Performing well when narrating audiobooks is only one of the challenges to being a successful VO artist in that category. Using a fast and accurate method to record, edit and master that work for Audible’s ACX.com is an equally important and necessary skill set to have, freeing you to fully take advantage of this amazing site’s opportunities. In this first of two parts, we look specifically at prepping your recording session, and recording with high quality, and ease of editing.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Recording For ACX With Audacity - Part 2

Performing well when narrating audiobooks is only one of the challenges to being a successful VO artist in that category. Using a fast and accurate method to record, edit and master that work for Audible’s ACX.com is an equally important and necessary skill set to have, freeing you to fully take advantage of this amazing site’s opportunities. This second of 2 parts will show you how to edit and master, then upload to ACX the recordings you made in Part 1.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Voicing Non-Fiction Audiobooks

Following the adage of “ready, shoot, aim” in adjusting and perfecting your approach to your career, this first of two classes leads you through an inventory of what equipment and software you have and how it’s tuned, your demo portfolio and how it’s deployed and how your performances have been, and can be even better.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Systems Tuneup - Part 2

Following the adage of “ready, shoot, aim” in adjusting and perfecting your approach to your career, this second of two classes leads you through an inventory of what areas to market your specific VO brand to, a scan of your current client base and how they can lead to more work and what promotion paths can lead to more work ahead.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Finding A VO Agent

Working each day for three weeks, learn to quickly and easily respond to auditions by submitting a well-recorded MP3 that meets industry requirements.

This class will bring out the Betty Rubble and Maximus Prime in you. One of the most difficult categories of VO to crack, learn world-class techniques for voicing video games, animation and anime production online and broadcast on TV and cable.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Mastering Voice123 - Part 1

In this first of two classes on the most common category of work, commercial copy occupies a special place in the rainbow of work you will encounter in your voice over career. Especially here in the US, where broadcast television and radio is almost entirely advertiser supported, honing your performance skills in commercial copy is paramount.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Voicing Commercial VO - Part 2

In this second of two classes on the most common category of work, commercial copy occupies a special place in the rainbow of work you will encounter in your voice over career. Especially here in the US, where broadcast television and radio is almost entirely advertiser supported, honing your performance skills in commercial copy is paramount.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Mastering The Art Of Self Direction

The changing landscape of voiceover work has been affected deeply by the advent of the Internet. This class illustrates and explains that, not only has the Net changed how we market ourselves and acquire auditions and work, it has also spawned new types of voiceover product with performance requirements unique to the digital world.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Voicing Specialty Narration VO

Elegantly handling documentary narration is part and parcel of the professional VO artist’s set of tools. From work on channels like Nat GEO, The History Channel and Style, to the networks like the BBC and FOX, to movie theater releases that cover the gamut from nature to historical biography, this category of voice work is rewarding, challenging, and ultimately, profitable.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Voicing Animation And Video Games

From how the audiobook industry works, to the skills necessary to audition for and perform paid audiobook voiceover work, this class gives the student an unvarnished look at the strategies and tactics it takes to succeed in voicing fiction audiobooks, as well as practical work voicing samples of fiction audiobooks.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Recording For ACX With Audacity - Part 1

There are over 10 billion phones in the world – one and one-half for every man, woman and child on the planet. 70% are business phones, and all phones have some sort of voice mail or outbound messaging associated with them. Learn how, in the most profitable category of voicework in many portfolios, and the most plentiful of work categories, you’ll find a largely hidden market of work.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Managing VO Clients And Projects

Like commercials, narration and IVR, the category of news and information products have a certain style and performance technique unique to the category. Traditional radio and television outlets have been joined by podcasts, satellite, cable, email blasts and other new connections, giving you an even greater opportunity to audition and land these lucrative jobs.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Voicing IVR And Phone Prompts

Fiction audiobooks may rule the available shelf space on Audible, Amazon and iTunes, but it’s far from the only category in which VO talent can thrive. From do-it-yourself books, self-help guides, and manuals to textbooks, history tomes and more, this category is filled with opportunity for the digital VO performer, as well as the traditional voiceover talent.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Mastering Cold Reading Of VO Scripts

Separate and apart from traditional documentary narration, there are several major categories of content-specific narration work that centers around large bodies of information: scientific, technical, legal, medical and so on. If your personal knowledge extends to any of these spaces, you’ll find yourself with yet another way to make a living as a VO performer.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Mastering VO Marketing

In a world…where one VO talent…will survive and thrive. Movie trailers, TV promos, sizzle reels, web previews and other spotlight products can be found promoting every category of performance. And it’s not just the exclusive bastion of deep-voiced men any longer. Get both theoretical and practical work in the world of trailers and promos.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Voicing Training And Industrial VO

The business to business and training market is calling you. Training videos, website how-to’s, software installation, management and industrial process training are but a few of the products in this category, and the marketplace for these types of VO work span both union, non-union, domestic and international boundaries.

NEXT SUGGESTED COURSE: Mastering VO Social Networking