If you create multimedia training, you might use voice actors to bring it to life. Whether you need someone to narrate a video or an elearning course—or even audio-only reinforcement training—the quality of the narration can mean the difference between engaging and distracting. But chances are good that, as a learning developer, you don’t have that much experience with those who make a living behind the microphone. So, finding and directing voice actors to get the best possible narration can be a daunting task. Because hiring and working with voice actors is so complicated, we'll look at each part in detail. First, here are some tips to keep in mind to find that perfect voice talent. 1. Star
If you’re an instructional designer who works a lot with scripts and storyboards, you know the importance of being an expert at composing knowledge-based sentences and paragraphs that learners can understand and retain. To you, writing and editing are as essential as instructing. If you’re primarily a instructional technologist—adding text, images, shapes and other objects to slides for completing someone else’s storyboards—it might not occur to you to use your own writing and editing skills. But these will come in handy every day. For example, you’ll eventually have to change any misspelled words or grammatical errors when the slides return to you for revision. But you can help identify the
