Voice123Reviews 85

I spent the $99 for the plan that should've gotten me more options to record and, hopefully, offers. I believe I submitted samples 78 times and didn't get one offer. I used to work in radio and know my voice is worthy enough, but this is a joke. AND, in the last month or so of my paid subscription, I rarely heard from Voice123. Don't waste your money with this company!

So, once again Voice123 sent me their weekly sample page, and, once again, I've received an invitation for 1% of the projects listed.
I am so beyond unhappy with my current membership. I am barely getting any auditions this year, when I got plenty of auditions last year under the same plan. Also, SO many auditions seem to "become available" in the middle of the night and are closed for booking before 6am. This smells like total bull$#*! to me. As for their recent email about sample projects for the week, only ONE of those opportunities was given to me, and it didn't even make sense because I cannot do a New Zealand accent, nor do I have it listed in my skills. I paid almost $1000 for what feels like NOTHING! Every time I get these summary emails from you, showing me what I am NOT getting for my $888, it makes me sick to my stomach. My membership was a positive experience until my membership renewed on January 5th, and now, the few opportunities from Voice123 have been pure garbage. I am so upset and feel so ripped off. The last communication I had from them basically told me that I had to change my settings to allow projects requesting quotes. Again, I had the same tier membership in 2023 and received plenty of quality leads. This year, the leads are so poor, it's as if I only have a level 1 plan. Total rip off.

Been a subscriber for years and they removed my good reviews! Three years after they were posted they said they were unable to verify them, despite finding the original posting for the bookings and me showing them the finished work. What company would actively work against their clients? Terrible terrible customer service - no resolution. I won't be renewing.

V123 punishes talent that can't afford the higher, exorbitantly priced subscriptions. The copious, cream of the crop auditions are showered upon them. The offerings get less and less the lower down the financial totem pole you are. Auditions should be accessible to all voice talent. The "other", arguably more popular and professional big name P2P site is fantastic with one yearly fee and tons of listings daily. Everyone has a fair shot. Never any bugs with their site either. V123 will often crash when I'm in the middle of update my profile info or samples. It also has a bad habit of sending me laughable matches which often are not even in the correct gender or language! The few times I have contacted the help line (after fighting with the bot), I get a response that makes almost no sense and skirts over my issue. Did they even read my concern? I could kick myself for subscribing for another year (I'm in the mid-range subscription.) The jobs that are right for me are few and far between, but the 5 to 10 or so jobs I do land per year are good ones. Is it worth it? I'm not so sure. I find plenty of voice work on my own without paying to audition. I think this might be my last year with V123. It just always seems to be more trouble than its worth. My money is better spent on education or equipment.

They take your money then you cant audition for jobs. You have to hope they invite you. Then they send you invites that dont fit your spec. If you complain they cancel you. Dont join!

I've been part of the Voice123 community since 2007. The level of talent and buyers has always been quality and meeting industry standards. While there will always be first time talent and/or clients, Voice123 has a strong supply of both outstanding competitive talent and legit, professional buyers from small to big agencies. Always happy to do business with buyers on Voice123.com.

Hundreds to thousands of voiceover jobs are available for audition on this online casting marketplace and hundreds to thousands of voiceover talent are there to competitively apply. That said, talent is of the utmost professional and Voice123 will help, if ever you have a question.

I was an active paid subscriber to Voice123 for a few years around 2015 - 2020. I auditioned regularly and got many meaningful VO gigs. Around 2020 I let my subscription lapse and stopped doing VO briefly. About a year ago I inquired about re-upping my subscripttion and messaged customer service for guidance. No response. I attempted again a few months ago because I wanted to know if they were still actively in business before I gave them my CC info for the $395 subscription price. Once again, crickets. I went out into the VO community to see if Voice123 was still a viable option for work. No one responded. These experiences, along with the multitude of negative reviews here, lead me to conclude that Voice123 is a ghost town. It's a shame because I wish to resume my VO career but these sites are all I know (Voice.com doesn't seem to have any better reviews). Not buying under these circumstances.

I got my start here, but... it's not what it once was. Voice123 used to be good in the mid 2010s but there are now too many pricing tiers to choose from and it seems even the $888/year tier is pointless to continue. From over-auditioned opportunities where the client asks for 50 auditions and gets back over 100 by the time I'm invited, to the incessant need to beg for Likes and Hearts (to satisfy the ranking algorithm), the platform has figured out the perfect way to hoodwink you into thinking you have a chance. The harsh reality is that the Non-Union VO market is oversaturated, they know it, and are raking in the dough from anyone who doesn't already know the game has already been played--and those at the top (e.g. Those who pay multiple thousands of dollars per year) will remain at the top, with early access to the best auditions.

So long.

After 2 months of being a VOICE 123 Worker, I have not established any link despite the fact that they send me between 3 and 6 tasks a day and I answer all of them.

It seems to me that there is something obscure in this, since I have noticed that they send me the same task separated in 3 different invitations, that is, since I order all the tasks in a WORD document, I was able to realize that he sends me, for example, Tuesday the first part of three of a text, Wednesday morning the second part that is a continuation of that same writing only in a different invitation and Wednesday night in another invitation that is the third part of a complete text.

I wonder if I've been a fool completing Tasks that I do professionally and someone else is getting paid for me?

On other occasions they send an Invitation that is clearly the complete task but they have never paid me 1 cent for those tasks, there are works that I have completed of more than 600 words that they send as "Script for custom audition". In this case, the task would be practically completed but they do not pay anything for doing it.

