Blog - Voice Artist

To many, it’s a little known fact that some of the gaming world’s best-known voice artists are shared across some of the biggest game releases each year. Here at Matinée Multilingual, we love working on video games so we put together this infographic which looks at The Shared Voices of Video Game Characters.

One talking point that never seems to be far away from the voice over industry is the role of technology. The emergence of Siri and other automatic voice tools come with that inevitable question – will the machines ever take over?

Whether you’re just starting out as a voice artist or have worked in the industry for years, it’s human nature to make mistakes from time to time and, on occasion, we simply need to take a step back and remember the basics.

When it comes to putting together your demo show reel as a voice artist, it’s sometimes difficult to know exactly what you can do to make it stand out from the crowd. So how do you ensure that you’re the one who producers and decision makers are drawn to?

As a freelance voice artist, one of the hardest roles of the job can be finding the work and being selected as the chosen voice for a particular role. We wanted to share our own top tips on how to win work as a freelance voice artist.

During the communist regime in Romania in the 1980’s, many pirated films were dubbed with Romanian audio over the top, but for a long time there was one mysterious trait to these films: every character was dubbed with a woman’s voice – the same woman. To many, she was known only as ‘the voice.’

With today being the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day we thought it was a great opportunity to look at the traditions of the day and showcase some of our Irish voice-over artists.

In this article we’re going to look at the profile of voice-over artist and actor, Erich. Erich is of German-Russian descent, growing up in Germany and subsequently moving to London to work on his career. Erich is often involved in German voice-over projects and feature films.