ElevenLabs
From $5/monthbilled yearly; $6 monthly; free plan is non-commercial
- Strength: Multilingual AI voiceover with many voices to choose from.
- Trade-off: The free plan can't be used commercially and needs attribution.
Job guide
Voiceover & audio
What buyers wantVideos, courses and podcasts need narration, dubbing into other languages, or cleaned-up audio with show notes.
Four numbersLast 7 days · updated hourly · last update 10-04 11:04 (Beijing time)
- Job posts, last 7 days
- 55posts
- Overseas 42 · China 13
- Median budget
- $250
- USD fixed-price · 9 posts, last 4 weeks
- Median bids
- 14bids
- Per post · 35 posts with bid counts
- How much AI can do
- AI can only assist
- First take, rechecked Oct 15
Where AI fits: AI can voice, dub and clean up audio, but buyers who pay for voiceover often ask for a real human voice. AI voices only fit jobs that say they accept them.
Market
Market for this job
3 sub-categories combined; a post that fits several counts once
Trend
Job posts per week (weeks start Monday, Beijing time), both markets
| Week | Total | Overseas | China | Days with data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| week of 2026-09-21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| week of 2026-09-28 | 55 | 42 | 13 | 7 |
- Last full week
- 55posts · 09-28 to 10-04
Job posts per week, Monday to Sunday (Beijing time), both markets. Lighter bars are partial weeks (this week so far, or weeks with days missing). Hover a bar for the split by market.
Sub-categories
By job posts in the last 7 days. Category pages are in Chinese for now.
Budgets
median $250
- Hourly (USD)
- $25/hourmedian · 3 posts
- Other currencies (not converted)
- 23 postsINR 16 · GBP 4 · AUD 3
- Listing prices (Etsy / eBay services)
- $32median · 24 listings, last 30 days
Budgets are what the posts state: USD uses the upper end of fixed-price budgets (Freelancer uses brackets, so percentiles often land on $30, $250 or $750); CNY uses the stated budget. Neither is the final deal price. Last 4 weeks of posts; fewer than 3 posts means no percentiles; other currencies are counted, not converted.
China vs overseas
| Metric | Overseas76% of last 7 days | China24% of last 7 days |
|---|---|---|
| Job posts, last 7 days | 42 posts | 13 posts |
| Job posts, since 09-27 | 43 posts | 13 posts |
| Median budget | $250USD · 9 posts | n/afewer than 3 posts with a budget in 4 weeks |
| Median bids per post | 1435 posts with bid counts | n/aonly Freelancer shows bid counts |
| New listings, last 7 days | 4 postsSince 09-27: 4 | 0 postsSince 09-27: 0 |
| Median listing price | $3224 Etsy / eBay service listings | n/anone in 30 days |
| Posts that mention AI | positive 36% · negative 2%44 posts, last 4 weeks | positive 0% · negative 0%13 posts, last 4 weeks |
Positive = the buyer wants AI output, names an AI tool or accepts AI; negative = says no AI (posts that say both count as negative). Job posts only. Listings = service listings first seen that day (Etsy / eBay service listings only); freelancers who sell privately don't show up here.
Tools
Tools you need
Three levels: get the essentials first, add the next level as work grows, use the optional ones when a client asks
Essentials
Enough to start taking work
Descript
From $16/monthbilled yearly; $24 monthly; free plan has a watermark
- Strength: Edit podcasts and voice recordings by editing the transcript.
- Trade-off: The free plan is 60 minutes a month.
Level up
Add when you have more work
Murf
From $19/monthCreator, billed yearly; monthly price not verified; free plan doesn't allow downloads
- Strength: Comes with a voiceover editor; suits course material and explainer narration.
- Trade-off: The free plan doesn't allow downloads; we haven't verified the monthly price.
Krisp
From $8/monthbilled yearly; $16 monthly; 7-day trial only
- Strength: Noise removal for recordings and calls.
- Trade-off: Only a 7-day trial.
Optional
Use when a client asks
HeyGen
From $24/monthbilled yearly; $29 monthly; free plan has a watermark
- Strength: AI avatar presenters — the voice and the video come out together.
- Trade-off: The free plan adds a watermark.
Synthesia
From $18/monthbilled yearly; $29 monthly; free plan has a watermark
- Strength: AI avatar explainer videos for corporate training.
- Trade-off: The free plan adds a watermark; monthly billing is $29.
Prices and partner terms come from each vendor's official pricing pages (check dates on each card) and change over time. Prices may vary by region, and tax may be added at checkout; the official page is always the final word. “Price not verified” means we haven't checked the pricing page yet. Links go through our redirect page: “Affiliate” means we may earn a commission; “Has an affiliate program” means we don't have a link yet.
Where to find work
Where to find this work
Posts for this job we collected in the last 28 days: Freelancer 35, Zhubajie (猪八戒网) 10, X 4, Himalayas 4, RedNote (小红书) 3, Reddit 2. We only count platforms we collect from; a missing platform doesn't mean there is no demand there.
| Name | What it is | Fees | Best for | Go |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiverr | Package your service as fixed-price gigs; buyers order directly | 20%sellers keep 80%; withdraw 14 days after completion | Can package a service | Go → |
| Upwork | One of the largest general freelance marketplaces — send proposals for fixed-price or hourly work | 0%–15%varies by contract, shown when you send a proposal | Good English · longer projects | Go → |
| Freelancer | Bid on projects with public budget ranges; many of the job posts we track come from here; 35 of these posts here in the last 28 days | 10% or $5, whichever is higherhourly projects 10% per payment | Good for first jobs | Go → |
Platform fees, payouts and getting your first order: see Platforms (in Chinese)
Get started
Get started
Four general steps: pick tools → make samples → list a service or bid → let AI draft, check by hand
Pick your tools
One AI voice tool plus one audio editor. Only clone your own voice, or a voice whose owner has given you written permission.
Make a few demos
Record the same script in a few different languages as demos, and label them as AI voices in your portfolio.
List a service or bid
Only take jobs that say they accept AI voices, or put “AI voiceover” in your package title. Price by the minute.
Let AI draft, check by hand
Listen to the whole recording before delivery and fix every mispronounced word, wrong pause and spot that is out of sync with the picture. Before commercial use, confirm what the voice license covers.
Updated 2026-10-04 11:04 (Beijing time) · data up to 10:48 · demand numbers aggregate public job posts, not completed deals; tool prices and partner terms follow the official pages.