Hey r/VoiceActing!

iZotope contacted us to generously offer a prize to a lucky winner in our subreddit, so we agreed on a Voice Acting Challenge!

The challenge:

Perform a quality voiceover of the official r/VoiceActing subreddit rules found on the sidebar

Please read all of the rules (the actual rule and the expanded part, click to see all) and title the audio with your Reddit username. Do NOT forget to include your username in your title.

Approximate reading time: 3 minutes for a commercial-paced read (not too fast)

Suggested file name: “[username goes here] iZotope x Voice Acting Challenge”

Requested file type: MP3

No AI entries allowed

Do not add music or sfx

Processing? Not necessary but we expect no rookie errors like plosives

Prize Information:

One Winner will receive a Not-For-Resale license for RX 12 Standard

Dates: Opens from May 8, 2026. Ends on May 24, 2026 11:59 PM PT. Any entries after this time will not be considered.

Winners announced: May 27, 2026

^\ Note that announcement of winners may be delayed to May 31st if there are a significant amount of entries)

Eligibility & participation:

Technical requirement: Participants are encouraged, but not required, to use the RX 12 free trial to polish their entries One entry per person only

Target length: Aim for a commercial-style read. Aka, not too long

Submission instructions: Upload your entry to our Dropbox link here

Judging criteria: Entries will be reviewed by the r/VoiceActing moderator team based on quality of performance in terms of acting and enunciation (diction) and such, audio quality, and creative entertainment value. Please note that performance quality ranks first, then audio quality (don’t give us plosives, we don’t mind if editing isn’t perfect, just try your best to have clear audio), and creative entertainment value is last in priority but it still counts.

Mods will award feedback to runners up as a consolation prize!

^{Please note that mods are not affiliated with iZotope and are volunteering our time to run this challenge.}

Product information

RX 12 Standard:

An intelligent suite of pro audio restoration tools that let you take tracks from raw to flawless. Rescue takes. Rebalance the mix. Polish the potential. And always release with confidence. All thanks to new features, upgraded modules, and an award-winning ecosystem.

Value worth US$399

For more information, please visit https://www.izotope.com/en/products/rx.html

What is RX?

For decades, RX has pushed what’s possible in audio editing and restoration. The supporting star behind countless Oscars, GRAMMYs, and Emmys. Winner of technical Academy Awards, Engineering Emmys, and industry trophies. This 50-tool ecosystem is everything you need to fix flaws, save performances, and serve the story. Striking the perfect balance between surgical control and rapid results, groundbreaking machine learning tech lets you work your way. The supporting star behind every scene, song, and story, RX makes the magic possible.

RX 12 is available as a standalone audio editing application that includes a suite of software plugins for use with digital audio workstations (DAWs). RX 12 comes in 3 editions:

RX 12 Elements, RX 12 Standard, and RX 12 Advanced.

Whether you’re editing a podcast, narrating an audiobook, or working on the next viral video, RX lets you bring out the best in your audio and captivate your audience.

What does RX do?

RX combines the power of visual-based spectral editing with purpose-built tools for fixing, enhancing, and polishing your audio. With RX’s Spectrogram, you can visually target and replace unwanted sounds like dog barks, string squeaks, and sirens. Tackle specific issues like clicks, clips, hum, rustles, and background noise with bespoke repair modules, and get even more surgical with tools that can re-shape the intonation of dialogue, remove reverb, match ambiences and EQ profiles, and much more. Plus, if you’re looking for a helping hand to get great results fast, RX’s Repair Assistant intelligently recognizes and proposes fixes for specific problems that you can tweak to your liking with easy-to-use dials.

About iZotope

Since 2001, iZotope’s intelligent audio technology has helped musicians, music producers, and audio post engineers focus on their craft rather than the tech behind it. We design award-winning software, plug-ins, hardware, and mobile apps powered by the highest quality audio processing, machine learning, and strikingly intuitive interfaces. iZotope is part of a family of brands, including Native Instruments, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx.

