Frequently asked questions

Email the script to hey@ib.actor, with the deadline and where the recording will be used. The contact form is fine for questions, but it can’t take files. You get a fixed quote, and work starts once it’s approved in writing. How to prepare a script

• Send the final version, approved by everyone who needs to approve it, legal included.
• Proofread it. Spelling and punctuation shape the read.
• Read it aloud against the clock. A 30-second spot holds about 70 to 80 English words, and Croatian runs longer, so a script translated from English often needs cutting.
• Add a pronunciation guide for names, brands, acronyms and foreign words: write them as they’re said, or attach a short recording.
• Say how it should sound: the tone, the pace, a reference you like, and the exact length if it has to fit picture.
• If it goes under music or picture, send the music or the video.
• Send it as a Word document, a PDF or a Google Docs link, with lines or paragraphs numbered if it’s long.
• For changes after recording, mark the lines in the original script, include the sentence before and after, and add the time code if there’s video.

Yes. Paste up to 50 words of the script into the contact form, or email them, with the deadline and usage, for a free audition: one unedited take, as an MP3 with a short spoken slate. One per project, for evaluation only.

Not yet. Until there are, the studio page has a raw take in each language, and a free audition lets you hear the voice on your own script.

Within one business day. I work weekdays, 8 AM–5 PM Zagreb time, and evenings and weekends by arrangement.

Yes. Everything runs remotely: scripts and files by email or download link, live sessions online. The quote follows your market’s rates, and you can pay in EUR, USD or GBP.

For most jobs, the approved quote and the Terms of Service are the contract. If you’d like a signed agreement, I’ll send a plain one-page one, and I’ll sign your NDA or send mine, in English or Croatian. Scripts and unreleased material stay confidential either way. Any agreement can carry an AI rider that rules out voice cloning and AI training.

No. I’m a non-union voice actor based in Velika Gorica, Croatia.

Croatian (native) and English (US accent).

Yes, from English to Croatian and back, quoted separately. An English script can be adapted into natural Croatian and recorded, or your own translation recorded as written. Croatian clients can also get the English version in the same voice.

Hate, get-rich schemes, affair sites, crime and fraud in non-fiction work, which includes ads voiced in character. Characters in fiction are fine. Voice cloning and AI training are never allowed.

Short scripts are delivered within one or two business days of an approved quote and the final script. Longer or synced work (localization, audio description, dubbing, full courses) gets its date in the quote. Same-day, evening or weekend delivery carries a rush fee.

Yes, booked by the hour, over Zoom, Teams, Meet or Discord. If you need to hear studio-quality audio as it’s recorded, Cleanfeed, SessionLinkPRO or ipDTL can be added on request. Sessions run in working hours, and evenings and weekends by arrangement.

Processed audio, cleaned up and edited, and the raw takes too if you ask. If you don’t name a format, it’s a 48 kHz, 24-bit mono WAV with peaks below -3 dBTP. If you need a loudness target, such as -23 LUFS for European broadcast, put it in the brief (what these mean). FLAC and MP3 are available too, at 44.1 or 48 kHz, and WAV also comes as 16-bit or 32-bit float. Files are sent via Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer, (S)FTP, S3 or email. Delivery formats and specs

As your spec says. Without one, a short script comes as one file, and longer scripts and games are split by line or section and named like Client_Project_Role_001_A.wav: the line number in the script, then a letter for each alternate take.

Yes, within limits. Mistakes in the recording are always fixed for free. Two rounds of performance retakes in the same direction and script changes of up to 50 words in total are included too. Larger changes, or new direction after you’ve approved the recording, are billed at the rates in the quote. I decide in good faith which is which, and tell you before anything is charged.

Yes. Project files are kept for three years after delivery, so files can be sent again and new or changed lines recorded later in the same booth (pick-ups). New lines get a quote; fixes for my mistakes stay free.

It depends on the length, the usage (where it runs, for how long, and any exclusivity), the deadline and whether the session is directed live. Recording, cleanup, editing and delivery in your format are always included. Every project gets a fixed quote before anything is recorded. How rates work

All work is contracted and invoiced by Flyntech, vl. Ivan Benko. Invoices are issued in Croatian, with an English version on request, in EUR, USD or GBP as agreed per project. Invoices are due within 14 days, and you can pay by bank or wire transfer, Wise Business, Revolut Pro or card, and PayPal on request. A new client or a large project may be asked for part of the price in advance.

No. Flyntech, vl. Ivan Benko is outside the Croatian VAT system. Business clients in other EU countries account for any VAT in their own country under the reverse charge.

Yes. Before recording starts, an approved job can be canceled free of charge, except within 24 hours of an agreed recording time or rush delivery, when half the price is billed. Once recording has started, you pay for the work done. A live session canceled or moved less than 24 hours ahead is billed at half of the booked time. Consumers can also withdraw within 14 days, and these fees then don’t apply.

A license lets you use the recording for what was agreed: the media, the territory and the time, such as a year of radio in Croatia. A buyout lets you use it anywhere, in any medium, with no end date. It costs more, but it can work out cheaper for something that runs for years. Voice cloning and AI training are excluded either way.

Once it’s paid in full, you can use it for the media, territories, languages and term agreed in writing. If the quote doesn’t list them, that’s online and internal use, worldwide, for one year. You can cut it, mix it with music and effects and fit it to picture, and you don’t have to credit the voice. Reselling it, editing it to say something that wasn’t recorded, cloning the voice or using it to train AI isn’t allowed. Usage rights