What Is a Voiceover?
A voiceover is a recorded voice that is heard over video, slides, animation or other content without the speaker being seen. The audience hears the narration while watching something else.
Common types of voiceover
- Narration: explaining what is on screen, as in documentaries, tutorials and courses.
- Commercial voiceover: the voice in adverts and promotional videos.
- Explainer and training: a consistent voice that guides a viewer through a process.
- Character voices: voices for animation and games.
- Phone and system prompts: greetings, menus and announcements.
Ways to make one
You can record your own voice, hire a voice actor, or generate the voice with text to speech. Recording gives the most personal result but needs a microphone, a quiet room and retakes for every edit. A generated voice lets you change the script and regenerate in minutes, and it can cover many languages.
What a good voiceover needs
A script written for the ear, a pace that matches the pictures, pauses where the viewer needs to look, a voice that suits the subject, and levels balanced with any music underneath. The words per minute of the narration is a useful number when timing a video.
Making a voiceover in GetMeAudio
Write the script, place pauses where the picture needs a beat, pick a voice, add background music that ducks under the voice, hear it, and download a finished MP3 or WAV. Drafts are free, and you pay only for the audio you download.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to record my own voice?
No. Text-to-speech tools generate the voice from a script.
How long should a voiceover script be?
That depends on the length of your video. A common rule of thumb is about 150 spoken words per minute in English. The script length calculator gives an estimate for other languages.
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