Get a Personalized Video From a Voice Actor

To get a personalized video from a voice actor, find the Brillay link in their bio, choose their Personalized Video or Custom Work offer depending on whether you want an unscripted message or a scripted character line, describe what you want, and pay upfront. The creator records and delivers it privately within their stated turnaround. Personalized Videos let a follower pay upfront for one personalized video for themselves or someone they care about: you set the price and the delivery time, then record it on your schedule.

Brillay's Pricing page states that a follower pays only the displayed price, and that Brillay's platform fee (8% when a follower pays for work, 5% on tips and goals) plus payment-processing fees are deducted from the creator's earnings (Brillay Pricing).

Voice actors get a version of the same request constantly: "Can you say this in your character voice for my friend's birthday?" or "Record my group chat's intro line in [character]'s voice." Answering those one at a time in DMs isn't sustainable once a following grows, and an Instagram or TikTok message has no built-in way to collect payment. One bio link that carries every offer: followers pay you as guests by card, at prices you set, whatever format the request takes.

Paid personalized video is an established format with published rules, not a novelty. Cameo's Terms of Service states that "the Talent User has up to seven days or longer (at our sole discretion) to fulfill or decline your request" (Cameo Terms of Service). Brillay applies the same record-and-deliver pattern to a creator's own bio link instead of a marketplace, with Personalized Videos and custom request delivery capped at up to 5 days in the product (Brillay How It Works). Followers commissioning a tabletop group video from a Dungeon Master order through the identical flow. The video request lives in your own bio link, right where the follower already found you.

At a glance — personalized video offers from a voice actor on Brillay

Every offer type, media format, and the 5-day delivery cap in that table is documented on Brillay's own product pages (Brillay How It Works and Brillay Pricing).

What kind of video can a voice actor actually send?

A voice actor on Brillay can send a personalized recording two ways: an unscripted Personalized Video in their own words, or a custom request that performs a script you supply. Personalized Videos are delivered as one video; Custom Work can deliver audio, video, other files, or a link. In both cases, the creator sets the price and delivery time.

Brillay's How It Works page documents that delivery on Personalized Videos and Custom Work is capped at up to 5 days, with the creator free to set anything shorter. Both are recorded deliverables: no live call, no scheduling.

Audio only, with no picture, is a reasonable thing to ask a voice actor for, and it is often the format they deliver fastest. A performer whose paid work is recorded narration already owns the microphone, treated room, and signal chain, so a clean MP3 is usually a smaller ask than an on-camera video — the opposite of a persona built for the camera, like a personalized video from a drag queen, where the visual performance is the point.

One thing worth naming in your request is what you intend to do with the file. Cameo's Terms of Service is explicit that "CAMEO Videos are licensed, not sold. You are buying the right (or license) to use it, not the actual CAMEO Video itself". Personal-use messages and commercial usage are different conversations across the whole category, so say up front whether the recording is going into a family group chat or onto a business voicemail line.

Should you request a Personalized Video or a custom request?

Request a Personalized Video when you want the creator improvising in their own words about an occasion, and request a custom request when you have an exact line or short script you want performed. The dividing question is who writes the words: Personalized Videos involve the creator improvising, a custom request is the creator performing your text.

Brillay's How It Works page documents that a custom request lets a follower attach a script or reference material at order time and lets the creator deliver a finished audio or video file back. For Personalized Videos, you supply the occasion, the names, and the tone. If what you want is a roasting tone rather than a character voice, see how to order a personalized roast from a comedian instead.

Paid Questions are for requests that can be answered in writing — "what game did you voice [character] in?" is a question, not a recording request. Brillay's How It Works page documents that a follower sends text only on a Paid Question and that the creator sets just the price and the reply time on that offer.

How do you ask a voice actor for a personalized video?

Followers pay upfront; the creator can decline a request they aren't able to fulfill.

Brillay orders start from a creator's own link, so a follower orders from someone whose link they already have. You do not need a Brillay account or app to order. Ordering runs in five steps:

1. Open the Brillay link in the creator's bio.
2. Pick Personalized Video (unscripted) or custom request (your own script or line).
3. Fill in the request form: recipient name, occasion, character or tone, and any script you want read.
4. Pay upfront by card, as a guest.
5. Wait for the creator's stated delivery time, then receive the file privately.

Specific and short beats vague and long in a request form. "A 15-second birthday message for my brother Sam, in [character]'s voice, mentioning he's turning 30" gives the actor something concrete; "do a funny voice for my friend" leaves too much open.

How long does a personalized video from a voice actor take?

Expect days, not minutes. Brillay caps Personalized Video and custom request delivery at up to 5 days, and each creator can publish a shorter delivery time on their own offer. Marketplace norms sit in the same range, so treat anything under 24 hours as an exception a creator chose to offer.

