Awesome Voiceover

In this short film, a voiceover artist seeks approval from a picky client. But when he emerges from the recording booth, something strange is going on outside. Can he handle the real world? Filmmakers Dylan Bruno and Kasper Vejlø Kristensen cleverly use sound and off-screen action to build tension in their dark comedy short.

There’s a certain kind of fake sincerity and strained emotion that comes through in most commercial voiceovers, and voice actor Shelby Young totally nailed it in this TikTok duet she did for the Commercial Voiceover Challenge, posted by Noble Son. Also, who comes up with the awful names for prescription drugs?

UK tech company Sonantic has developed an AI-driven text-to-speech system that can generate digital voices with much greater expression than others. In this clip, you’ll hear “Faith” a completely artificial voice character act out a story with tremendous emotion. Look out voice actors, the robots are coming for you!

BBC Radio 1 host Greg James asked iconic nature show narrator Sir David Attenborough to provide a his authoritative and informative voice for an explanation of the opening bits of Adele’s music video for Hello.