Why is so little invested in voice acting?

[zaiggs]

Though it may seem like this is the case:

voice does cost money, and unfortunately it costs a lot because actors like to think its equivalent to movie acting.

Try this:

just get five hundred people off the streets and throw them into a recording studio and give em $20 each to record 20 or so lines for an hour each.

Pull a random 500 people off the street to do voice acting and I can guarantee less than half (and that's being generous) will sound any good if you gave them only an hour to record lines. Voice actors get paid what they are paid because they are in fact actors.

 

[ryo02]

five hundred people off the streets and throw them into a recording studio and give em $20 each to record 20 or so lines for an hour each.

if the series is a fairly popular one like fallout you could probably get hundreds to do that for free.