Setting Up To Record Voice

Most businesses need to record voice elements. This includes, telephone menus, advertising, corporate branding, and even just simple customer service messages. It's important, however, for a business to spend some time thinking about how to implement those elements prior to actually recording voices in a studio.

Setting Up Prior to Recording a Voice Over

The first step prior to recording voice elements is determining exactly what is needed. Some of the elements of a business's potential voice over needs include:

• On hold service (the messages and music that play while customers wait for assistance)
• On-air advertising (for radio and television stations)
• Promos for upcoming products or in-store demonstrations
• Location information and business hours
• Job opportunities

The on hold service is likely the most complicated part of a voice recording project. An on hold service includes a lot of voice elements: each menu option, the greeting, on hold music (and advertising as listed above) and sound effects. The best way to prepare an on hold service is with an outline. Draw a diagram that illustrates each menu option in order to prevent leaving any out.

Once the groundwork is complete it's just a matter of finding and hiring the right voice over artist and studio to complete the job. New businesses or those with limited capital can easily get high quality sound recordings through an all-in-one studio. With all of the necessary equipment under one roof, the turnaround for such services is typically only a matter of hours instead of days or weeks.

Head to ProVoice USA once an outline is complete and the direction of the voice over copy has been decided.