Rates for voiceover இழை இடுபவர்: Martin Hesse
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Hi,
can anyone tell me the current rates for voiceover assignments?
Thank you in advance!
Martin
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| No, of course not. | Mar 25, 2010 |
How long is the piece of string you are providing the voiceover for?
MediaMatrix
| | | | Martin Hesse 
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தலைப்பை ஆரம்பித்தல்
Several pieces ranging in length from 2 sec to 18 seconds, all in all about 20 min. They are used for a commercial video.
What I meant is: Are there any standard rates for voiceover, like per second, per minute, per hour of work and what would be the individual rates for them?
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| rates I've done it for | Mar 25, 2010 |
Hello!
I can tell you that I've been offered 20 USD/hour for voice over services, by an indian company. Even though the text seemed long enough, I didn't make it to a whole hour of recording at the time, but given the amount of time I spent on recording, then playing it and eventually re-record, which well exceeded one hour - I requested to be payed a whole hour.
From what I've gathered while browsing the specific professional sites, voice over services in the States can go... See more Hello!
I can tell you that I've been offered 20 USD/hour for voice over services, by an indian company. Even though the text seemed long enough, I didn't make it to a whole hour of recording at the time, but given the amount of time I spent on recording, then playing it and eventually re-record, which well exceeded one hour - I requested to be payed a whole hour.
From what I've gathered while browsing the specific professional sites, voice over services in the States can go up to 100 UDS per hour and more. It varies greatly based on how good of a "talent" you are at it, and also how experienced
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Martin Hesse
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தலைப்பை ஆரம்பித்தல் | by time spent or be time recorded | Mar 25, 2010 |
The client is offering me to pay me by the time recorded. I'm still trying to figure out whether this is a good idea, because any segment of the recording that does not fit into the allocated timeframe has to be re-recorded and sometimes, it is virtually impossible to record a long German compound term in a segment of 1,5 sec. So I wonder whether it is better to go for the payment by the hour spent on the task and not by the time of final recording.
| | | | Diana I.
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This was my dilemma exactly!
My suggestion is to try to argue your point with the provider, like I did; it might work!
Good luck to you!
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| Voiceover Rates | Mar 28, 2010 |
Hello:
I recently posted the following on another thread. Please do not let rates set in India give you a false idea of what standard voiceover rates are. They do not reflect the industry. $100 per hour does not reflect an accurate rate for anything other than certain audiobook narration that does not require any editing on the part of the talent. Even that is low. $20 clients will always manage to find $20 talent but by no means would I consider them professional. Standar... See more Hello:
I recently posted the following on another thread. Please do not let rates set in India give you a false idea of what standard voiceover rates are. They do not reflect the industry. $100 per hour does not reflect an accurate rate for anything other than certain audiobook narration that does not require any editing on the part of the talent. Even that is low. $20 clients will always manage to find $20 talent but by no means would I consider them professional. Standard rates in the US are below. They're roughly the same in the UK for the most part.
As for how long it can take to do a job - as a rough calculation it will usually take anywhere from 2 to 3 times the length of the finished material to record. Then it will take another 3 -4 times the length of the material to edit it. If you have a lot of files you have to time and individually name, that will take time also. Oh, and translation of the source material is not included in voiceover rates. That's separate. For an experienced VO talent it could take up to 6 hours to record and edit one hour of audio. The following is what I posted elsewhere on rates.
In the US it depends on what the voiceover is for. For most narration (not including audiobooks) union work would be between roughly US$400 and $600 for the first hour (most of that goes to the narrator - some goes to benefits - health insurance etc. ) and then about half that for each subsequent hour. Non-union voice actor rates are all over the place but - again - depending on the material would run anywhere from $200 (quite low) to $500 or more per hour - each hour. If you are editing the material you're narrating you charge for that also along with studio time. Some people charge by the page for fully edited, clean audio files. A common page rate including editing and studio time is $150 - $200 per Arial12 font double-spaced page, standard margins (approximately 250 words). For very complex narration rates could go higher and some would do simple narrations for a bit less.
