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...
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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...
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...
My Guest Spot on vobs.tv with the Jimmy Kimmels of VO: Dan & George I had a particularly stellar Monday last week as the guest on the LA vlog show, Voice Over Body Shop on Mar 27th, hosted by Dan Lenard and George Whittam. We jawed on about a lot of things voice over talent chat about. How did I get started? My early days wove back and forth between theatre/film and radio/ TV. How I became one of the top ten female voiceover artists in Canada. Hard work, marketing, great relationships...
When I was contracted to do an eLearning voice over for an off-the-shelf Online course by content development company Taimma Communications (now known as Ebix), I didn’t quite get all the hullabaloo. Off the shelf—that’s like off-the-rack, right? Yes! It was right at the point when eLearning content developers began tinkering around with the idea of going from being custom tailors to direct wholesalers. As former owners of the company, Soula Chronopoulos and Thierry Semoff rode the crest o...
