[Claudia Rousseaux]

Thank you for your response Ned, I didn’t mean to offend anyone;
You are 100% right, the business works that way today, so we do! My rate sheet is not a bible, it’s a guide, and in my country (France) like in others, we have to deal with tremendous changes, and we adapt each other to these changes. I don’t belong to the SAG realm for voicing but I do for radio Hosting; I better not belong to any Union or guild, free to make my rates and adapt them to my clients budget if needed; As you said, Take it or leave it !
About voice123, even French TV announcers are sourcing voices from them: the result can be heard watching TV: Huggly ! They may be save money, for what result…
Is Tiffany at the same level of Macy’s? Don’t think so… Sorrrrrryyyy

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[Claudia Rousseaux]

Did I offend someone? I am not at all pretending that I know each single one way of work, not trying giving any lesson or any master class… I was just sharing what talents can experience, and I am glad to read different points of view, from professionals such like you people
so my apologizes if my words was taken as upsetting, not intentionally !!

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[Claudia Rousseaux]

The “generalization” you seem to reject is a reality, we always make more money when we record directly for the client who initiated theproject:

When a project starts to emerge in Atlanta (or NY, or Moscow…) initiated by Company “x”, with $ …..,00 budget, then land in a company in charged to translate and find the voices to finally come back to Atlanta with the finished recorded audios… you can make sure that 50% of the initial budget for the talents has been lost in various commissions and fees; at the end, for an initial budget of $1000 (for example) for each talent, we are commonly offered $500.
Sad, but this is the ay it works…

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[Claudia Rousseaux]

Hi all,
You are all right regarding the rates, and all wrong…
Right, because a project can be paid according to a client’s budget, budget that can be very high or very low (obvious)…
Wrong, because a project’s rate should be based according to its final use and to the professionalism / experience of the NATIVE talent; in addition, the studio’s quality plays a major role too: a good voice recorded in a low quality studio will give a bad voice at the end;
And if we talk about famous people, the rate can raised up to the sky.
I am not famous, but experienced, professional, and my studio is A VERY high quality one. Replace this topic in its context: “non broadcast 60 mn recording”, without sound effect or special edit;
In that case I can write that $ 1500 is well paid: imagine a simple narration or description that will not bring any money back… I usually charge per word count, and the rate is different if it is an internal E-Learning / tutorial, in store video, a user manual on the client’s website, an introducing new product video to be marketed, a business presentation, a mobile app…
So… for one hour of “non broadcasted, non marketed, non commercial, non business” recording, my rates move from:

$696,00 / $730,80 / $767,34 / $805,71

I’ve been working for studios and Companies from all over the word for 10 years now (since I launched my own studio), these are the rates US clients pay me; European clients pays up to 30% more, Asian’s, 25% less…
Where is the difference?? You hired your voice talent directly, while most of us are hired throughout studios, Agents, intermediaries…
Your experience is important to me, please, kindly let me know how does the voice talents market works in your home based country, it can be more than helpful 🙂

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[Claudia Rousseaux]

$ 1500 for a narrative recording? I hope that the final project was marketed and sold to broadcast use… Very well paid indeed!! You will find my new 2016 rate list, very close to the current market offers to professional voice talents.
If your need in Spanish voice talent happens again, please feel free to contact me as a proofreader (quick overview without charge), I speak fluently Spanish (From Spain)
Claudia

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[Claudia Rousseaux]

Hi Todd,
As a French native Female professional voice talent for over 20 years, I can give you the regular rates usually applied for such job, even if I guess you already got the answer since long ago; I have a rate sheet for all kind of projects, I believe it will be helpful to set up your budgets in the future :
My rate sheet is based on: usual clients’ I work with, rate lists found on internet, quotations requested (and approved) by direct contacts;
The best way for you is to set up a rate per word count up to 1 minute of recording, we usually apply a minimum rate bellow 1 mn of recording (non broadcast and internal use), approximatively $120,00;
You can contact me at any time if you wish me to send my rates to you by email; you can contact me: claudiavoix@orange.fr
Hope to be helpful 🙂

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