If You're Considering Making Money As A Voiceover Professional, READ THIS!! Then contact me for a consultation in-person, by phone, email, fax. I own and am a professional audio engineer/audio producer in my DALLAS  recording studio. I have trained hundreds of voiceover talents and broadcasters now working nationally and internationally in my workshops, in college classes, and in private consultations. Teleconferencing is now available if you do not live in or can travel to the Dallas area to work with me. Or, if you prefer, ask me about travelling to your location to produce your CD demo in a recording studio where you are.

The first thing all students should ask is: What are my teachers' credentials? What have they voiced? How long have they been in the voiceover business? Do they have radio or TV experience? Are they a credentialed, degreed educator or only an "out of work actor teaching for extra money?

Is doing voiceovers their primary occupation now or are they primarily an on-camera actor or stage actor whose experience in voiceovers is limited? With whom have they trained as voiceover talents or actors/speech coaches? Do they practice effective educational techniques in the classroom or private session setting (teaching is a very special skill. Some actors are NOT effective teachers because they have not studied educational methods and have little experience as teachers).

What awards have they won? Are they talents (voice actors) or also audio producers/writers? Are the instructors active in all areas of the current voiceover profession--radio/tv commercials, telephone messaging, video and film narration, cartoons or video games, toys, more (in other words, are they up-to-date)?

Today's voiceover profession is multi-faceted. Statistics gathered by the two major unions in our field, AFTRA and SAG, find that voicing commercials is the LEAST of what voiceover talents do! Most jobs today are in the narration field, particularly the educational, medical, military, and corporate narration fields. Audio book narration is growing exponentially. Working in the fields of videogames and cartoons for adults and children is also a huge field. Telephone messaging is a wonderful way to earn money with your voice. And it's done everywhere, small towns to major centers.

Next, ask the instructor about the actual content of a workshop or seminar. Does the seminar feature hands-on performance and vital information about starting or perpetuating a viable career in the business, making money in it, working for yourself from an in-home recording studio, working with broadcasting agents in multiple cities?