National TV spot, 30 seconds
We booked Rowan off a two-line audition and he nailed the read in three takes. The client didn't ask for a single pickup.
Dana OkaforSenior producer, Brightwater Audio
On air
Halden Motors, :30 radioTake 3
Same road. Same lights.Except tonight,the car does the remembering for you.
smile on “tonight”, land soft
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Each demo runs under a minute and is cut from real-world-style spots. Download any of them as an MP3 for your casting deck.
Commercial
00:23
For retail, auto, finance and tech spots that need a warm sell.
It's the drive home you've done a thousand times. Same road, same lights. Except tonight, the car does the remembering for you. It knows the turn you always take a little late. It warms the cabin before you've found your keys. And when traffic stacks up on Bridge Street, it's already found another way. The new Halden Tour. Built for the miles you don't think about. Book a test drive at your local Halden dealer.
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Narration
00:27
For documentaries, brand films and audiobook samples.
In the spring of 1931, the river rose four feet in a single night. By morning, the town that had built itself on its banks had a choice to make: move, or stay and learn to live with the water. Most families stayed. They raised their houses on timber stilts, moved the school up the hill, and painted a line on the church wall to mark how high the river had come. That line is still there. Nobody in town has ever painted over it.
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E-learning
00:29
For compliance, onboarding and product training.
Before you open a support ticket, take thirty seconds to check three things. Is the customer's account active? Is the issue already on the known-problems list? Can you reproduce it yourself? If the answer to all three is yes, you're ready for step two. In step two, you write the ticket. Keep the title short and specific, list the steps you took to reproduce the issue, and attach a screenshot. A clear ticket gets fixed faster, and it saves the engineering team a round of questions.
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Explainer
00:24
For SaaS, healthcare and fintech, read like a conversation.
Every month, your team loses hours chasing receipts. This app reads them for you, matches each one to the right card and flags the ones that don't add up. So month-end takes an afternoon, not a week. Snap a photo, forward an email, or let it pull straight from your inbox. Your finance lead gets one clean report, and everyone else gets their Friday back. Try it free for thirty days. No setup call, no credit card.
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Phone and IVR
00:22
For phone menus, on-hold messages and voice prompts that sound human.
Thanks for calling Bramblewell Health. To book or change an appointment, press one. For prescriptions, press two. For billing questions, press three. Or stay on the line and a real person will pick up. Our clinics are open Monday to Friday, eight till six, and Saturday mornings from nine. If this is a medical emergency, please hang up and call your local emergency number.
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I spent eight years reading news and ads on local radio before going freelance. Now I voice the ads, documentaries and training that need a listener to stay until the end.
Casting sheet
Rowan Hale
Voice
Male, warm baritone
Sounds
30 to 45
Accent
Neutral American, light British on request
Best at
Conversational ads
Documentary
E-learning
Brand film
Not for
Cartoon characters, hard-sell announcer
National TV spot, 30 seconds
Regional radio, 60 seconds
E-learning, 42 modules
In-flight safety video
Six 15-second social cuts
Launch trailer narration
Patient education narration
Two-minute brand film
Plus a few hundred radio, online and training jobs since 2021 that I'm not allowed to name.
Source-Connect ready, or direct me live on Zoom
The studio
48 kHz / 24-bit
Book a live session or send the script and walk away. The signal path is the same either way.
- Mic
Neumann TLM 103 in a treated 4 × 6 ft booth
- Chain
Apollo Twin X with a noise floor below −60 dBFS
- Live
Source-Connect, ipDTL or Zoom so you can direct every take
- Delivery
48 kHz / 24-bit WAV the same day for scripts under 300 words
01
00:00
Send the script
Paste the script into the form or share a link to it. Tell me the usage, the runtime and your deadline, and you'll get a fixed quote within two business hours.
02
00:15
Custom read or audition
Not sure I'm right for it? I'll record a free 30-second sample from your script so you can hear it before you book.
03
00:30
Record
Direct the session live over Source-Connect or Zoom, or let me self-direct and send two takes of each line.
04
00:45
Delivery and pickups
Edited, labeled files land in your inbox. One round of pickups for performance changes is included.
Six of the people who hire me most. Ask and I'll put you in touch with any of them.
Every job is priced on how and where the audio is used, not just length. These are the floors. Your fixed quote comes within two hours.
E-learning
$300
up to 10 finished minutes, then $20 a minute
Named and leveled files for every module, ready for your authoring tool.
Explainer and corporate
$350
up to 2 minutes, web and internal use
Product videos, onboarding, investor decks and all-hands films.
Online and social ad
$400
per spot, one year of paid online use
Cut-downs from the same session are included.
Radio and TV
$750
per spot, regional, 13 weeks
National and multi-market runs are quoted on usage.
All rates in USD, non-union. Every job includes edited WAV files and one round of pickups.
Get a fixed quote
Something else? Email rowan@rowanhale.com and I'll reply within two business hours.
Booking Mon to Fri, 9 to 6 ET
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