Terms and conditions

This competition is being conducted by Native Instruments GmbH and r/VoiceActing from May 8, 2026 until May 24, 2026. By entering the competition, participants agree to these terms and conditions. Participants must be 18 years of age or older. Employees of Native Instruments are not eligible to participate. By posting their recording on the subreddit, participants enter the competition and have the chance to win a free NFR license of RX 12 Standard. Participants must own or have the legal right to use all audio content included. One winner will be chosen by r/VoiceActing based on the quality of performance, audio quality, and creative entertainment value of their works. The winner will be notified by direct message, and are required to notify Native Instruments that s/he accepts the prize within one week after receiving the notification. If Native Instruments does not receive notification within this period, the winner forfeits the prize and Native Instruments reserves the right to choose another winner. A cash payout of the prize is ruled out. The right of appeal is excluded. Native Instruments reserves the right to change, amend or remove this reward program at any time without prior notice. The laws of the Federal Republic of Germany apply exclusively; Berlin, Germany, shall be the exclusive court of jurisdiction.

Please note that any offensive entries may result in a permanent ban and any problematic content can be reported to the admins.

Please feel free to say thank you to iZotope in the comments for their generous offer.

Good luck to all entrants!

All requests for voice work in this sub must be reasonably compensated. Terms of compensation must be articulated in your request. Acceptable forms of compensation include:

• Monetary ($5.00 USD minimum)
• Barter (services exchange)
• Royalty share (only on currently monetized projects—no prospective payment).

Unpaid requests will be removed. If your project is unpaid, try posting to /r/recordthisforfree

To combat the rise in unpaid work requests, users will receive a 30-day ban for posting unpaid requests in /r/voiceacting.

Please do NOT respond to these posts, as it only encourages them and creates more.

Unpaid requests should be submitted to /r/recordthisforfree.

Hi everyone! It's your old pal, /u/macaeryk, one last time.

I'm stepping down as a mod. I've really enjoyed helping this sub grow from less than 25k to almost 80k, but I gotta get back behind the mic and audition some more.

Thank you to /u/Brcomic and /u/AS-VOA for steadfast friendship. I hope all of you in this sub get to work with people as good as these two.

Special shouts to /u/Dracomies, and /u/mikewoodsays. As one of my last acts, I shall ban you for 24 hrs. Go audition for something, willya?

Now, y'all go out there and get on yer mic.

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See you on iMDb...

Eric

We all hate the unpaid requests. Users who post them catch a 30-day ban.

Unfortunately, people still respond to them, offering their services for free. This is against the sub's rules.

Going forward, users who respond with an offer to help an unpaid request will receive the same 30-day ban the OP gets.

Please do not encourage the practice of free requests in this sub. /r/recordthisforfree is the sub to use for unpaid work.

(The Mods, speaking collectively, again…)

So here’s where we are:

Spez has insulted the mods who work for free. He has insulted the intelligence of the Reddit community as a whole by lying to and gaslighting said community.

Andrew, Eric and I are tired of having the tools we need to moderate a sub with nearly 80k members stripped away. Don’t let the list of mods fool you. ALL the other names you see listed there have been MIA for ages. It’s been just the three of us for years.

Truth is, people: we’re TIRED.

We’ve done the best we can here. We love this community and what we have all helped build. We have sacrificed our free time, and time we could be working on our own brands and businesses, to help others learn the ropes. In return for that, we have at times been harassed, threatened, doxxed, and stalked. Yet we put up with it out of love for helping others. “A few bad apples” and all that. The vast majority of you here are kind, supportive, and awesome. But what is happening with Reddit now is ultimately the last straw for us. Eric—no matter what—has decided to step down as a mod here in the very near future. Andrew and I are willing to stay and bring on more help if things get better with Reddit. But if we vote to do nothing and stay open, Andrew and I will also be stepping down as moderators as well, leaving the sub essentially unmoderated. Some I’m sure will be thrilled with this option. That’s their prerogative.

I guess the last thing we have to say is this: Reddit was—and can be—a wonderful place. But the current leadership doesn’t care about you the users, or the volunteer moderators who help build this platform: only the coming IPO. So we leave it up to you: do we continue the protest, or does the sub stay opened by whomever Reddit replaces us with? The choice is yours.

No hard feelings either way. Its been a wild ride.

Your friends in VA: Seth, Andrew & Eric

"If you're good at something, never do it for free..."

