Voice Actors

Welcome to the TravelBrains Career Center. We are regularly seeking quality voice talent. Listed below are sample scripts from previous projects. If you are interested in applying for any future roles, please make a recording of the sample scripts (compact discs only please) and send it to the following address:

TravelBrains
14 Tether Rd
Bedford NH 03110

IMPORTANT: We have an in-house recording studio and prefer to work with voice actors who are able to commute to our office in Bedford New Hampshire. We gladly accept auditions from anywhere, but feel it is important to let you know that local talent is preferred.

Unfortunately, we do not have the time to respond to each submission. We keep each voice actor audition in our library and regularly review them at the start of each new project. Thank you for your interest in working with TravelBrains and we look forward to hearing your audition.

Voice Over Roles

Sample Script 1: On a balmy November day in 1863, standing before a crowd of approximately 15,000 people gathered to dedicate a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a National Cemetery, President Abraham Lincoln gave a speech lasting little more than two minutes. The speech was so short in fact that no photographers were even ready to capture the event before the President sat down again. His brief address, however, would be forever remembered as one of the most important speeches in the history of the United States of America. His words captured the magnitude of sacrifice that brave soldiers had endured on these very hills and used that emotion to re-ignite the willpower of the North to see the war through to its conclusion.

Sample Script 2: Is it possible for a building in Yellowstone National Park to rival nature’s marvels? Take a walk through the Old Faithful Inn…the brainchild of a 29-year-old architect named Robert Reamer and decide for yourself. His vision was so compelling, it inspired an architectural revolution. Prior to the Old Faithful Inn, park hotels were all designed as modern structures like you might find in any big city. They were meant to stand out from their surroundings, to give civilized people an image of home that would help calm their fears after a day spent in the wilderness. Even Reamer was on that path when he first landed the job. Believe it or not, the original plan for the building was a massive Queen Anne Victorian hotel. But after visiting the site, he changed his mind.

Sample Script 1: The enemy were held for some time, the work of death going on without ceasing. They were the Twenty-sixth North Carolina and expected to meet militia only, and have an easy victory. But their dead and wounded lay quite as numerous as our own among the trees. Lieutenant Porter Farley 140th NY Infantry.

Sample Script 2: We were in this wheat field and the grain stood almost breast high. The Rebs had their slight protection, but we were in the open, without a thing better than a wheat straw to catch a Minnie bullet that weighed an ounce. Of course, our men began to tumble. They lay where they fell, or if able, started for the rear. Near to me I saw a man named Daily go down, shot through the neck. I made a movement to get his gun, but at that moment I was struck in the shoulder. Lieutenant Porter Farley 140th NY Infantry.

Sample Script 3: As we reached the crest, a never to be forgotten scene burst upon us. A great basin lay before us full of smoke and fire, and literally swarming with riderless horses and fighting, fleeing and pursuing men. The air was saturated with the sulphurous fumes of battle and was ringing with the shouts and groans of the combatants. The wild cries of charging lines, the rattle of musketry, the booming of artillery and the shrieks of the wounded were the orchestral accompaniments of a scene like very hell itself.. But fascinating as was this terrible scene we had no time to spend upon it. Bloody work was ready for us at our very feet. Lieutenant Porter Farley 140th NY Infantry.

Confederate Soldier
Coaching Tips: Similar to the Union soldier with the main exception that these are men from southern states. The accents should be middle-of-the-road, not twangy or aristocratic. We're looking for a more refined subtle southern accent that is clear but not over bearing. We are looking for something that you might expect to hear listening to Ken Burn's documentary on the Civil War. These are actual quotes from soldiers' diaries. Try several different styles for each quote: a somber recount of the events as if reading from the soldiers diary many years after the events, an excited version that makes you feel like the memory is still fresh, and a resolved inspirational version. These are soldiers between the ages of 18 to 35.

