. Listening to our astute panel for the December WoVO Rates Roundtable talk about the realities of being part of the Spanish-speaking and bilingual marketplace, I was struck by the sameness of their challenge for all voice-actors. Target audience Client relations Interpretation Dialect Fair...
Think synthetic voices aren't a part of our reality yet? Check out Skype's new feature, providing a real-time spoken word translation from one language to another. Now, mind you...no one seems to be saying how well this works...but kudos to Microsoft for moving aggressively into this AI arena. I...
Think about how people or brands show up on your radar. Marketing wisdom says it takes 7-10 "exposures" for people to even recognize that you or your business exists. Other things that come into play: an attitude of excellence abundance of talent reputation willingness to help personal contact...
Having grown up in white-bread middle-America in the 50's, I never imagined a future for this country that accepted anything else but English. I won't mince my words: I think it weakens our country to be bi-lingual. That sounds odd coming from me. I'm the son of a Swiss Immigrant, whose native...