Cameo's Terms of Service tells followers that "the Talent User has up to seven days or longer (at our sole discretion) to fulfill or decline your request," and adds that "Talent Users may offer the option to request a CAMEO Video for fulfillment within a shorter timeframe, such as 24 hours". The talent-facing half of the same Terms of Service asks performers to fulfill a request within 48 hours while allowing up to seven days or longer, and states that an unaccepted request eventually goes unanswered in time (Cameo Terms of Service).

If a gift has a hard date, order at least a week ahead and say the date in the request form. A creator who cannot make the deadline can decline and refund rather than deliver late.

What should you include so you get the right voice or character?

A useful request names the exact character or vocal style, spells out any names that need correct pronunciation, states the recipient and the occasion, and includes the script itself if you ordered a custom request. Add a target length whenever the creator's listing does not already state one.

• The character or voice style you want, by name if the creator has multiple.
• Exact spelling and pronunciation of any names mentioned in the recording.
• The occasion or context — birthday, congratulations, a phone greeting, a group-chat drop.
• The script itself, if you're ordering a custom request rather than an unscripted Personalized Video.
• Length expectations, if the creator's listing doesn't already state one.
• The intended use — personal message, voicemail greeting, or anything commercial.

Naming the audio quality you expect is fair game with a narrator, because the industry publishes a hard spec. ACX, Amazon's audiobook production and distribution platform, requires every submitted audio file to measure between -23dB and -18dB RMS, peak no higher than -3dB, and hold a noise floor no higher than -60dB RMS (ACX audio submission requirements). A performer who already records to that ACX specification can hand you a clean MP3 without extra work.

Three request templates you can adapt, one per common order type:

Birthday Personalized Video (unscripted). "Please record a 20–30 second birthday video for my brother Sam — spelled S-A-M, rhymes with 'ham.' He turns 30 on October 4. Use your [Character Name] voice if you're comfortable with it. He's played [Game] since launch and quotes the second boss constantly, so feel free to tease him about still being stuck on that fight. Warm and joking, not roast-level."

Scripted character line (custom request). "Read exactly as written, in [Character Name]'s voice: 'You've reached Dana. She's off saving the world again. Leave your name after the tone, and try not to die.' Dana is pronounced DAY-nuh. Please deliver an MP3 plus one alternate take with a slower, drier read. It's a personal voicemail greeting, no commercial use."

Congratulations audio drop (unscripted). "A 15-second audio message congratulating my friend Priya — pronounced PREE-yuh — on passing her nursing boards. Please use your natural narration voice rather than a character voice, and mention that her study group in the chat is called 'the Night Shift.' No profanity; it's going into a family group chat."

If a name is unusual or the reference is niche, say so plainly rather than assuming the creator will guess right.

How much does a personalized video from a voice actor cost?

The individual creator sets the price for Personalized Videos and Custom Work. A follower pays only the displayed price at checkout: Brillay's Pricing page documents that the platform fee and payment-processing fees are deducted from the creator's earnings rather than added on top.

Brillay's Pricing page publishes the arithmetic directly: creator earnings = follower payment − platform fee − processing fee. The same page documents that the fee is 8% only when a follower pays for work, and 5% on tips and goals.

Brillay's own pages name the processor: payments and payouts run on Stripe, with Stripe handling creator payouts (Brillay How It Works and Brillay Pricing). Stripe's published pricing for standard US domestic online card payments is 2.9% + $0.30 per successful charge, with international cards and other payment methods priced differently (Stripe pricing). Processing sits on the creator's side of the transaction, so it never changes the number a follower sees at checkout.

Worked example using Brillay's published 8% fee on paid work such as a Personalized Video and Stripe's published US online-card rate: a follower who checks out at a $50 displayed price is charged exactly $50, Brillay's platform fee is $4.00, processing at 2.9% + $0.30 is $1.75, and roughly $44.25 reaches the creator before their own taxes.

Those four rows are arithmetic applied to hypothetical prices, not a rate card: Brillay publishes no fixed price for any offer, and Stripe prices international cards, currency conversion, and non-card methods above the standard US online-card rate.

For context on what followers pay elsewhere in the category, Cameo's Terms of Service sets a floor on optional add-ons rather than on videos: a tip on a Cameo booking "must be at least US $5.00". On Brillay, a follower choosing a Tip picks from the creator's suggested amounts, and no deliverable is owed in return.

A Brillay order is a follower-priced personal request, not a union-covered commercial booking with negotiated usage rights, reuse fees, or residuals. Production-scale voiceover work is a separate arrangement, negotiated directly or through an agent.

What if the video isn't what you asked for?