I have started to work on my own in Social Networks looking for Tasks by myself since I start to think that these Freelancer type sites make us work but not pay, how can I know on this side of my Laptop?

I was previously a Premium Member for a year. I have been a Professional Voice Artist for over 45 Years.
I received ONE $40 script in that year.
It seems whomever is in the Same Time Zone as You gets the scripts Immediately.
I get the New Notification for a script and am told either:
1) The allotted number of auditions have been Filled...OR...
2) A talent has already been chosen for this client.
It was Not worth my $395 and certainly did not entice me to purchase Your $600 Membership...Right?

Voice is a bit better in the morning as I have a couple of days to get back to work and I have to wait for the rest of

I bought a cheaper plan to give this a try. Got plenty of auditions for first six weeks then ironically right after my 30 day refund window the auditions completely dried up. When I spoke with to Voice123 customer service "it was because I needed to upgrade" and they literally said, "you won't be happy with us unless you buy the $395 plan." I will never find out because i'm not interested. Lol. Just thought you all should be informed!

I have been a member, under both free and paid plans. I have been a paid member intermittently and have seen the changes over time, which unfortunately are for the negative. The system changes they use contribute to a downward trend to individual workers as well as the industry as a whole. Overall, I would not readily recommend this site to others, and would not look to renew my membership after it's time has been completed.

Updating for 2022:
Still don't recommend. From a fellow working VO friend's advice, I tried restarting my membership in a higher-paid tier. The way they've adjusted their auditions means that everything is more saturated than before (as long as you pay, you can audition, even past the requested number a client puts in). Some clients request 50 auditions, and by the time you receive the post, they're already at 70+!
Meanwhile, the quality of clients and work have gone down. There are SO many requests for vastly underpaid audiobooks (e.g. Asking for 10's to 100's of 1000s of words for a few hundred dollars) or to use your voice for AI with no future rights or percentage, at a very low price. AND their ranking system continues to work against you! Basically, you get marked down for auditioning but not getting chosen, which of course is more likely when again these clients are getting bombarded with auditions, and you're getting sent less opportunities with real openings.

The lack of quality control makes the website feel even more like it's going toward the trend of collecting money for itself while contributing to a downward spiral for any kind of standard quality VO industry. Very disappointed and currently cannot recommend in good conscience.

2020: Unfortunate that many problems that plagued my original year of using Voice123 have persisted, only seeming to get worse. Returning after a year or two of taking a break, I found that the new system is worse in providing opportunities. The rating system seems more volatile, and I shot from Bottom 50% to Top 30% to Bottom 30% in consecutive weeks, and am now only receiving 1-3 auditions a day. This is a very low amount when most of the better gigs are already slanted to their established VO Platinum tier, and the automated system often gets the ones you receive wrong (asking for a specific ethnicity or accent that the profile is not specific enough to catch).

I had some success on Voices.com with some hired jobs, enough to quadruple what I had spent for the premium membership. So I decided to check out Voices123.com as well to see if I could have some success there as well. Boy, was I mistaken. The site's UI is absolutely atrocious, MUCH worse than Voices.com's site. The jobs that actually pay money are few and far between, and even when there are jobs like those, by the time they trickle down to you (as there are paid membership tiers), your audition won't even matter. All this with the caveat that there's a 30 day money back guarantee UNLESS you get in during a discount, which I did. Then they refuse to refund you. Ridiculous. Stay far away from this platform if you know what's good for you.

I regularly book work as a voiceover artist on Voice123. The platform is easy to use and I can continue my relationship with the client beyond the first job. Their customer service is helpful and friendly and quick to respond.

Not one audition has ever been approved and I simply didn not know if my voice was being used without my permission.

I would say steer clear because it seems very scam-like.

I was shocked to find out that when you submit and audition the clients have the option to download your audition. That means if your audition is not watermarked they can actually use your recording and you won't even know it, without paying you for it. You wonder why you audition for so many jobs and never hear back. Some clients even have the nerve to say no watermark on auditions. Hmmm I wonder why. Why does Voices123 allow this? Why can't they just have clients listen and not download. That feature is unnecessary. I guess they don't care, as long as they get their annual fee. I can't imagine how many people have been scammed on this site.

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In the past, Voice123 used to be effective for talents, with better chances of booking regular work if you were talented and driven. However, in 2023, things have changed, and the site has become more of a "Pay-to-Play" platform in the truest sense. Booking work now seems to rely heavily on paying for higher membership tiers of $888 and above or being grandfathered in from years of listing, regardless of the changing algorithm. Many at the platinum levels are either recognizable figures or potentially involved in industry scams.

Higher memberships don't seem to be worth it as downgrading didn't yield positive results either. The rating system based on clients' "likes" on proposals can be misleading, as you may receive multiple hires without corresponding "likes," causing ratings to plummet.

The site primarily offers non-union work with in-perpetuity buy-outs and extreme usage terms, which may not be ideal for beginners. The ratio of NonUnion to Union jobs is significantly skewed, with a vast majority leaning towards non-union work.

Another drawback is the site's navigational issues and frequent bugs, causing crashes or freezing.

Reviewers have found customer service lacking in addressing concerns or issues effectively.

Ultimately, the decision to use Voice123 depends on personal preference, but users are advised to be cautious and explore other online sites that might offer better experiences.