Discover Affordable Voice Overs at Matinée

Typically, these fees sit between £275 – £500 per hour, but prices vary depending on experience level and type of project.

Half-day and full-day rates can considerably reduce costs for a longer project; these are usually negotiated on a project rate, and our team will work with you to get the best deal for your budget.

The range of prices is similar to that of our English-speaking voice artists at £275 – £500 per hour — but with some variation based on the language. All our foreign voice artists are native-speaking, ensuring authentic and accurate recordings.

You can usually double the standard rate for half a day (3 hours) and triple it for a full day (6 hours), but this does vary from one voice artist to another. We recommend getting in touch so we can provide you with an exact quote based on your selected language.

We charge £65 per hour for recordings in our fully equipped acoustic studios, and we can offer a very competitive quote for a full-day rate.

In a one-hour WILD recording session (not to picture), we can record up to 1500 words of voice over. When recording to picture, we can record up to 10 minutes in a one-hour session.

Usage fees (sometimes also known as buy-out fees) are additional fees that are payable to the voice artist for the continued use of their voice recording.

Usage fees will vary from project to project and depend on how the content is to be used, where it is to be heard, and how long it will be in circulation.

We can help you understand the costs associated with usage fees and suggest voice artists who will meet your budget requirements. You can also read our article on Voice Over Usage Fees Explained, which provides a detailed overview of the subject.

This is the time it takes to clean and edit the recordings by chopping them into separate sound files, and encoding to the format and resolution of your choice. This costs £65 per 10 minutes of audio.

The video below — created by one of our sound engineers — explains the work required to clean and edit a voice recording. This eliminates all unwanted noise at the beginning and end of each edited sound file.

Mixing the recorded voice tracks with existing music and effects tracks (M&E track) costs £65 per hour. This is popular for video narration, TV commercials, and video games that require multiple sound elements.

When a voice over has been recorded to picture, you may want the sound track re-laid to the original video so that the audio is perfectly aligned.

There is a small charge for this of £30 per video file, but this may depend on the length of the video.