Voice & Narration
Recorded and edited voice work for videos, courses, audiobooks and phone systems, with casting, direction and editing handled end to end.
- Price
- From $95.00 per finished minute
- Free trial
- One episode up to 30 minutes, edited and mastered, no card, no commitment.
Part of Audio Editing & Production. How the work runs and what it costs across the family are set out in the audio editing & production guide.
What Voice & Narration covers
6 services under this heading. Each is priced for the work it actually involves rather than averaged into one rate.
Voice-Over Recording
Professional voice talent recorded in a treated booth to your script, with a director on the session so you get the read...
Priced per project
Voice-Over Editing
Editing recorded voiceover into a clean final track: choosing the best takes, removing breaths and mistakes, and matchin...
Priced per project
Audiobook Production
Recording, editing and mastering a full audiobook to the technical requirements of platforms such as ACX, including cons...
Priced per project
E-Learning Narration
Clear, well-paced narration for training courses and explainers, recorded so modules sound consistent even when they are...
Priced per project
IVR & Phone Systems
Recorded prompts for phone menus, hold messages and voicemail, written to be understood on a phone line and delivered in...
Priced per project
Multilingual Voice Localization
Voiceovers recorded in other languages by native speakers, timed to match the original picture and checked by a second n...
Priced per project
Before and after
Drag the handle. Every pair is our own work.
Narration recorded in four sessions over a month
Matched across sessions, leveled, and mastered to one target
Illustration, not a client job
Voice & Narration E-learning 5 business days
Rates and common questions for this work are on the Audio Editing & Production page.
How we approach this work
Articles from the journal, written by the people who do this work. More on this subject →
Voice-Over Recording: What Actually Works
Six common voice-over recording myths, debunked: why the room beats the microphone, how much headroom to leave, working distance, takes and room tone.
Audio Editing & ProductionPodcast Editing: The Decisions That Matter
Learn the podcast editing decisions that matter: recording on separate tracks, the edit-repair-level order, gentle cleanup, and -16 LUFS delivery targets.
Audio Editing & ProductionLoudness Normalization, Done Properly
A phase-by-phase playbook for loudness normalization: pick the right LUFS target, fix the mix, control true peak, and verify every deliverable before upload.
Voice & Narration vs the alternatives
Side-by-side on price, turnaround and what you actually get back. Written for the decision rather than for us.
Audio Post for Video vs Voice & Narration
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — audio post for video compared with voice & narration.
Audio Restoration & Repair vs Voice & Narration
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — audio restoration & repair compared with voice & narration.
Hire Audio Engineers vs Voice & Narration
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — hire audio engineers compared with voice & narration.
Music & Sound Branding vs Voice & Narration
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — music & sound branding compared with voice & narration.
Podcast Production vs Voice & Narration
Which you need, what each costs, and when a project wants both — podcast production compared with voice & narration.
Audio Editing & Production by industry
What the work involves in your sector, what it costs there, and the US rules that apply to it.
- Education and E-learning
- Events and Venues
- Financial Services and Fintech
- Fitness and Wellness
- Government and Public Sector
- Healthcare Practices
- Insurance
- Law Firms
- Manufacturing and Industrial
- Media and Publishing
- Music and Entertainment
- Nonprofits
- SaaS and Software
- Sports and Outdoor
- Staffing and Recruiting
- Travel and Tourism
Often combined with Voice & Narration
The work that usually sits either side of this one. One team handles all of it, under one brief.
Audio Editing
Cleaning, mixing and preparing audio for video, so dialogue is clear and levels are consistent.
Priced per project
Video Background Editing
Green screen, rotoscope and masking — frame by frame where it matters.
From $1.50 per frame
Content Production
Researched, cited, and written by a named person.
From $0.45 per word
AI Content Editing & Fact-Checking
A human editor reads AI-drafted copy line by line, checks every claim against a source, and fixes the confident errors t...
Priced per project
Audio Transcription & Labeling
Accurate transcripts and labels for speech and sound recordings, including speaker turns, timestamps and noise tags, pre...
Priced per project
Content Planning
Decide what to publish before deciding when.
From $2,400.00 per engagement
Related services
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