Explore Tones and Characteristics

A professional voice is a person that sells the use of their voice in content.  Professional voices are the people you hear on radio ads, TV commercials, or a bank's telephone systems.

They also include the voices you hear in cartoons or video games. To become a professional voice requires years of sustained practice to create a vocal persona that is distinct and desirable.

Customers who want to sell products or services, guide visitors or inform or entertain their audience are always willing to pay for professional voices to represent their interests.

What makes a good voice tone depends entirely on the context. A good voice tone for business is typically authoritative to build audience trust. For children's education, a nurturing tone works best to encourage and reassure.

An inspiring tone will electrify listeners for a product commercial, whereas a conversational tone will ease them. A good voice tone for an evil character is unlikely to be any of these.

An angry or unorthodox tone with a malevolent, vicious or sinister characteristic will make the audience feel anxious or afraid. 

The cost of hiring a professional voice will depend on the amount of studio time it takes to record the text (script) and where the audience will hear the voice (the broadcast medium).

Accomplished voices can earn significant sums for voicing characters in video games, animations or commercials. To obtain a quote, you will need to have the script and role description.

You will also need a brief outlining the product or service, viewership and the countries or regions that will broadcast the voice.  With this information, a voices agency like Voquent will provide an accurate cost.

First, consider what action you want the listener to take or the feelings you want to stir in the audience.

Then explore the character traits or tones on Voquent that are likely to arouse these feelings. For example, if you want your audience to feel anticipation, exploring voices with an enticing tone is an excellent place to start.

When you hear professional voices that work, favourite them and use the Get Quote button to tell us more about your project. An experienced producer will check availability with the voices and get back to you with rates.