[1][2] The founding of Society of Voice Arts and Sciences can be traced to the 2005 publication of Secrets of Voice-over Success by Joan Baker.

This led Baker and her husband and fellow industry producer, Rudy Gaskins, to recognize the need for more professional, educational, and community support for voice actors.

The Voice Arts Awards were added as an event to conclude the Expo weekend in 2013, the same year as SOVAS was formally established.

In 2020, the organization lent public support to a spate of white voice actors relinquishing their roles as non-white characters as a form of anti-racist solidarity.

[10] The SOVAS International Ambassadors program recognizes influential voice-over artists around the world who work to galvanize the global voice acting community.

Submissions, nominations, and winners are international in scope, with specific categories for voice-over in English-speaking African nations, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, and English.

[5] Some nominees and winners in these juried categories include Angela Bassett, Blue Ivy Carter, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Barack Obama.

Voice Arts Awards career achievement honorees include James Earl Jones,[14] Jennifer Hale,[15] Ken Burns,[2] Nancy Cartwright,[2] Keith David,[2] Tara Strong,[16] Rosario Dawson,[17] William Shatner,[18] Sigourney Weaver,[17] Michael Buffer,[19] Mark Hamill,[20] Phil LaMarr,[19] Jim Cummings,[21] and Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.[20] Baker and Gaskins organized the first career expo that would eventually become known as "That's Voiceover!"