-mouth, and a nasally cotton-mouth at that. But, because he trained himself how to use those qualities, he instead developed a very distinctive, very enjoyable voice. That is what professional training can do for a voice, and you can have the benefit of that training without having to undergo it yourself.

A professional knows how to make a reading more dramatic, because he knows where to put the pauses. So much of speaking is about the timing. If you aren't used to paying attention to things like that, you may not realize good speakers make such frequent use of timing, or that it has such a dramatic effect - but it's true. In fact, they know how strongly or softly to say certain parts, how to bring attention to words or make words fade into the background. A trained vocal artist will be able to guide your listeners and cause them to think what you want them to think - good thoughts about your product, service or message.

But there is something that many people never stop to consider when deciding whether to hire a voice-over artist. When a professional has done something for a while, they learn how to do it quickly, and that includes getting to know their lines. understanding what the client has to have and learning the best way to deliver the material. While that may take an untrained person such as yourself many, many takes to even begin to pull it off, a professional vocal artist can accomplish it in a short amount of time. And we all understand that time equals money.

There are many things to consider when deciding whether to hire a voice-over artist. It is natural, of course, to think about the money, but that isn't the only consideration. You have to balance the cost of hiring a professional with the benefits they can provide for you. In order to do that, you need to understand just what services they provide and why they can do it better than you can. Then, if those things are important to you, it is obvious that your decision should be to use a professional.

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