Sample Script 1: The men sprang forward as if in a game of ball. The air was full of sound. A long line of federal skirmishers protected by a stone wall immediately opened fire. Grape and canister from the federal battery hurled over us as we descended the hill into the valley. The men were falling stricken to death. In the din of battle you could hear the charge of canister passing over us with the noise of partridges in flight. Private WC Ward 4th Alabama Infantry

Sample Script 2: We passed through a corn field and in riding through it, it seemed to me that the grape and canister mowed down the cornstalk over me and around me and under me in every direction, so it seemed a miracle that none of them struck me or my horse. I stopped a few minutes behind a large Dutch barn and while there I saw a dead officer lying with his pockets turned out. There were two papers lying on the ground close by him, one of them a furlough which was to have commenced two days before the battle and which was granted to allow him to go home and get married, and the other was a letter from his bride-to-be, expressing her happiness on the approaching event. The man was from New York, seemed to be about twenty-five years old and was a tall, well-made blonde. He had on a solid steel waistcoat, but this had not protected him, as his left arm had been torn from the socket, and he had bled to death. Confederate Lieutenant John Cabell Early

Sample Script 3: The signal gun fired and then from the throats of over two hundred cannon such a storm of shot and shells were sent forth as no battlefield in America ever witnessed before. The Federals were not taken by surprise, for in a few seconds their solid shot were tearing up the ground around us and their shells bursting in our very faces. I have heard and witnessed heavy cannonading, but never in my life had I seen or heard anything to equal this. Some enthusiasts back in the Commissary Department may speak of it as grand and sublime, but unless grandeur and sublimity consist in whatever is terrible and horrible, it was wanting in both of these qualities. Captain John James, 11th Virginia Infantry

Poet
Coaching tips: We are less restrictive on this role. We are looking for a variety of approaches. We need something with a really strong sad emotional impact without being over dramatic. Please record several different approaches to the lyrics.

Sample Poem 1:
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo.
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.

On fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread,
And glory guards with solemn round,
The bivouac of the dead.

Sample Poem 2:
Let the knapsack be my pillow
And my mantle be the sky;
Hasten comrades, to the battle,
I will like a soldier die

Soon with angels I'll be marching,
With bright laurels on my brow,
I have for my country fallen,
Who will care for mother now?

Sample Poem 3:
On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,
Far I hear the distant drummer
Drumming like a voice in dreams.

Far and near and low and louder
On the roads of earth go by,
Dear to friends and food for powder,
Soldiers marching, all to die

Sample Poem 4:
Your own proud land's heroic soil
Must be your fitter grave
She claims from war his richest spoil
The ashes of the brave

Tour Director
Coaching Tips: We are looking for the following voice qualities: clear, articulate, warm, friendly.

Sample Script 1: You should now be parked in the Visitor Center parking lot. This tour is designed to follow the official park auto tour signs that are posted throughout the park. The signs are easily recognized by the white star on the blue and gray background, as seen in your field guide book. On a few occasions we will deviate from the park tour signs momentarily, so please pay close attention to the directions and consult the driving map in your field guide book prior to departing for each destination.

Sample Script 2: You may now proceed to auto tour stop number 3, Oak Ridge. You will notice an observation tower as you approach the next stop. Park at the base of the tower. Also, please be very careful when crossing Oak Street, making sure to look in both directions for oncoming traffic. For now, please stop the audio tour and start it again when you are safely parked at the next stop

Sample Script 3: We will not be stopping at auto tour stop number 11. Instead, we will proceed to the statue of Father Corby. The statue is located on the park auto tour rout between stops 11 and 12. When you get to the end of this road, you will turn left onto Hancock Avenue heading towards auto tour stop number 12. After turning onto Hancock Avenue keep an eye out for the first statue on your right hand side. Father Corby is easy to recognize standing on a boulder with his right hand stretched to the sky. Turn off the audio tour for now and start it again when you have reached Father Corby's statue.