Common wisdom holds that clearing your throat is the worst thing for your vocal cords…true or false?

Is it any wonder Donald Trump is high in the polls?  No...forget party affiliations for a moment.  Let's just look at politicians as a whole for a minute.  Even in an election season, their carefully-crafted gobbledygook is an art form all it's own.No matter what...

Voice Actors swear by this rule of thumb:   Business can be as slow as molasses, until you decide to take a few days off, away from home, then clients are bugging you with big projects and tight deadlines!Maybe that's why we all stress over having a portable recording...

The neat freak inside me wants the proposed SAG/AFTRA merger to succeed.  I dislike wasteful duplication, gratuitous redundancy, and top-heavy bureaucracies. I've been told talk of a merger has been around about as long as the proposal for a high-speed train between...

No, really! There's a ton of it out on the internet, and some of it is very good, stable, feature-rich, and virus-free (think Audacity). But OhEmGeee there are SO many scams out there associated with software downloads. Still, two top sites consistently shine in...

Doncha just love that name for a company? The website I'm REALLY focusing on today is called THE VOICE BEHIND, but it comes under the umbrella of Owner and Pants Commander Evan Pedersen at Fancy Pants Gangsters. You'll find out more about where that name came from,...

Are the consequences of this pandemic good or bad? No, they just are.

One of the all-time great VO collaborations, and I’m not talking about an audition.
See how two minds = one great idea.

Here's one way to save money on costly re-do's when sending the final version of an eLearning course to your narrators:  anticipate the questions someone brand-new to the copy will have.  That means: Never Ever EVER assume your voice talent will know how to pronounce...