Authentic Commercial Voiceover

Build Your Commercial VO Career by Finding Your Friendly, Conversational, Confident Voice

By: Dave Bisson

Narrated by: Dave Bisson

Are you a voice actor trying to book more commercial VO jobs?

Maybe you’ve been told by a talent agent that you need a commercial demo reel to be represented by them.

Or maybe you hear again and again to “be conversational”, but aren’t sure how to get there.

In this audiobook, Voiceover Coach Dave Bisson will give you a tried-and-true method to find your natural conversational sound for any commercial voiceover script.

In Authentic Commercial Voiceover, you will learn:

• The approach Dave personally used to realize his dream of becoming a full-time voice artist of almost 10 years and counting.
• The two root causes as to why your reads are sounding “presentational”, “fake”, or “salesy”.
• How to break down any commercial script to find your friendly, conversational, confident read.
• Exercises you can do to experience facility and mastery of commercial VO reads.
• Ways to avoid the churn of doing take after take, trying to “nail the read”.

Authentic Commercial Voiceover gives aspiring voice actors the tools they need to master commercial copy, helping them realize their dreams of becoming a full-time voiceover talent.

©2023 Dave Bisson (P)2023 Dave Bisson

On point!

I was skeptical about how much I could learn from reading a book about voice over. This book gets straight to the meat of the topic and really explaining the difference between a sales pitch and conversational speech. Now I'm ordering the hard copy and recording more examples for myself to hear the difference in what I'm doing. Great book! Informative and no nonsense!

JCC VO

Key Take-away: No control? Throw it away. Practice "the voice" to take the backseat! This Book is Gold!!

No nonsense useful information

This short book provides practical information without a lot of extra fluff - it’s short, concise, and to the point. Performance was as one would expect for a book on voice over - professional and enjoyable. To steal from the book - it was a great conversation.

Great Practical Advice

The book is a quick read and full of informational nuggets and practical tips you can make use of right off the bat!

Great advice for voice over artists at any stage of their career.

Solid information shared in a constructive manner. Recommend combining the audiobook with the digital version so that you can follow all of the examples.

Practical and Insightful

Dave’s fantastic at breaking down his approach to commercial work. Key points are straightforward and the explanations behind them are concise and easy to follow. A great resource that I’ll definitely be referencing back to!

Great advice!

I’ll be putting this into practice immediately! I do need to re-listen with the scripts, I was driving so only listened to the audio

It's like buying cheat codes

I'm one of Dave's students. I have given Dave many dollars over the years to whip my commercial VO game into shape. I have used the lessons he taught me to book a good number of commercials, games, etc. I won't name drop you to death, but I do okay for myself. And I have to say...

...this isn't fair.

Dave's coaching and knowledge is so valuable that I threw money at him like handfuls of rice at a wedding because his guidance and nuggets of wisdom were actively helping me level up my VO career.

And Dave gives it all to you in an hour... for less than the cost of a lunch. It just... isn't... FAIR!

He's LITERALLY giving you the keys to the castle in this book.

Don't get me wrong, you should be aware that this is DEFINITELY a "simple but not easy" thing. So you should follow up with regular coaching once Dave gives you the map. You wouldn't just expect to read a book titled, "How to ride a bike," and then just expect to go do it correctly on the next try, would you?

But golly gosh, gee whiz, this book should be THE required reading you must do before jumping into commercial VO.

Whether you're just getting in or need a way to reground yourself in "the rules" of commercial VO when you catch yourself falling into bad habits, this should be your go-to book.

A MUST READ FOR VOICE ACTORS!

Just like Dave's coaching sessions, this book is illuminating!
His simple, straightforward approach makes understanding the 'how and why' of voiceover incredibly easy.
This book genuinely feels like 20 coaching sessions concentrated down into a bite-sized format.
Using what I learned from coaching with Dave I booked a commercial ad campaign for a major bank brand.
The literal feedback they gave was, "We hired you because of your conversational tone." I had just finished coaching with him at that time. He's the real deal! Reading and applying his sage advice will undoubtedly help you gain confidence, level up your performance skills, get demo-ready and booking in no time!