Voice Training and Mentoring

In-person Courses and workshops:

Toby Ricketts owns and personally runs the NZ Voice Academy with courses held 4-6 times per year at Native Audio Studios, Auckland, New Zealand - one of New Zealand’s best audio post-production studios. With 5 professional working voiceover tutors all teaching different facets of the voice craft, the workshop tuition covers sound engineering to script interpretation, to character creation and development and acting skills, through to how to navigate the world of online voiceover marketplaces.

The course focuses on students getting as much time in the voice booth behind a microphone as possible, receiving direction from professional voice directors.


The cost is NZ$1300+gst (within NZ) and all food, materials, tutoring and studio time is included. Plus you walk away with a recorded 2 demo reel of your work on the course.

Online Training

One to One mentoring:

I can connect via Zoom, Skype or Meet for one-hour long training sessions, which can be about the craft of voiceover, the technology skills in voice over, or the business side of VO.
These sessions are US$250 p/h - BOOK HERE

Gravy for the Brain - Oceania

For those looking for the first step into voiceover, on ongoing improvement and support as a working professional VO - Gravy for the brain Oceania is a dedicated voiceover career platform, incorporating 19 eLearning courses, weekly live webinars & live zoom script readthroughs, social events and mentoring.

It is the complete Voiceover career platform, and is the best place to discover more about the voice industry from your own home!