How to Land Voice-Over Jobs with No Experience (10 Sites to Try in 2026)

This is the list I'd work from if I were starting today. It shows what each site costs you and what it takes out of your pay.

Can you get voice over jobs with no experience?

Yes. People land their first jobs every week, including a lot of our students.

I'm not going to pretend it's easy, though. When I started on Fiverr in 2017, there were about 6,000 voice over gigs listed. Now there are more than 40,000.

The people who get hired pick a few of the right sites and get the basics in place first. They treat auditioning like part of a business instead of a lottery.

Every site below was re-checked in September 2026. Sites change their prices and fees, so check before you pay for anything.

What do I need before I start?

You don't need credits to start. You do need a few things, and most people skip at least one of them.

The acting. Voice acting is acting. I always say that your gear and your studio are the icing, and your ACTING is the cake. Clients hire the read. Get some training, then do the reps.

Reading out loud, a lot. Most of the job is picking up a script you've never seen and making it sound natural on the first or second take. Our free scripts library has 750 practice scripts, including a whole audiobook section.

Clean audio. You don't need an expensive studio. I built my business in a booth made of packing blankets.

But your audio has to be the best it can be for your setup. Bad audio knocks you out before anybody hears the acting. If you're setting up, read how to set up a voice over recording studio.

A few good samples. You don't need a professional demo on day one, but you need something for clients to hear. Keep them short and clean. Each one should show something different about you.

Which voice over sites should a beginner try?

I'd try these 10, in this order, starting with the free ones.

1. ACX

ACX is Audible's audiobook marketplace, and it's the open door I tell every beginner about. It's free to join and nobody has to approve you.

Authors post their books, you audition from a short excerpt, and they pick. Narrators get paid per finished hour or by royalty share. ACX doesn't take a cut of a per finished hour deal.

This is how I started. Audiobooks on ACX, and spooky Halloween voices on Fiverr.

My walkthrough is a separate post, ACX for Beginners. It covers setting up your profile and your first auditions.

2. Fiverr

Fiverr is free to join. You put up gigs (you get four to start). Buyers find them and either order or message you.

Fiverr takes 20 percent of every order, tips included. So if you want to take home $100, the order has to be about $125.

It's crowded now, but it's still where a lot of beginners get their first paid reads. Update your gig titles and tags every week and a half or so, and don't let a gig just sit there.

I wrote a whole post on making money on Fiverr as a voice over artist.

3. Academy Voices (if you're a member)

Academy Voices is our own audiobook publishing side. Our narrators have published over 790 audiobooks through it, and every VO Journey Academy member gets free access.

You narrate real books for real authors. On our in-house productions, royalties are paid for 20 years. When an author chooses royalty share, it's 10 years. There's also a file checker that fixes your files so they pass the technical requirements.

Full disclosure, we own it.

4. Upwork

Upwork is a big freelance marketplace with a lot of long-form work, like e-learning narration. Be aware going in that it isn't really free.

You send proposals using tokens called Connects, which cost about 15 cents each. Upwork also takes a fee of up to 15 percent on each contract.

My advice is to look at it every day, because jobs get posted all day long. And if you're just getting going on Upwork, be prepared to spend a couple of months of Connects before you see anything. That's just the way it is.

5. Voices.com

Voices.com is one of the two big pay-to-play casting sites. The Guest account is free. You get a profile for your demos, and clients can invite you privately.

To answer job postings you need Premium, which is $499 a year. Voices takes a 20 percent platform fee from your quote.

6. Voice123

Voice123 is the other big one. There's a free Starter plan, and paid plans at $495, $888 and $2,200 a year. The more you pay, the more of the matching projects you get invited to.

Voice123 doesn't take a commission, so you keep everything you quote.

I compared the two side by side in another post, Voices.com vs Voice123. My honest take is that neither one does the marketing for you, so I wouldn't make a paid site your first move.

7. Voquent

Voquent is free to be listed once your demo passes their review. It's strong for dubbing and non-English work.

Their site says it has about 44,000 voice over and dubbing specialists. They've changed how they work lately, pushing more leads straight to voice actors so you deal with the client directly.

8. Voice Crafters

Voice Crafters is free to join, but they screen who gets in. They take a 20 percent commission that's split with the client.

So 10 percent comes from you. That's one of the lowest cuts I've seen.

9. Casting Call Club

Casting Call Club is free, with cheap paid plans if you want them. Most of the roles are unpaid fan projects and indie games.

So it's a practice ground, not a paycheck. But it's a great place to get your first credits and to learn to take direction. Filter for paid work.

10. Your own clients

This is the one nobody lists. Local businesses, podcasters, YouTubers, the author whose book you just finished.

Nobody takes a cut, and one good client can send you work for years. Treat every client like one you want to keep, and ask the audiobook authors you work with what they're writing next.

Which sites would I skip for now?

I'd skip Bunny Studio and Findaway Voices for now.

Bunny Studio wasn't taking new voice talent when I checked in September 2026. Keep an eye on their site if you're interested.

And Findaway Voices, which a lot of older guides still send narrators to, closed its narrator marketplace back in 2023. It isn't a place to find narration work.

How do I spot a fake voice over job?

Real clients don't ask you to pay to get a job. The more visible you get, the more junk shows up.

Real clients also don't send you a check and ask you to pass some of it on to a "studio". And they don't need you on WhatsApp or Telegram to talk about a commercial.

For the general warning signs, the Federal Trade Commission has a good page on job scams. The voice over versions, and how to get paid safely, are in my own post, Voice Over Scams.

How do I know what to charge?

Before you quote anybody, know what the work usually pays. Our voice over rate guide has rates at three levels for every type of job. It also lists the fees for 37 platforms, and there's a free calculator.

I'm not going to promise you a number, because it depends on the work and on how much of it you do.

What do I do once I'm on a few sites?

Once you're on a few sites, the job is auditioning.

Keep track of every audition you send and every job that comes from it, so you know how many it takes you to book. Send more than one take, and make the takes actually different. And keep each audition quick, so you can send a lot of them.

I go into all of that in another post, How Many Auditions Does It Take to Book a Voice Over Job?

If you're right at the start, my step-by-step guide to starting voice acting with no experience puts all of this in order.

Do I have to do this by myself?

No, and I wouldn't. This business can be lonely if you do it by yourself in a closet.

Other voice actors will tell you about sites and clients you'd never find on your own. That's a big part of what VO Journey Academy is. We have live classes every week and a community of people a few steps ahead of you.

Marketing 101, my Tuesday class, is where we go through all these sites.

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