. 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...
...and World-Voices Organization has two new board members! They are familiar to most of you: Liz de Nesnera Anthony Gettig Both were approved by an overwhelming majority in a vote of the membership, and were nominated in the first place for a number of reasons, chief among...
We enter a world of arcane language, conflicting buyouts, and digital media streams this month on our Rates Roundtable. "Usage" was something agents handled for their talent...buffering them from predatory and unscrupulous clients -- and they still do that (should). But independent freelance...
April 2012. Four-and-a-half years ago WoVO was born. Today more than 800 voice actors are members of this organization, and we couldn't be more proud of the progress we've made. Much of the last four years has been taken with laying groundwork. Creating by-laws, an infrastructure, best...
World-Voices Organization's popular "Rates Roundtable" series kicked off it's second year of monthly episodes yesterday...and it was a zinger! Our topic surrounded the paradox of newcomers entering the business, seeking experience AND reasonable rates, and not often being able to find both. The...
Seasoned VO pros have just as much responsibility to protect our profession as do the newcomers.
Here’s why.
At first, we weren't sure it would take hold...now, we think maybe it's among the best of our outreach efforts.World-Voices Organization launched the first R.A.D.A.R. Rates Roundtable in July of 2015. We've been trying to keep the pace of producing one hour-long panel discussion each month. In...
One year ago this month, WoVO began sponsoring a series of "R.A.D.A.R. Rates Roundtables". RADAR stands for Rates And Digital Ad Reform...a fancy acryonym warning us to be aware of compsation challenges/changes in the marketplace, especially as it concerns new streams of digital media.Anne...
Sometimes, the things we want to achieve at WoVO seem to move at a glacial pace. Our expedited plans often get waylaid because we'd rather do things well than do them fast (once in a while -- if we're lucky -- we get to do them well AND fast).We also have to keep reminding ourselves and others...
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