Also, it's standard to charge a minimum session fee. Most people charge a one hour minimum - or the equivalent in pages. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Kroz Wado
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These rates are crazy low... An agency I've worked at has paid $20 a minute of finished recording.
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| $20 per minute is also too low | Apr 12, 2010 |
I just wanted to clarify the rates I posted are for an hour's recording session only. Not a finished hour and they DON'T include editing. An hour of finished audio will usually take about 6 hours to record and edit. That comes to about $3000 more or less per finished hour - or about $50 per finished minute. That's assuming the work is long form. For shorter narrations - a narration of say 5 minutes - that would fall under your minimum session fee of an hour's work - which would put it at ... See more I just wanted to clarify the rates I posted are for an hour's recording session only. Not a finished hour and they DON'T include editing. An hour of finished audio will usually take about 6 hours to record and edit. That comes to about $3000 more or less per finished hour - or about $50 per finished minute. That's assuming the work is long form. For shorter narrations - a narration of say 5 minutes - that would fall under your minimum session fee of an hour's work - which would put it at roughly $100 per minute.
I'm sure professional translators are plagued by the same problems professional voiceover actors/narrators are - hoards of amateurs piling into the business without a clue as to all that's involved in doing a professional job and without an understanding of the actual business - driving rates down to ridiculous levels. And there will always be those who don't care about quality at all - only price. There are many clients though who really have no idea of what the rates are for a professional job and of all that's involved in doing a professional job. Sometimes they just need to be educated. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Rate per finished minute of audio VS Extra fees | Dec 9, 2011 |
Hi Narrator,
Could you comment on a Thai voice-over job offer I get from a US client.
Hence, could you please provide me the below info so that I can carry out the further procedures.
Maximum Rate per finished minute of audio (recorded and edited) that we can offer is $16 and I believe you are fine with that;
Hence, please let me know your
Optional: hourly rate: US$_____
Other fees: $US______
References (at least ... See more Hi Narrator,
Could you comment on a Thai voice-over job offer I get from a US client.
Hence, could you please provide me the below info so that I can carry out the further procedures.
Maximum Rate per finished minute of audio (recorded and edited) that we can offer is $16 and I believe you are fine with that;
Hence, please let me know your
Optional: hourly rate: US$_____
Other fees: $US______
References (at least three, with email addresses):
1. ___________
2. ___________
3. ___________
4. ___________
My question are:
1) What cost is included in the rate per finished minute?
2) Is this fair ?
Maximum Rate per finished minute of audio (recorded and edited) that we can offer is $16 and I believe you are fine with that
3) Apart from the costs in 1, what should be charge on top of that? (Other fees: $US______......the cost of voice-over artist, voice producer and studio rent and etc?)
4) How is hourly rate calculated (based on what?)
5) What is the minimum fee (at least on hour? what cost should be included? What if a client needs only 8 minutes of recording?)
6) Below are the job requirements. What do you think the rate per finished minute and the costs on top of that should be?:
Voice Talent Service Description
The Voice Talent will work with XXXXX Project Managers to produce short voice over recordings to be used in internet-based multilingual video and animation projects.
Currently seeking especially these dialects: Arabic- male and female voices; Chinese (Cantonese)- M,F; French (Canada)- F only; Korean- M,F; Portuguese (Brazil)- M,F; Russian- M,F; Spanish (Latin American)- M,F; Spanish (Spain)- M only; Vietnamese- M,F; US English- M,F.
Requirements:
At least 3 years of recording experience
Native level fluency of target language
Home studio with the capability to produce quality recordings in the following formats:
WAV - CD quality (44KHz, 16-bit). The following codecs are supported: PCM, Microsoft
ADPCM, GSM 6.10, IMA ADPCM, CCITT A-Law/G.711 CCITT u-Law
MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (can’t use bitrates above 160 kbps)
Workflow:
1. The Voice Talent will receive a notification of an upcoming project from XXXX and
confirms availability.
