Liz Drury Voiceovers

09/08/2025

Documentary Filmmaking Techniques for Corporate Storytelling Guy Michaels is the founder of Voiceover Kickstart, a great place to get started and to progress in VoiceOver. He also writes an excellent blog for and about the VO community. Here's one of his posts for you to enjoy 😊

Explore documentary filmmaking techniques for compelling corporate storytelling. Learn from other media productions to improve your corporate videos.

08/08/2025

Documentaries are one of my favourite types of project to narrate. I always learn such a lot from the scripts.

A good documentary narrator should almost go unnoticed - the pictures are the star of the show, and the narrator should just be gently pointing things out to the viewer.

Here's little demo of me narrating a nature documentary.

If you're working on a documentary (or any other kind of project) that needs a narrator, if you send me a snippet of your script I'll record a demo for you for free so you can 'try before you buy'.

My contact details are in my profile 😊


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About Me:

🎙️I've been working as a voice over artist for over 10 years
🎙️I have a broadcast quality home studio
🎙️As well as documentaries I narrate explainer videos, e-learning courses and more
🐆 I've never been to the Savannah but it looks amazing!

07/08/2025

Calling all podcasters!

How do you start and end your show? Does it just start and end abruptly or do you have a recognisable intro and outro with music and a welcome to the show?

As a voiceover artist obviously I've created my own intro and outro for my podcast, 'Small Business Big Network', but I've also created them for other people's shows too.

I listen to quite a lot of podcasts and the ones that have a well-recorded introduction, and give you a clue as to what the content is going to be, always strike me as seeming more professional than those that just - start.

If you have a podcast but you're not confident about recording an intro or adding music, give me a shout. I have access to a library of royalty-free music and can create a really professional sounding introduction to your show, which might just bring you more listeners 😊

My contact details are in my profile so get in touch if you'd like more info about this service.


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About Me:

🎙️I'm the host of the Small Business Big Network podcast which is available on all the usual platforms
🎙️I work from a broadcast quality home studio for clients around the world
😄 One of my clients said she was 'chuffed to bits' with the podcast intro I recorded for her

06/08/2025

Did you know a professional voiceover artist could save you time, and help you make more money?
No, Karl Douglas of Beverley Travel didn't know that either, until he hired me to record some messages for his phone system. The results were surprising!
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🎤I'm a freelance VoiceOver artist based in the UK
🎤I record voiceovers for videos, training courses, telephone systems and more
🎤I work from a broadcast quality home studio for clients around the world
🎤I can save your business time and make you more money!

05/08/2025

Online learning is growing apace. I've noticed in my own business that I have been narrating more and more e-learning courses, and the range of sectors that are making use of online training is vast!

Here are some examples from my personal experience:

🩺 In the medical and healthcare sector, e-learning can be used to teach people how to use pieces of medical equipment, how to administer certain drugs, how to carry out various procedures and how to deal with different kinds of patients including those with dementia or other specific problems.

🏨 In the hotel industry e-learning can be used to train staff in hospitality and customer service.

🛎️ In the public transport sector e-learning has been used to train staff in customer service.

🍕The food sector uses e-learning to disseminate information on regulatory compliance.

🌍 Charities use e-learning to train staff and volunteers on topics such as safeguarding, and how to work with teams in other countries.

🦺 In industry e-learning is used to keep people up to date with health and safety regulations.

🖥️ Many types of business from manufacturing to retail use e-learning to teach staff how to use software and apps necessary for their work.

♻️ The renewable energy industry uses e-learning, including VR programmes, to train staff how to handle situations off-shore.

🎓 And of course the education sector uses e-learning from GCSE level right up to degree material.

The beauty of e-learning is that the learner can access it from anywhere with an internet connection at a time to suit them. They can learn at their own pace, and easily go back and re-visit anything they didn’t quite understand.

A well-written course will keep the learner engaged with a variety of content. This can be as simple as incorporating puzzles and quizzes to test the knowledge acquired, right through to immersive and gamified learning which may include the use of VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality), to really put the learner at the heart of their training.

Have you experienced online learning? How did you find it?


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About me:

🎙️I've been working as a voice over artist since 2013
🎙️Narrating e-learning is my specialty and the sector I work in most
🎙️I learn all sorts of things from my scripts from maths equations to car maintenance!
😂 I actually had to take a course I'd narrated on safeguarding for the Church of England

04/08/2025

On the Small Business Big Network this week you can hear me chatting to Charlie Hunt.

Charlie is a Fractional CFO/COO with 15+ years of experience working in and with start-ups, scale-ups, and SMEs across digital marketing, recruitment, SaaS, and eCommerce. She specialises in building scalable financial & operational frameworks that drive profitability, streamline processes, and support data-led decision-making.

Her approach goes beyond the numbers: She focuses on how financial insight connects with people, products or services, and processes to solve real-world problems and drive meaningful outcomes.

When it comes to networking she says you need to be prepared to talk about your business wherever you are - you never know who you might meet!

02/08/2025

The History of Voice Narration Guy Michaels is the founder of Voiceover Kickstart, a great place to get started and to progress in VoiceOver. He also writes an excellent blog for and about the VO community. Here's one of his posts for you to enjoy 😊

This journey through the history of voice narration reveals not just technological shifts, but a consistent thread: the unique, profound connection forged

01/08/2025

I narrate a lot of e-learning courses – its probably the genre of voiceover I work in the most and I really enjoy it. I always learn things from my scripts.