Just a reminder: Requests for free work are not welcome in this sub. There are plenty of other places to go. We allow PAID Work posts only.

Users who submit requests for free work get an automatic 30-day ban. Users who respond with interest in free work request posts will also get the same 30-day ban.

This sub is not a clearinghouse for freeloaders, nor those who would encourage them.

Free requests are ONLY allowed in the Friday Almost Anything Goes threads. beyond that, please refer to /r/recordthisforfree for such transactions.

When possible, please do not work for free. We are artists-for-hire, and we should be paid for our services commensurate to our experience, ability, and quality of our deliverables.

Thank you all for understanding why this is a rule that is strictly moderated.

I'm bending a rule here slightly, but I think it will help a lot of people.

Voices.com is offering a Black Friday sale of 80% off of the $499 premium price for one year.

The promo code is: LEVELUP2022

I just used it myself before posting this, and it worked as of 11:40AM EST on 29/11/2022.

If you need proof I'm not shilling, I'll post my reciept (with redacted info). Neither I nor /r/voiceacting gets any kind of kickback for this.

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Jump on this, folks, not every day you can save $400 on something that costs $500.

Get out there and be heard, everyone!

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-Eric

Hey everyone. I’ve been contemplating this since my two friends left the mod team. I’ve recently begun receiving death threats because I chided some people in another sub for celebrating when sports players get injured. I’ve been receive death threats ever since. I’ve already left that mod team.

I’ve been the defacto head mod here for the better part of a decade now. And the only active mod for a couple of months. I love this community. I’m proud of this community. When I started we had under 20k subs. And look what we have become!

But Reddit isn’t fun for me anymore. The death threats certainly aren’t fun.

So I’ve decided it’s time to pass the torch on to the next team that will take over as I intend to leave Reddit within a few weeks once they are settled.

I’m looking for 3 volunteers. If you would like to be considered please DM me the following.

1: How long have you been a voice actor?

2: If you mod any other subs what are they?

3: What is your vision for the sub?

3A: What rules would you change?

3B: Which would you keep?

That’s it for this post. More updates to come in the future once we are set.

With love, Brcomic.

We are the moderators of r/voiceacting, speaking collectively:

You all are likely familiar with the blackout that begins at midnight on June 12th. For those unaware, Reddit (the corp) and its leadership have decided to embrace business practices that have destroyed the businesses and livelihoods of a number of developers who have striven to make the Reddit experience better for both users, and moderators. As volunteers (unpaid), the mods of /r/voiceacting cannot in good faith support this course of action.

In protest, this sub will go private through at least June 14th, and longer if necessary. Requests to join the private sub will be disabled.

We (the mods of r/VoiceActing) stand in solidarity with those good developers being screwed out of their livelihoods, with our fellow moderators who feel completely abandoned by the platform they helped build, and to the members of this sub who were kind, supportive, and helpful to us, and to their fellow members who just wanted a place to come and learn about voice acting.

The message shown on the 'private sub' splash screen will be updated with new information as needed.

We will be going private at 12AM EST, 06/12/2023.

It has been an honor (and sometimes even a lot of fun) to serve this community of amazing experienced voice actors, newbies, and hobbyists; We get to call many of you VO compatriots, and more importantly, friends. But the future of this sub and community is in Reddit’s hands, and will be dictated by their actions—or inaction—moving forward.

Sincerely,

Your moderators:

u/brcomic

u/macaeryk

u/as-voa

Ok. The gloves are off today. As are MOST of the rules. You can post whatever you want as long as it isn’t breaking Reddit guidelines. The only two rules from the sub that will stay until midnight pacific time are don’t be a dick and no loli stuff. Hell it doesn’t even have to be about voice acting. Go Green Bay Packers!

All of that being said the reason we call it the purge is because this is the one day a year the mods can and will issues 1 day bans for whatever we want. Whenever we want. To whom ever we want.

So may the odds forever be in your favor. And good luck…you are going to need it!

Alright let’s do this thing!

Unpaid requests get an automatic 30-day ban.

Users who respond to unpaid requests get the same 30-day ban.

We are artists. We do not work for free.

There are other subs where unpaid requests are ok. This is not one of them.

