Joining ACX as a New Producer / Narrator

As a voice over talent new to audiobook narration, I needed to work with a solid platform with structured support. From my research I could tell that ACX has made it their business to help authors and narrators find each other and make their audiobook production a success. They have video lessons, resources and ACX university and they feed the audiobooks into one of the biggest online stores on the web. It was the structure I needed. I spent a great deal of time watching their tutorial videos and ACX University.

Today on ACX’s home page it says there are 1469 book titles open for audition and around 93,000 registered producers. When I saw that there were almost 100,000 producers, I thought ‘there’s no way I have a chance’. I took a listen to some of the other Narrator/producers and sad to say many of the audio samples were of poor quality. The biggest problems were mouth noise and high noise floor. This gave me a bit of confidence since I knew my auditions were likely to stand out due to high quality audio production. After more research I realized there are actually only around 6500 ACX approved narrators(likely this doesn’t include the ones with low quality audio), but that’s still a lot of competition. I was encouraged by a couple vlogging voiceover artists on Youtube who reminded me that each voice is unique, and if it’s what the client is looking for, it’s the best voice for the project.  

Since I haven’t done any audiobook I have to post some excepts from scripts I’ve written or industrial narrations I’ve done. These will have to do until I’m able to replace them with samples from Audiobooks I’m yet to narrate.