2. The Voice Talent will receive the translated voice over script and original video as a reference along with general guidelines regarding the preferred tone etc. File format specs for the specific project will also be provided.
3. Once the recording is done, the Voice Talent will upload the file(s) to a specified location.
4. The files will go through a viaLanguage quality check (background check, script alignment and adherence, file naming etc.). If any corrections are needed, the Voice Talent would quickly provide an updated recording.
Deliverable Specification:
The deliverables will meet the following standards:
Recorded audio will be in one of the following formats and split into separate files as specified in project
voice script:
MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (no bitrates above 160 kbps)
WAV - CD quality (44KHz, 16-bit). The following codecs are supported: PCM, Microsoft ADPCM, GSM 6.10, IMA ADPCM, CCITT A-Law/G.711 CCITT u-Law VOCAL DELIVERY
Performance criteria:
Articulation and speech clarity appropriate to the copy
sounds of words are present and clearly communicated
no unnatural or distracting over-enunciation
end of words neither dropped nor punched
Vocal dynamics
good use of the four voice variables (pitch, rate, volume and quality) in varying degrees to add interest to speech without creating discernible or distracting speech patterns
Dramatic interpretation
hitting the copy points
effectively communicating key concepts of the copy
exhibiting energy appropriate to the copy
evoking emotion and mood appropriate to the copy
Technique:
Good breath support
Absence of vocal tension
Absence of mouth noise
Delivery within natural vocal range (not straining to be higher or lower than the voice talent’s natural register)
Controlled sibilance
Controlled plosives
Consonants not over-aspirated
Consistent distance between mouth and mic
Natural flow without awkward breaks
TECHNICAL DELIVERY
Quality:
Audio level: finished work ideally delivered at or under -6dBFS
Absence of ambient noise
Minimal room decay (reverberation, echo or ring)
Technique:
No distortion from poor mic placement or other reason
No apparent over-processing
No indication of overdriving the mic
No digital clipping
No obvious pickups
No indication of poor or absent pop filtering
Thank you.
Worapot
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| | | | | Access to studio required for voice-over artists? | Jan 16, 2019 |
Are voice-over artists usually required to have access to a recording studio? What is the minimum equipment needed for the job? What would be the rate, if I have no experience but all other characteristics required (nice accent, pacing, articulation)? Thanks.
Narrator wrote:
Hello:
I recently posted the following on another thread. Please do not let rates set in India give you a false idea of what standard voiceover rates are. They do not reflect the industry. $100 per hour does not reflect an accurate rate for anything other than certain audiobook narration that does not require any editing on the part of the talent. Even that is low. $20 clients will always manage to find $20 talent but by no means would I consider them professional. Standard rates in the US are below. They're roughly the same in the UK for the most part.
As for how long it can take to do a job - as a rough calculation it will usually take anywhere from 2 to 3 times the length of the finished material to record. Then it will take another 3 -4 times the length of the material to edit it. If you have a lot of files you have to time and individually name, that will take time also. Oh, and translation of the source material is not included in voiceover rates. That's separate. For an experienced VO talent it could take up to 6 hours to record and edit one hour of audio. The following is what I posted elsewhere on rates.
In the US it depends on what the voiceover is for. For most narration (not including audiobooks) union work would be between roughly US$400 and $600 for the first hour (most of that goes to the narrator - some goes to benefits - health insurance etc. ) and then about half that for each subsequent hour. Non-union voice actor rates are all over the place but - again - depending on the material would run anywhere from $200 (quite low) to $500 or more per hour - each hour. If you are editing the material you're narrating you charge for that also along with studio time. Some people charge by the page for fully edited, clean audio files. A common page rate including editing and studio time is $150 - $200 per Arial12 font double-spaced page, standard margins (approximately 250 words). For very complex narration rates could go higher and some would do simple narrations for a bit less.
Also, it's standard to charge a minimum session fee. Most people charge a one hour minimum - or the equivalent in pages.
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