Audiobook Narrators! 2 tools to help you avoid being scammed on ACX 

Just wanted to let folks know, if you are on a budget, the $5/month option is entirely workable, so don’t shy away. It’s a great service!

Hi, Angela! I am an aspiring audiobook narrator and just found your channel. I’ve only watched a little bit, so far, but I can tell it’s going to be super instructive. Looking forward to binge-ing. Thank you!

Thank you, Angela. More very useful information. So far I’ve been lucky and haven’t been scammed on ACX. Audiobook Scout is going to come in handy.

God, it’s good to see you again. I drifted off into learning copywriting, but getting serious with voiceover, as I’ve been in this world in the background for years. I fell asleep to your demo reel on your website. In my opinion, you thrive in meditation and corporate narration.

Hi miss Angela. This is awesome. I just found you about a month ago. I am sooo excited to get started. You are sooo amazing. Thank you sooo much for your information and your time. 🌟🌟🌟

Thanks Angela, I thought it had just happened to me .... great information!

Hi Angela, you have a great voice and very informative video. I am looking for a narrator for my historical fiction book (100k words). The issue is I need a female and a male readers. 2/3 of the book is female narrated and the last third is male narrated.

I was wondering if I was doing something wrong or this was a real issue, I'm glad you addressed it,

Love this video! Thank you bc I felt like I was plateauing with learning more and this definitely helps!

I'm working on my second audiobook narration so this sounds like a great tool. Thanks for sharing!

Wow thanks Angela for the information!! Much appreciated.

Thank you! I've never narrated, but would love to try.

Thanks for sharing. You do a fantastic job! Please keep going - you are a hugh help.

Thanks for the great information. I just created a profile in ACX. What is a realstic budget to start recording? Can you talk about start up cost for software and equipment? Looking forward to more great videos. Thanks in advance for your help!

This was extremely helpful. Thanks Angela.

Thanks for the info Angela!

Thank you!

Is this site for books that are available on any audiobook site?

Great content

What does it mean if there is a red triangle with an exclamation mark next to the word count?

Can you please do a video explaining/showing how to do a live recorded session? Like literally how you do it. Meaning you book a gig, its a live session via Zoom. I have a laptop and my phone. I normally read the script off my phone and work my daw on my laptop. If its a live session over Zoom should I have the zoom session opened on my laptop and my daw opened on my laptop? Or just have my camera on but put my daw full screen so i can stop and make edits as the client directs? What about headphones? How do you hear the client? Do you have one ear on and one off? Are you editing in real time? If not, what are you doing to remember what takes the client likes? I use Audition. Please explain how this process works technically, preferably sloooowly and then please explain how a VO is to manage all these duties while remaining professional? I turned down a job bc it was a live session bc i dont know how to technically handle it and be the talent. Please help😊

This is really helpful. Also, I have a question, I check out your website and I saw the M-Track Duo audio interface, and I don't know if it supports 24bit when I bought and plug it into my Adobe Audition or not?

how do I get started? I never even realized I could do this!

Thank you for the information. I hope you will cover this in a future video, but with 35 hours towards an audiobook with a $500 return the rate is about $14.30 per hour. Is this common and are straight royalties best?

You can use the trial more than once? O_O I didn't know that.

I find myself wondering what the criteria are for detecting potential scammers... These tools are black-box approaches that simply return a flag, but it still seems like anyone could just post as if they're the author and sneak past the filters. Do you have any tips/resources for researching manually? What to watch out for, etc.

i just completed a book and its been 2 days of no response from the author... in the beginning the messages were pretty quick and it has halted towards the end and completion of the book. Im hoping I did not waste my time. this is so unfair if this person ripped me off. :(

OK, a question about fiction narrations. Is it better to do all the characters in one hit. For instance do all the lines for the talking horse, then all the lines for the taking dog etc. Then record the rest of the book and when a character line appears insert that into your narration track. I imagine in a good DAW that this is possible. p.s ACX is of no use to me as people outside of the US or Ireland [?] don't get to be narrators. Your loss Amazon; I wil.l fin d another site.

What is your opinion on the 999$ Isovox 2? Is it worth the price tag for sound proofing when living in an apartment? Just wondering if you know anyone using it as RU-vid demos can often be advertisements. Thanks.

Hi Angela 😊 I’ve been doing my diligent research about ACX. Do VO narrators typically use a different name for privacy. If so do you know how I change that in the system?

I went to your website to look at your courses but on the workshop page none of the buttons do anything

Hello Angela. If the person that contacted me to narrate the book differs from the author, would that raise a "red flag" as possible scam? Or is this a common practice?

Hi Angela. I want to know if you have to do the editing yourself?

Scammers on ACX? That risk seems glossed over. How scammers profit I don't know.

$500 for 30 hours of work seems a bit unfair. How are people earning a living doing this?

Hi angela im from pakistan can i do it?

Hello Angela, Thank you for all the informative videos on audio book narrating. I am a newbie to audio book narrating and got a project. The reason I got the project is because I discovered a small mistake in the script and the author (hope it is?) said he would like me to audition because of all the people I was the only one to mention this error. Anyway, the author is very communicative through ACX, but now thinking of scammers, makes me doubt anyone now. When you say reachout to the author, did you mean outside of ACX? If so how do I find the/ir contact information? (I am not able to find any contact information outside of ACX). On Google books did see the author associated with this title I am narrating for and some other books written by the author. If it were not for these scam enlightening videos, I would not doubt the person I am corresponding to as author, but scammers are very smart, but the person could be legit too in my case. I noticed the same small font bold error in the sneak-peak of the book in Amazon that I noticed in the manuscript, and also noticed the error in the audition script still in the manuscript. I also found another paragraph that did not make sense to me and when I asked the author through ACX, he told me what the actual paragraph should be. This kind of makes me feel he may be legit, but I don't know. Anyway, I have asked the author to update the manuscript with the corrections and let me see what he does. Sorry for the long write-up, but do you have any feeling on whether I am working with a scammer based on what I wrote? Also, what happens if i am working with a scammer, if ACX can pay the scammer money (because of which they are scamming), then doesn't the narrator also get paid when the scammer gets paid? I am talking of Royalty Share setup. Pardon my ignorance, but trying to understand this scam thing better? Thank you.