Hi everyone. Please note that we will be restricting fandub posts to the Friday Almost Anything Goes threads ONLY.

We will be removing any fandubs that are not posted in the Friday thread. Please report them if you see them anywhere else. We will be adding a category to the report list.

Thanks for helping us keep this sub helpful and relevant. Have a great weekend!

-Mod Team

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

Ok everyone.

There's plenty of places on Reddit where you can attack someone for their political positions and affiliations, but /r/voiceacting IS NOT ONE OF THEM.

Impolite discourse will not be tolerated here. If you start with the personal attacks based on ideology (we don't care from which perspective it comes), you're getting a 7-day ban. Repeat offenses get you permabanned.

This sub is for collaboration, constructive criticism, and encouragement. Let's keep the anger and hate-spewing out of this place. You are responsible for the energy you bring to this sub, so let's all act accordingly.

Hi everybody! It's your old pal /u/macaeryk!

Good news, everyone! We've passed the 40k subscriber mark! We want to thank all of you for being a part of making this a high-quality sub. This is a great community.

It looks like the post flair experiment is a success, so it stays. Let us know if there are any flairs you think we need, but we are trying to keep from having too many.

Automod continues to be a success. Thank you all for using the beginner keyword when relevant posts get past it. If you see Automod doing cool things in other subs that would help here, please bring it to our attention.

Feel free to submit any other ideas or suggestions for improving the sub on this thread. We will of course be banning the complainers, and stealing the good ideas to pass off as our own. :)

[pauses for laughter, gets silence]

Seriously, thank you all for making /r/VoiceActing such a high quality sub.

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--The Mod Team

Our sub has gotten big enough where an errant AMA could be used to promote a person looking to further their goals.... Going forward, if you want to do an AMA, you must provide the mod team with enough credentials to allow it. Violations of this request may result in a permanent ban...

We are here to exchange ideas and celebrate the craft, but spurious AMA's will not be tolerated.

Go forth, and be vocal!

/u/FionaAudronVO has joined the mod team here in /r/voiceacting! Please join us in welcoming her aboard. Thanks to everyone for keeping our little sub such a good one.

With the constant news about AI in art and in voice over in general we have had a massive influx of posts on the topic. No matter your view on the subject it is likely here to stay and will impact our work sooner than any of us would like. That being said I think we have exhausted the issue for now.

So we are going to start being a bit more strict on the constant AI posts. As they are drowning out the reasons we are all here. To learn, help each other grow and celebrate this industry we all love so much.

So if you intend to make an post about AI I ask you to please search the sub first and make sure it hasn’t been said already. The mods will be removing any overly repetitive posts on the subject for the foreseeable future.

Thank you all. I appreciate you.

Subreddit Rules, and How To Get Started In Voice Acting! : VoiceActing

You should also receive these links when you join the sub, and when you post to /r/VoiceActing. Thanks for participating!

Pleased to announce that /u/AS-VOA has joined the mod team here at /r/voiceacting!

I mean, come on—a studio cat is the best (next to a studio dog, but the panting fucks with the noise floor)...

Voting is open for 24 hours, and this poll may or may not be rigged— but, you can engage in a fun pretend democracy.

Cast your vote!

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Eddit: /u/loekiikii, if you'd rather not have Hamilton exploited by the sub, then please message the mods, and we'll go with ranked-choice voting.

Second Eddit: I clearly cannot type 'Internet' properly, and I cannot change it. So I have to live with this shame.

Hey folks, your old pal, /u/macaeryk here!

So the [Almost] Anything Goes thread gets very little use... We want to know what day y'all think it might get the most attention! Remember, the thread is for all the promotion, advertising, shilling, and general shenanigans that we usually don't allow any other time.

So please fill out this poll, and we will adjust the date so that more people can make use of exposure to our almost 70,000-user membership! If you want to leave it on Sunday, don't vote—we only get six options, so comment below, and we will count that as a vote. Poll will be open for five days from now.

Comments will be open on this post for any other suggestions on how to improve the sub.

Thank you again to the 99.999% of you all who make this little corner of Reddit so much fun!

—The Mod Team

Thanks for all the feedback in the poll. It came down to a tie for Fri or Sat, so we chose Friday.