Voice-over casting calls you can record from home.
Browse live opportunities, submit free, and learn how to deliver a clean professional audition—even if your first recording space is a bedroom closet.
We only publish notices we can stand behind, so rather than pad this page with listings that are not real, here is the full board — and everything below is the part of voice-over work that does not change week to week.
Is your bedroom quiet enough for voice-over?
You do not have to guess. Four measurable audio standards can tell you whether your recording is clean enough — and free software can check them in minutes.
Four numbers that decide it
These are the specs an audiobook must hit to be accepted. They are also the closest thing voice-over has to a pass mark.
That converts a vague fear into a fifteen-minute task with a yes-or-no result. If you fail on noise floor, the fix is blankets, soft furnishing and time of day — not a new interface.
The cheapest fully compliant software stack is $0. Audacity is free, the ACX Check plugin is free, and between them they will get a clean read to spec.
When you are ready to read something out loud against it, our practice scripts are free, and the teleprompter will scroll them at whatever pace the copy wants.
A strong voice can still lose because of a wrong file
Many professional-sounding auditions are rejected because the actor forgot the slate, used the wrong filename, or sent the wrong audio format. Reading the brief carefully gives you an immediate advantage.
So the rule is simple, and it is not about your voice
Whatever the brief says. There is no universal peak number, no universal bitrate, no universal filename. There is only the spec on the job you are submitting to — and reading it carefully puts you ahead of a quarter of the field before you open your mouth.
On slating: slate when a human will receive the file directly. Don't when a platform is delivering it and has already attached your name.
How many takes? One to two is the working consensus for most reads — send your best and one genuinely different alternative, not two versions of the same choice. Character and animation work is the exception, where a wider range is expected.
Turnaround. Short-form work typically runs 24 to 48 hours, and rush premiums of 25–100% are normal when it is faster. Nobody publishes a reliable figure for how long audition windows stay open, so treat every posting as closing sooner than you think.
You no longer need to live in Los Angeles
For most of the history of this business that was simply untrue. The turn is recent, it is real, and unlike most industry folklore it is dateable.
"No one will hire you if you live in New Jersey or Texas, no matter how talented you are."
"…it's more accessible to more people because everybody's working from home."
The corroboration is better than the quote: a senior producer at a major anime studio — and the English voice of one of its best-known characters — records in a bedroom closet.
And the trade body has put a number on it. Testifying to a federal agency, the president of the National Association of Voice Actors said that over 60% of voice actors are located outside Los Angeles and New York. That is not a hopeful claim from a blog. It is the industry describing itself, on the record.
But keep the nuance, because a new barrier replaced the old one
Geography stopped mattering and engineering competence started to. In Blum's words, "we have to become engineers." That is why the spec block above is the first section on this page and the microphone question is further down.
The platform fee moved onto the talent in 2020
Every guide that still says the client pays it is six years out of date — and the primary source is the company itself, on its own blog: "we've decided to charge talent (and not clients) the Platform Fee."
Practically: quote $100 on that platform, and you earn $80. Price accordingly.
And a piece of audiobook arithmetic nobody prints
"$200 per finished hour" is not $200 an hour. By the platform's own account it takes about four hours of work to produce one hour of finished audio — so a $200 PFH job where you also do the post is closer to $50 an hour of actual labour. Our audiobook chapter works the rest of that maths through.
Never pay someone to audition for a job
Casting may ask you to record a sample, but legitimate employers do not charge you to be considered. Be especially careful with unexpected texts, overpayment cheques, and promises involving famous productions.
"Paying to get a job is always a sign of a scam."
Federal Trade Commission, consumer alert, December 2025The patterns specific to voice-over
Search the client's name alongside the words scam, review and complaint before you record anything. It takes a minute.
How has AI changed entry-level voice work?
"AI didn't take the top of this industry. It took the ladder."
Our own voice-acting chapterWhich is the sharpest formulation of it we have found anywhere, including in the trade press. The high-value character and campaign work is largely intact. The entry-level e-learning, IVR and short-form narration that used to let a beginner build credits is the part that got automated — and our chapter draws the honest conclusion: there is no longer a bottom rung to stand on, so you have to be good enough to skip it.
On the video game strike: it is over. Struck July 2024, tentative agreement June 2025, ratified July 2025 by 95% to 5%. Any page describing it as ongoing is out of date.
Six facts in this section changed within the last fourteen months and one contract expired recently. Everything here carries the date above; if you are reading it much later, check the Academy chapter, which is updated more often than this page.
Learn every part of voice acting
Finding an audition is only one step. The fourteen chapters below cover recording spaces, microphones, demos, rates, unions, coaching, and every kind of voice-over work.
"Work reaches a voice actor through three doors."
A pay-to-play platform, an agent, or a client who hires you directly"The session fee is the tip. The residual is the meal."
On how voice work is actually priced"The demo is not the first thing you make. It is the last."
On why beginners buy demos too earlyCommon questions
Do I need to pay to audition?
Never for a role on this board. Some subscription platforms charge talent a membership fee to access listings, which is a different arrangement — but no legitimate casting charges you per audition, and a "client" asking for money is a scam.
Can I do voice-over with a regional accent?
Yes, and the market moved sharply toward authentic casting after 2020. What used to be a limitation is increasingly a category. The honest caveat is that general-American commercial reads remain the largest single pool of work.
Do I need a professionally produced demo to start?
Not to start submitting here. The professionals genuinely disagree about DIY versus produced demos — and verified prices for a produced commercial demo start around $800 and run to $2,500. Do not buy one before you can pass the spec test above.
How often do new voice roles get posted?
Nobody publishes a reliable rate, and we are not going to invent one. What is worth knowing is the competition ratio: one $150 job on a major platform drew 183 submissions. Volume matters more than perfection.
Read the copy without losing your place.
Our teleprompter is free, runs in the browser, and scrolls at whatever pace your read wants — the one piece of self-tape kit that transfers cleanly to a voice booth. You can browse the casting board without signing up.
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