Voice Over Is Alive and Well in Europe

Bettye Zoller recently returned from a three week sojourn over the Christmas holidays from a European tour and learned a fair deal about what is going on in voice over in countries such as Austria and Germany.

While out to lunch with a friend in Nurnberg, Zoller discovered that more and more actors and singers are making money in the voice-over field all over Europe nowadays, in cities of all sizes from large to small, and that many also work from home, similar to their counterparts overseas.

Voice-overs are particularly attractive to starving artists as extra income – filmmakers, actors, models, and of course, musicians.

Duly was that many Europeans have the advantage of speaking three or more languages fluently, since most European schools teach languages to children in the early grades, not waiting, as do American schools, until the pre-teen or teen years.

Multiple languages are spoken by many European parents.This means that European voice talents easily voice jobs in many languages.

What Europe lacks, her friend confided, is U.S. English – people who speak American English without a European accent.

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Source: Bettye Zoller via VoiceOverXtra