Unless you’ve come to voiceover from an online learning background, understanding how an eLearning project is put together is a mystery to most voice over narrators. I sat down with a good friend of mine who’s risen through the ranks in the industry and is now a department manager at an international e-learning content creation company, and asked him to help me to demystify the process. To better help we ‘talent’ see where we come in. Here is the result: Analyze and Brainstorm A project ...
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The eLearning Industry is expanding rapidly and needs good (read: great) voiceover actors to help make their training projects achieve end goals and win results. Here are three things you can do to stake your claim in this booming industry. Educate Yourself about the eLearning Industry By and large, the people who would hire voiceover talent in the e-Learning industry are a bright and bookish lot. That is to say, they are more comfortable with you going to play in their playground, rather...
In the voiceover world, your demo is your calling card. More important than your business card, or website, it’s a reflection of work you have done or are capable of doing. A demo becomes your audition to audition. It needs to be good. A poorly written, badly directed, over or under produced demo can kill opportunities and sabotage your efforts. I have multiple demos on my website. Commercial, eLearning, explainer, audiobook, trailer, accents and characters just to name a few, but if I...
An educational eLearning client recently asked me for referrals for sound studios builders. They’ve decided to build a place for their professors to record. This got me, the professional voice actor thinking… Both of my university aged daughters have complained about monotone, boring, bad narration in the online courses they have taken which were narrated by their profs. Why is this happening? Why would a prof risk everything they have worked so hard to achieve and turn it into ...
It takes a finessed approach to narrate to and essentially teach health care professionals. As a voice over actor with over twenty years of experience in medical eLearning-voice-over I’ve worked on projects targeted to the general public and medical professionals alike. Although I have no formal medical background, I have found the key is to sound like I do. Medical eLearning: An Adjusted Voiceover Delivery Medical eLearning generally informs learners about latest techniques and impo...
Just like this Porifera named Bob, children are like sponges. Sometimes we forget how quickly and how much they pick up and next thing we know, they’re repeating words we may not think they should incorporate into their vocabularies just yet. They absorb more information than we realize, and their education doesn’t stop when the school bell rings. And of course, they are extremely comfortable with electronic environments. This plus the fact that schools are overcrowded and underfunded...
eLearning is hot stuff! This $35B market is expected to reach $350B by 2025. (Nasdaq) Sizzle. Sizzle. What’s driving this growth? Digital technology, the speed of Internet and the ubiquity of wifi, mean learning no longer has to happen in a physical classroom with an instructor and (sometimes) somnolent lectures. Huge growth in the developing world and a shortage of teachers is a propelling global force. Stats reveal eLearning saves money, increases learning retention and the amo...
For eLearning voice over actors new to the increasing ‘virtual office’ and ‘home studio’ reality of this industry, just how technical our job has become may shock you at first. But if you want to make it in this industry, put on your techie hat. Not only will you have to invest in professional sound equipment and software, you also have to know how to use it for optimal performance. No need to panic though, you don’t have to have a degree in audio engineering, but you ...
Narration jobs for eLearning courses are a great source of income for voice over artists looking for steady work. This is no surprise considering that online or distance learning is becoming a mainstream and accepted form of education. People can receive entire degrees from the comfort of their home, and further careers in their field of study. Voice over actors can benefit from this growing trend in modern education, by bringing their talent to course curriculums. If you’re considering...
As an experienced voice over actor, I’ve lent my talent to thousands of narrations. A particular passion of mine lies in informing and educating students of all ages on a variety of subjects, so I am especially proud of my eLearning voice over work. eLearning is not simply about regurgitating information. It’s an integral part of the listener’s education, whatever it may be. And it continues to broaden its scope, and I’m happy to have not only represented so many facets of the industry f...