I’ve narrated courses for all sorts of industry sectors and on many different topics including hospitality, food safety, health and safety, safeguarding and more. This is a video demo about preventing the spread of infection in the workplace.

If you’re a course creator, or instructional designer, (or maybe just someone who wants to monetise their knowledge with an online course), and you need help with the narration, give me a shout.

My services include recording and editing the audio, and cutting it into individual files ready to just drop into your project.

I’m always happy to record a few lines for you as a demo so you can hear how I would sound for your course – you get to try before you buy! 😄

My contact details are in my profile. ✉️

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About me:

🎙️I’m a freelance voiceover artist who loves learning new things
🎙️As well as e-learning I also narrate corporate and explainer videos, telephone systems and more
🎙️I work from a super-quiet home studio
😂 I’ve had to take a course that I narrated! (Safeguarding for members of Parochial Church Councils)

31/07/2025

One of the genres of voice over I work in most is e-learning.

Some learning providers tell me that they voice all their own content, which is great if it's something they enjoy doing, and it's something they are good at.

But sometimes, just because they wrote the course, it doesn't necessarily follow that they are the best person to narrate it...

In the world of e-learning, the right voice can make all the difference.

A professionally trained voice over artist will bring the course to life – and give it a human dimension.

They will know how to pace the narration – not too quickly so that information is lost, and not so slowly that the learners are bored. They will also know how to emphasise key points to bring out important information with the tone of their voice – something that may be lost when just reading text on a page.

They can make complicated subjects sound easy and keep learners engaged with a friendly and conversational tone, that is maintained throughout the programme. None of that is as easy as it sounds – it takes training and practice to do well!

It can be tempting to use an AI voice to narrate e-learning, but I've had instructional designers tell me that they have tried this and the learners just weren't engaged.

And if the learners aren't engaged they they aren't learning!

If you'd like a real human voice to narrate your e-learning courses give me a shout - I'm always happy to record a little bit so you can hear how I would sound for your project. My contact details are in my profile.


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About me:

🎙️I've been working as a VoiceOver artist since 2013
🎙️The bulk of my work is in corporate and e-learning narration
🎙️I learn some really interesting things from my scripts - I know all about cleaning products, food safety and how to prevent accidents in the aviation industry!
😂 More than once I've had to actually take a course I narrated!

30/07/2025

I was delighted to receive this compliment from one of my e-learning clients.

There is so much talk about AI taking over the work of voiceover artists, especially in the field of online learning, that I was really encouraged by this lovely feedback.

I'm hoping that all my other clients feel the same and will continue to use real humans for their projects too!

I'd love to know what your experience of AI voices in learning has been - either as a creator or as a learner. Let me know!
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About Me:

🎤I'm a freelance VoiceOver artist based in the UK
🎤I record voiceovers for videos, training courses, telephone systems and more
🎤I work from a broadcast quality home studio for clients around the world
🎤I'm definitely human!

29/07/2025

At a networking meeting a while ago, attendees were asked to discuss subliminal messages in their logos. I wasn’t sure there was anything subliminal in mine (or not on purpose at least), but people were interested to hear the story behind my branding so I thought I would share it with you too…

Obviously my logo is my name, but the font is very close to the way I actually write. We were taught quite an old fashioned style of joined up script with lots of loops at my primary school, and my handwriting hasn’t changed much since then. ✒️

My tag line came about when I was doing a branding exercise and writing down things about myself. I always wear dangly earrings, and as I wrote that down I had a lightbulb moment! Easy on the ears seemed a perfect description of how I would like people to perceive my voice – and I also think I’m pretty easy to work with too (maybe that’s the subliminal message!). 👂

The little green thing hanging off the letter L is supposed to be an earring, though a lot of people mistake it for a microphone – which works just as well. 🎤

The dot above the I is in the shape of a diamond, because alongside my dangly earrings I always wear a pair of diamond studs that my husband gave me before we were married. 💠

Finally the teal green colours are shades that I wear a lot, and I think they have a calming feeling – which hopefully is like my voice (another subliminal message perhaps).

I would love to know if there is a story behind your logo too!


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About me:

🎙️I'm a freelance VoiceOver artist who is easy on the ears and easy to work with
🎙️I've been in the business since 2013
🎙️To hear examples of how I sound pop over to my website (link in my profile)
😂 My writing is nowhere near as beautiful now as when I was at Primary school!

28/07/2025

Well this is nice!

Feedspot have ranked my Small Business Big Network podcast number 2 in their Top 25 UK Small Business and SME Podcasts 😊

My podcast has been going since January 2021 and I've now recorded over 240 episodes with more in the pipeline.

If you haven't listened yet, and don't know what the podcast is about, here's a quick summary. Every week I chat to a different business owner about their career journey, their current business, and how they like to grow their network.

You can find my podcast on all the usual platforms, or head to my website and click on the podcast tab.

If you want to see the rest of the chart I'll pop a link in the comments below.

If you fancy being a sponsor of a top-rated podcast (it's just £99 to sponsor 2 episodes) get in touch 😁!