free voice acting guides + resources

The Voice Acting Club is proud to host a variety of guides for both voice actors and content creators to help them navigate this ever-changing industry. These range from the basic “how to get started voice acting online” or “how to work with voice actors for your indie project”, all the way to navigating contracts, protecting yourself from scams, and even dealing with impostor syndrome! All articles are freely accessible on the web—you do not need to sign up for an account or join our Discord to access this information. In addition, our guides are 100% human-written and do not make use of generative AI.

With the closing of the VAC forums, we recommend bookmarking this page as this will become the new hub for VAC-hosted articles. These articles may be edited and reworked over time as the online landscape evolves. If you found these resources helpful, you may optionally support with a small tip to help with our web hosting costs!

If you’ve read through these articles and still have questions, that’s okay! Join our Discord (make sure to read the rules and channel descriptions) and chances are members from our community will be able to help you out.

table of contents

Disclaimers: These articles are primarily written from the viewpoint of an English-speaking actor living in the United States, and all points of view are subjective opinions rather than hard and fast industry rules. We recommend reading information written by multiple authors to get a variety of perspectives. Nothing in these articles constitutes legal, financial, or medical advice.

guides for voice actors

voice acting – general

the business of voice acting

protecting + advocating for yourself

etiquette + professionalism

mindset

technical

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guides for content creators

managing your project

miscellaneous

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guest article submission

The VAC thrives on community, and we’re happy to publish guest articles from our members on occasion so long as they align with our mission and vision. Please read the following guidelines below if you are interested in writing a guest article for our website.

guest article guidelines

  • The Voice Acting Club is run entirely by volunteers. No compensation will be provided for guest articles. However, you are welcome to include a link to your website or tip jar where others can support you if they wish. Attribution will be provided in the article using the name of your choosing.
  • We only publish 100% human-made articles—absolutely no generative AI may be used in the process of writing your article. (Assistive processes such as spell check are of course acceptable!)
  • Submissions may be edited for grammar, clarity and formatting, though every effort will be made to preserve the integrity and meaning of your article. You are welcome to propose changes or updates as needed.
  • The purpose of the article should be to provide information, knowledge and perspective to help up-and-coming voice actors and/or content creators. Articles that are created as thinly-veiled advertisements for one’s classes, coaching, channel/blog or other services will not be accepted.
  • By submitting your article, you grant permission for us to publish it here as well as in future iterations of the VAC. (However, if you ever wish to have your article edited, updated or removed, please get in touch so we can work that out!)
  • Guest articles feature the point of view of the guest contributor and do not necessarily reflect the viewpoints of the VAC as a whole.

submit your article

If you’ve read through and agree to the above, please fill out this Google Form link to submit your article:

(currently under construction – check back later!)

As we are currently backlogged with porting guides from the old forums over to the website, please be patient and allow time to review.

Our current biggest need is for articles about the technical side of the industry, preferably from those with experience in audio engineering.

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about the author

Hi! I’m Kira Buckland, a full-time professional voice actor based in the Los Angeles area as well as the original founder of the Voice Acting Club. My specialties lie primarily in localized projects such as video games and anime, but I’ve done a little bit of almost everything at this point!

When I first started voice acting over 20 years ago, there weren’t a lot of free resources available for how to go from being a hobbyist to a pro—so lots of us had to figure it out ourselves, however messy and challenging that ended up being along the way! One of my goals in founding the VAC, as well as writing these articles, has always been to create the type of resources I wish my peers and I had way back when we were starting out.

There have been plenty of guides (and even entire books) written by industry veterans who are far more experienced than I am, and they are certainly worth reading and recommending. But another reason I wrote this guide is because over the years, I kept getting questions about my specific journey as someone who started voice acting in the online indie scene and later worked my way up into making it my full-time career. The Internet landscape these days looks quite a bit different than things did for me in the mid-2000s with Flash animations and web-based games, but I try to keep up with the state of the industry and update articles as times change.

I volunteer my relatively limited free time to write the articles on this site as I believe everyone deserves to have access to this information. If you found the resources here helpful, please consider buying me a coffee!

While I don’t often have the time or bandwidth to respond to further questions individually, I highly suggest becoming an active member of the VAC Discord where you can get advice and perspectives from a variety of other actors rather than just myself. Everyone’s story looks a little different, so be prepared to forge your own path and find what works for you.

Best of luck on your journey!