Charles G.

Let's get this out of the way: if you're shopping for a $10-per-thousand-words voiceover, I am not your guy, and we can save each other a very awkward conversation. Still here? Great. Let's talk about why. I bring a genuinely weird (in the best way) combination to AI voice cloning projects: years as a professional announcer and voice actor across broadcast, commercial, and digital formats — plus a past life as an ESL teacher, which gave me an almost obsessive, conscious relationship with the English language. Phonemes, stress patterns, rhythm, the tiny mechanics of clear, natural speech — I don't just *speak* well, I know *why* it sounds the way it does. When you're training a voice model, that awareness matters. I record with it built in, so your dataset gets phonetic richness on purpose, not by accident. My mileage covers technical, healthcare, government, business, educational, and creative work. I like strange words. I pronounce them correctly on the first take, which your editor will appreciate. I'm also a published author and professional scriptwriter, which occasionally comes in handy — and when it doesn't, I have zero problem staying in my lane. Your script, your call. Range? Covered. Authoritative and serious, warm and conversational, and everything between — and as a trained actor, I can hit whatever tone, emotion, or energy you're after. What you *won't* get: filler words, wandering pace, or the tonal drift that quietly poisons training data. Clean, consistent takes. Every time. I'm also a sound engineer, so I don't just perform the audio — I respect it. I built a professionally treated recording studio in my home, running a Neumann U87 through a Shure MVX2U USB-C interface into Adobe Audition. When I'm traveling to film for one of our four YouTube channels, I carry a portable rig with a Sennheiser MKH416 boom mic for sound isolation. Fun fact: I've recorded countless flawless satellite radio station IDs from a cruise ship closet and a Ford F-150 in a Panera parking lot. Nobody has ever been able to tell. That's not luck — that's knowing what I'm doing. So if you're building an AI voice model and want a foundation that's phonetically rich, technically clean, and delivered by someone who actually understands what makes voice data *useful* — congratulations, your search is over. I'm not cheap. I'm worth it.