Hire Professional Voice Over Artists

Why work with Matinée?

With over 40 years of industry experience, we’ve built a trusted reputation for delivering high-quality voice over services in over 80 languages. Our experienced production team, talented voice artists and hands-on human approach ensure outstanding quality and technical excellence in every creative project.

Our clients keep coming back to us because they know we speak their language, and trust us to deliver – every time.

Need help finding the voice for your next project? We take the stress out of the process and help you make the best choice for your project, ensuring your content resonates worldwide.

Your dedicated Project Manager handles everything

One of our Project Managers will work with you to guide you through each step of the project’s delivery. At the outset, they will review your source materials to ensure we have everything required to provide a well-planned solution. And if your project requires voice-over recordings, they will use their knowledge of our trustworthy voice actors to ensure you receive the best voice at a sensible price.

Throughout the duration of the project, they will schedule the studio time, monitor the production’s progress, and pay close attention to the project’s details, to ensure that your media project is delivered on time and within budget.

Additionally, they will ensure that you fully understand our process by walking you through each step. Our industry has a penchant for using a great deal of technical jargon, but your personal project manager will be there to clear up any confusion and ensure that you only pay for what you need.

What does it take to become a professional voice artist?

Education
To become a voice actor, you will have normally studied acting. You also need to be able to read well and capture the emotion of the text.

Flexibility
As a job voice acting is varied. You might be doing several voice parts in a day and from month to month or week to week you’ll never know what is going to come up.

Getting into character
A studio will often help a voice actor by providing photo’s and descriptions to help the actor learn about the character. This will inspire the actor to create a voice that matches the image.

You need a voice warm up
It’s important for voice actors to warm up their voices before they start working on a part. You can warm up your voice by singing, humming or by breathing in and then out with your mouth closed.

Voice actors often work with other people
Voice actors don’t always work alone. Sometimes they will be part of a team. This is more common if the actor is voicing a video in real time.

It’s a growing community
If you are an experienced voice actor, then you will mostly always be in work. It’s very difficult to get a part if you are unknown, but of course new actors do enter the voice acting field regularly, you just need that first job.

Reading is important
You must be able to read quickly and pronounce difficult words , so a good vocabulary is a must.

You don’t always need to talk
Some voice actors are employed to mimic other actors grunting and groaning. A good example of this is in Family Guy with the character ‘Tiny Tom Cruise’ who is played by a famous American voice actor called Sean Kenin.

Remote work
This means that an actor can do the job from home or another suitable location instead of going to a studio. It does mean though that actors will get last minute requests to do voice acting with little time to prepare. The actors are emailed a script and expected to work the same day.

Voice actors use props
If a scene calls for the person to eat or drink, some voice actors prefer to actually eat or drink something rather than make a noise so it sounds more authentic. If a voice calls for a person to talk from deep inside a cave, the actor might use a bucket over his head to get the right sound.