AudioFile magazine has named the three winners of its annual Golden Voice awards, which honor voice actors who have made significant contributions to audiobook publishing. The recipients are Vikas Adam, Kimberly Farr, and Hillary Huber.
The Golden Voice awards are announced each June, which is Audiobook Month. Interviews with the 2025 Golden Voices will be available in the June/July 2025 print and digital issues of the magazine and on the AudioFile website, and will air on the magazine's Behind the Mic podcast.
“The Golden Voice class of 2025 will delight ears because, of course, an audiobook by a Golden Voice narrator assures exceptional listening,” said AudioFile founder Robin Whitten in a statement. “Our three 2025 Golden Voice narrators have excellent performance skills, are skillfully attuned to their authors, and set the highest narration standard in diverse genres and styles. AudioFile is thrilled to celebrate Vikas, Kimberly, Hillary, and all 53 Golden Voices in June.”
Adam has recorded more than 575 genre-hopping audiobooks. He is also on faculty at the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, where he teaches acting, voice, and character creation. Other voiceover credits include regular contribution for New York Times Audio and Apple News. He has won the Audie Award (and is a 16-time nominee), a Voice-Arts Award, and 27 AudioFile Earphones Awards, among other honors. He is an inaugural inductee into the Audible Narrator Hall of Fame.
Farr has recorded more than 400 titles, including three collections of Alice Munro short stories, novels by Elizabeth Strout, Margaret Atwood, Nora Roberts, and nonfiction by Mary Oliver, Joan Didion, and Sylvia Plath. She has won multiple Earphones Awards, and her narrations have been named as AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of the Year. She has appeared on Broadway and off-Broadway at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Roundabout Theatre, Playwright’s Horizons, and the American Place.
Huber is celebrating her 20th year in audiobooks. She has recorded more than 800 titles and has won multiple SOVA, Earphones, AudioFile Best of, and Audie finalist awards.
