Voice over for e-learning

28.07.2021

What should you pay attention to when ordering a voice-over for e-learning? Click and read the article.

Hiring a voice talent for e-learning training may make its form more attractive and make it more accessible.

How much does the recording cost, how to order a voice-over recording, and how to prepare a text for a voice talent? You will learn everything from this text.

Hiring one voice talent or recording with multiple voices?

The way the e-learning course is narrated by the voice talent depends on the nature of the training and the script itself. First of all, one should answer the question: do dialogues appear in e-learning? If so, it is worth considering hiring a few voice-over artists who will be divided into roles and will play the relevant parts of the texts.

A good voice over roster should propose teachers appropriate to the age and gender of the character so that the recording will sound credible. Ordering a few voice overs in one voice bank also removes the burden of production from us. All voice-over recordings will be produced in one place, thanks to which we will save time looking for voices, determining details and prices, and settling the project.

How to prepare an e-learning script for a voice-over recording?

The text for a voiceover recording should be primarily legible. To reduce the risk of errors and speed up the recording process, provide the teacher with a text that will be:

formatted nicely,
with accepted changes,
no passages that are not readable,
in PDF or DOC format.

If there are any comments for the voice talent in the text, it is best if they should be in a separate column or in the form of comments.

Pronunciation is very important in voice-over recordings for training. Often, voice talents struggle with professional nomenclature, the correct pronunciation of which is known only to people working within a given industry or company.

If in the text to be recorded there are foreign words, company names, or abbreviations – it is worth writing this pronunciation in a phonetic way or recording it on a mobile phone.

Such a “pronunciation guide” will greatly facilitate the work of the voice talent and make the prepared voice-over recording ready for use.

Foreign voice over talent for e-learning course

Sometimes there is a need to create the same training in several language variants. So how do you prepare for a voiceover recording with foreign voices?

In this case, you should start with a good translation before recording. The translated text can be sometimes ordered at the voice-over company.

How much does such a recording cost? The exact price is always provided by the voice-over company after receiving the translation into the language selected for recording, but based on the original text, you can think about an approximate quote.

Pickups and new VO recordings

E-learning trainings are characterized by the fact that their content can change. This is often due to changes in regulations (e.g. in OHS training and GDPR), or changes within the company (e.g. implementation training).

Sometimes it requires adding new fragments of the voice-over’s part even a year or two after the publication of the training.

Before hiring a voice talent, it is worth asking in the voice base whether all recordings are archived by them and what are the names of the voices we have selected for the project. Thanks to this, in the event of corrections, we will be able to efficiently organize a new recording and attach it to the rest of the voice-over recordings.

How to order a voice over for e-learning course?

If we want to know the price for recording training and order its implementation, it is best to contact a proven voice over roster. Such a voice-over recording studio will prepare a recording quote and propose voices appropriate to the format or characters from the training.