I love watching voice over recording sessions. Here’s Michael Madsen creating his voice over for Yakuza. He has a terrific character voice — lot’s of grit and presence.

Voiceovers: offscreen, offstage or otherwise unseen narrations, announcements or vocal utterances — voice — usually (but not necessarily) heard over visual images.
These are all examples of voice overs:

radio and TV station identifications,
documentary narrations,
voicemail greetings,
web voice-assist prompts,
corporate video narrations,
training narrations,
radio commercials,
off-camera television commercials,
medical narrations,
audio book narrations,
Mary Alice Young’s insights on Desperate Housewives, and
the most

I really don’t turn every email I get into a blog, but recent exchanges have asked really great questions. Most recently, a site visitor wrote me:
Hi Nikki,
I love your voice. I have been told I have a nice voice. I am interested in finding someone who can help me break-into the Voice-Over industry. I