Custom Work and Personalized Videos include one delivery, and the order page opens a support conversation with the creator afterward — you can flag a missing file, ask for a correction, or request a refund on that same order thread, no new DM required. Brillay's How It Works page documents that a creator can decline a request outright and refund it rather than deliver a recording they are unwilling or unable to perform.

Brillay's Pricing page documents that refunds are supported and may reverse the payment, the transfer, and the platform fee depending on the transaction's status. The creator sets the price and delivery time, and the order includes one delivery, so describe the script, voice, pronunciation, length, and intended use before ordering. Declining is a normal outcome when a request names a character the actor does not perform.

Card-issuer routes run on their own clock. The Federal Trade Commission's consumer guidance on the Fair Credit Billing Act says a written billing-error dispute must reach the card issuer within 60 days after the first bill containing the error was sent. The underlying regulation says the same: Regulation Z, 12 CFR § 1026.13(b)(1), requires a billing-error notice to reach the creditor no later than 60 days after it transmitted the first periodic statement reflecting the alleged error (CFPB, Regulation Z § 1026.13).

Payment method matters here. A payment sent by gift card, wire, or peer-to-peer app inside a DM carries no equivalent statutory billing-error window, because the 60-day Fair Credit Billing Act right attaches to credit-card billing errors (FTC: Using Credit Cards and Disputing Charges). Checking whether the creator's listing already names the character or voice style you want, before ordering, lowers the odds of needing any of these routes.

Is it safe to pay a voice actor directly for a personalized video?

Paying through the creator's Brillay checkout keeps the transaction on a real card processor instead of a DM, gift card, or wire transfer, and you are paying the specific creator whose link you followed. Brillay's How It Works page documents that there is no directory and no browse surface, so no follower is routed to a stranger.

Impersonation is the risk worth guarding against. The Federal Trade Commission reported in June 2026 that consumers lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, the most-reported fraud category, within about $16 billion in total reported fraud losses for the year — the highest on record. Someone who messages you a payment link claiming to be a voice actor matches the shape of an imposter scam; a link you found yourself in the creator's own public bio does not. The FTC publishes general scam-spotting guidance at consumer.ftc.gov/scams.

A Brillay order is a personal creator request from someone you chose to follow.

Where do voice actors post their personalized-video link?

Voice-acting creators post their Brillay link in the bio of Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube, and sometimes pin it in a video description or a Discord server. You find a creator's Brillay link through their own bio, like any other bio link. One link that carries every offer, with nothing to moderate and no community to keep warm.

Check the YouTube channel description and the pinned comment as well as the Instagram or TikTok bio, since a voice actor's longest-form work usually lives on YouTube. A voice actor who does not currently offer personalized videos has simply not turned that offer on — a creator-side decision, not a platform limitation.

Related reading, from the creator's side: custom VO commissions for voice actors, custom voicemail greeting ideas, how voice actors make money, and selling in-character written replies as a VTuber.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about ordering a personalized video from a voice actor: no follower count is required, you can request a specific character but the creator decides, the price is creator-set, a follower pays only the displayed price, and a request outside a creator's range can be declined and refunded rather than delivered badly.

Do I need to already follow the voice actor to request a video?

Not strictly; you can request a video from any creator whose Brillay link you have, typically from their own social bio. There's no way to find a voice actor through Brillay itself.

Can I request a specific character voice?

You can ask, but the creator decides what they are able or willing to perform. Name the character clearly, and check whether the creator's listing already advertises that voice. Brillay's How It Works page documents decline-and-refund as a built-in creator control, with a small platform fee on follower-paid work.

How fast will I get the recording?

Within the creator's stated delivery time, which Brillay caps at up to 5 days for Personalized Videos and Custom Work. For comparison, Cameo's Terms of Service gives talent up to seven days or longer to fulfill or decline a request.

Does the platform fee get added to the price I pay?

No. Brillay's Pricing page states that a follower pays only the displayed price and that the platform fee (8% on paid work, 5% on tips and goals) and payment-processing fee come out of the creator's earnings, so creator earnings = follower payment − platform fee − processing fee.

Is this the same as booking a professional voiceover job?

No. A Brillay order is a follower-priced personal request delivered as a recorded file. Commercial or production-scale voiceover work is a separate arrangement, typically negotiated directly or through an agent.

What happens if the creator can't fulfill my request?

The creator can decline the request and refund you rather than deliver something they aren't able to perform. Naming a specific, advertised voice or character lowers the odds of that happening.

Does Brillay charge extra for a voice-actor request versus other offers?

Brillay's Pricing page documents an 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work and 5% on tips and goals, with no surcharge for Personalized Videos or Custom Work. Stripe's standard US online-card rate of 2.9% + $0.30 per successful charge applies on the creator's side.

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