How to Make Money With Your Voice Online — Teenage Hustles

How to make money with your voice online. One thing almost all of us have is a voice, and your voice can be used to make money. Now let’s be honest, not all of our voices sound perfect, but if yours sounds decent you could be in for a lot of future profits from your voice.

What is being a voice actor?

Being a voice-over actor is when you are the voice behind a video or audiobook or anything really there are many uses. This isn’t just a side hustle to some people. To some, it’s their full income.

What Do You Do As a Voice Actor

Voice-over acting requires you to record yourself reading the given script from the client and sending them the audio file of you doing that.

Expected Income From This Side Hustle

I personally recommend you start out on Fiverr as Fiverr is a good place to practice a hustle before you go to the big stages like acx.com which is where you can make $500+ per audio file you send.

What is Fiverr?

Fiverr is a website whose primary base is people selling services to other people which is great because you are a person providing voiceovers to other people but also many businesses use the site to purchase services too.

What is ACX?

ACX is owned and operated by Audible Inc ( Amazon), the site is split between people known as producers and authors. You as a voice-over artist are a producer. This is the site where you will find a big project which comes with big income potential and you have to apply to each audiobook in hope of being accepted.

Expected Time You Need

On average an audio file they want will take around double the time to produce due to reading time and then going back and editing you didn’t like but really it all depends whether your are a perfectionist or not. To make money with your voice online will take a lot of your time, but it can pay off.

Requirements :

Honestly, if you want to do small Fiverr gigs you can get away with an iPhone mic but for ACX, you will need a depend on 100$ mic but you can always work on Fiverr and save up for a good mic.

To start out many in the voice over space say you can just use your iPhone which is great because that is a low barrier to entry

Get Your Fiverr page started today and make sure to record some basic reading for your profile so people can get a sample of your voice before they buy it will help make people choose you over others. Every voice has a different selling point for example a higher voice would be good for children’s books and a more sleepy voice would be good for meditation videos.

Top Tips :

• If you have long scripts read them in wasted time such as transport if you take public transport to familiarise yourself before you start recording
• Start with small projects on Fiverr to help fund a mic and help you get used to voice over work and see if it’s for you
• Try to be as clear and confident as possible when voicing over the text and listen to the needs of the author or whoever has given you the job
• Don’t rush it make sure you give yourself time to go over it a few times if needed be especially at the beginning
• Once you get used to Fiverr get an audio editing software and edit old audio files and see if you can edit and tweak parts to make you sound better this will help for longer projects in the future
• Only do what you have time and/or are comfortable with. If you know you don’t have time or confidence for an 8-hour book don’t go for it go for a small gig somewhere else

Does voice-over acting have the potential to become a fully-fledged job?

The Answer is… 100% yes. Once you build up a portfolio you may have companies reach out requesting you for gigs and authors may want you on their future books and the more repeat customers you can get the more likely you can make it a full-time job.

My favorite part of this side hustle is everyone’s voice is valued in this space and everyone has a chance maybe some more than others but you just need to try to be as clear as possible.

Ps it can also be very lucrative ( make you lots of money )

Originally published at https://teenagehustles.com on March 14, 2022.