Whiteboard Animation Video with Voiceover

The best whiteboard animation videos are characterized by excellent sound voice output. This fact should not surprise you. Even though you might not be consciously aware of the importance of a good voice, your subconscious does. There is plenty of documentation to support this case, but just one example: a 2015 study found that the high quality of a speaker’s voice is twice as essential as their message. 

The truth is that whiteboard videos are popular with content creators and viewers. And for a good reason: people love the creative expression of unique ideas presented concisely, aesthetically pleasing, and well-structured. Moreover, the video becomes intriguingly captivating when a perfectly synchronized voice-over is used in the animation. On the other hand, whiteboard animations are easy to produce and do not require special skills, talents, or professional software, which is an excellent advantage for the creators.

Professional voice-over is, in itself, a unique product niche. Most voice actors will never gain the kind of recognition that Ted Williams has gained because their work is behind the scenes. A typical company would not even consider hiring a person without first having a face-to-face interview to get an idea of how a candidate performs: his body language, eye contact, etc. When hiring a speaker, this paradigm is wholly flipped: it doesn’t matter what a speaker looks like or what they are wearing. The only point that matters is their voice. Does their voice attract attention? Does it exude authority? Is their voice down-to-earth and personable as well as confident? If the answer to these concerns is “yes,” that’s the voice you need for your whiteboard animation video.

Sometimes clients consider recording their voice, but that’s usually not good. The thing is: Everybody has a voice, and some people have perfect voices, but not everyone can develop an entire career around their voice. The voice is ultimately crafted no different than the guitar or piano. Remember that guy in your dorm room who had a guitar but appeared to practice and could only play a limp variation of “Wonderwall”? If you were recording a professional album with a big budget, would you work with him or with an experienced musician who jams for twenty hours every day? That’s precisely the difference.

Voice actors are great at what they do because they practice with regularity and dedication that only opera singers can match. Voice actors learn how to emphasize and exaggerate, and, most notably for whiteboard videos, they have a keen sense of timing. Imagine, for example, that your whiteboard video is almost perfect, but you and the production team instinctively know that it could be much better if you cut 6 to 7 seconds off the runtime. The problem is that you don’t want to cut anything from the script. In such a situation, only a voice actor can help. Knowing his instrument intimately, he can adjust the tempo of his speech so that everything works without compromising the quality of the presentation.