Also called: Voice Narrator
Reads and performs books out loud for audiobooks, voicing every character.
An audiobook narrator preps a script, then spends 6 hours a day in a sound booth reading carefully, doing voices and accents. Finishing one book can take 2-3 weeks.
Approximate. Narrators are typically paid $150-$400 per finished hour of audio; full-time narrators are relatively few.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
No formal education, about 0 years after high school. Acting or voice training; a home studio helps.
Ways in: Self-taught, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Theater, Communications.
Growing slowly. AI narration is entering the market rapidly.
High risk for 10 years. AI voices now narrate many audiobooks cheaply, cutting narrator work; premium titles still use humans.
Classes: Theater, Speech and debate, English literature, Choir.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-2011.
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