Voice Over Events that include voice over conferences or online/social media VO events as well. Connect and join in the conversation, add your voice now!
This includes the very popular WoVo Rates Roundtable.
. 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...
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...
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...
Now...do you remember what you got paid for it? I do: $25...and I was on cloud nine! Would l do that same job today for that rate? No way. Then would I have gotten the experience if I HADN'T TAKEN the $25? Probably not. This is ever the predicament of the creative freelancer (voice-actors...
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...
The premier voice-over conference for voice actors in Britain happens this month. It's called VOX.The organizers have been in touch about spreading the word, and I promised them to post the Q & A they participated in when I had questions about the event. You can find that below. Also here...
When the big national TV spots are not hittin' like they should...or even as a VO career mainstay; eLearning projects pay the bills.People don't talk about it all that much, but eLearning -- or Elearning, E-Learning (whatever) -- often constitutes steady work, with dependable clients, at decent...
how to categorize VO demos…. This was one of the most challenging ideas to come out of the World Voices (WOVO) conversation … how to categorize VO demos…or how to describe that. Genre’s? Specialties?
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