Advertising Voice Over Services

This is primarily dependent on the availability of the selected voice artist. We also have a professional recording studio, so we can schedule projects at short notice.

As commercial voice over scripts tend to be on the shorter end, we can turn around regular and urgent projects in just 24 hours.

Many! Here are just a few examples of the types of advertising voice over projects we specialise in:

• TV commercials
• Radio ads
• Digital promotions
• Social media advertisements (organic or paid)
• Podcast sponsorships
• YouTube bumpers

Many advertisers continue to prefer human voice overs for commercials, as they can convey emotion and personality that may be lacking in AI-generated voices. However, for some audiences and projects, an AI voice over can be an effective choice.

Choosing the right voice artist for your advertising project means looking at their vocal qualities, range, experience with the language or accent, and their ability to convey the right emotion and tone.

Listening to demos and checking client reviews can also help you make the best choice.

Working with a professional voice over agency like our team at Matinée Multilingual can simplify this process. Our experienced talent coordinator and project managers know our voice actors well and can help match you with the perfect fit for your project.

Yes! At Matinée, we have a diverse pool of talents with varying accents and dialects from all regions in the UK.

You can specify your desired accent when booking a commercial voice over artist, or visit our Regional English Accents page to hear demos from our featured talents.

Our voice talent casting is free of charge. We want to help you find the perfect commercial voice over actor for your project, so we’ll work with you until we find the right fit.

When you pay for a voice over recording, you might also pay usage fees in addition to the standard recording fee. Whether you pay these fees and how much depends on how, where, and for how long you plan to use the voice recording.

Usage fees are paid to the voice artist if their voice is used to help make a profit. Also called buy-out fees, these are essentially a licensing agreement between you (the client) and the artist.

For example, if you use a voice recording exclusively within your company, such as for a staff training video, usage fees typically do not apply. However, when the recording is used publicly or for commercial gain, usage fees are usually required.

Other examples where usage fees will likely be applicable include: TV, radio, website, digital or cinema broadcast, museums, events, exhibition or in-stores.

Read our in-depth guide for more information on usage fees.

Factors such as budget, audience attention span, and the platform on which you will be sharing your commercial can all play a role in determining the length of your ad.

Often, TV adverts in the UK have a limited slot of 30 (or 60) seconds. Social media adverts benefit from being shorter, around 15–20 seconds, as viewers are likely to scroll past longer videos.

Yes. Whether our voice artist is based locally or in-country, a live-direction session enables you to act as the host and director of the recording session.

You will need to create a session meeting link (Zoom, MS Teams, etc), and we’ll pass this on to the voice artist. This means you can add as many parties as you require to be present within the session. Alternatively, we can provide a link via Source Nexus.

You will have complete creative control of the session and be able to converse with the voice artist and the audio engineer directly.

This reduces the need for re-recordings due to mispronunciation or other misunderstandings.

Hang tight and wait for our reply within the hour. Once we have confirmed your project brief, we will then curate a list of commercial voice over actors we think will be suitable for your ad.

From casting the right voice artist down to the delivery of files in the format of your choosing, you will have a dedicated account manager, project manager and audio engineer who will guide and assist till the project is completed and you are satisfied.