Also called: VO Artist, Promo Voice
Records voices for TV and radio ads, explainer videos, and corporate training.
A voice-over artist auditions from a home studio every morning, books a car commercial, records it remotely while the client listens live, and is done in an hour.
Voice work is freelance and paid per session or project. SAG-AFTRA scale for TV animation is roughly $1,000+ per session; most voice actors piece together commercials, games, e-learning, and animation.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
No formal education, about 0 years after high school. Voice training; home studio.
Ways in: Self-taught. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Communications, Theater.
Shrinking. AI voices are replacing much low-budget narration.
High risk for 10 years. AI voices now read many ads, explainers and promos cheaply, sharply cutting routine voice-over work.
Classes: Speech and debate, Theater, Broadcast journalism, English.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-2011.
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