Every quote is scoped to your script and usage. These are typical starting points, not fine print.
The prices above are honest starting points, not a menu with hidden extras. Here's what actually shapes a quote, so there are no surprises when the number comes back.
A spot is short but dense — every second is doing work, so the read matters more per word than anywhere else. A spot quote covers two or three fully directed takes (a punchier one, a warmer one, a straighter one), edited and mastered to broadcast or web loudness, with a 48-hour turnaround. What moves the price is usage: a spot running as paid national TV carries a different licence than one living on your own website, and we price the licence, not just the recording. Tag reads and short IVR lines sit at the lower end of this tier.
Documentary, corporate and explainer narration is a stamina job — the voice has to stay warm and consistent across ten minutes without drifting or fatiguing. This tier includes full direction, chaptered delivery so you can drop sections onto a timeline, and two revision rounds because long scripts almost always get a tweak or two after the client hears them in context. Price scales mainly with finished runtime and the amount of technical vocabulary that needs a pronunciation pass.
Course work is quoted per module because that's how it's produced and how it's usually revised. The priority here is consistency: module 1 and module 40 have to sound like the same person on the same day, which means locked settings, a maintained pronunciation guide for domain terms, and pickups folded in as content changes. We deliver in LMS-ready formats and keep the project files so that a corrected slide six months from now doesn't mean re-recording the whole unit.
Because two 200-word scripts can be wildly different jobs. A 200-word straight corporate read and a 200-word ad with a dozen brand names, a legal tag and three tone shifts take very different time and skill. Quoting per job rather than per word means you pay for the actual work, not a lowest-common-denominator average.
Three things, mostly: broader usage/licensing, tight rush deadlines, and heavy pronunciation or technical density that needs prep. We'll always tell you which of these is driving a number so you can adjust the brief if budget is tight.
Yes — send the script (or an accurate word count and usage) and you'll get a firm number, not a "starting from." No work begins until you've approved it in writing.
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