Voice Over Hardware, Voice Over Software and other VO Tools
...At least not if you want to hear the answer to the question I posed late last week on this blog: "SourceConnect NOW...Free?" The response to that mention of "free" was viral! Source-Connect is up to something, and EWABS is the perfect place to make a big announcement about their pricing....
No other question dominates discussions about the recent spate of ISDN-replacement technologies: How much will it cost? Kevin Leach at ipDTL has tinkered with his subscription fee a little since the first release. SoundStreak offered their service at no cost for the longest time. Now that it's...
What do you use for sending out newsletters, tracking email lists, and handling CRM? There are plenty of products that offer simple-to-full-spectrum features in this online space. And that full spectrum includes the price they charge for it. Am I wrong in thinking Constant Contact and MailChimp...
As voice-actors, we get used to being regarded as the lost stepchild of target marketing. For some reason, musicians, broadcasters, and audio engineers are pursued as viable product-purchasers, but not voice over talent. What do they think?....we make our own microphones, pre-amps, and DAWs? That...
My dogs are tired. Walking the floor of the NAB exhibit hall requires stamina, a plan, and a good pair of sneakers. Without the plan, you need a GREAT pair of sneakers. Luckily, without planning, I ran into plenty of help. Mike Laponis and his twin-brother-of-different-mothers Tim Keenan walked...
Sure, everybody loves to bash Microsoft, the most recent owner of Skype...but the truth is, the lion's share of Skype employees live in Luxembourg, and the development team is mostly in Estonia (the birthplace of Skype). That's hardly a typical Redmond-based mishandling of some browser brouhaha. ...
The National Association of Broadcasters hits town this week. Broadcasting? I thought broadcasting was dead...taken over by the internet, tablet computers, Netflix, and Twitter. ...and yet, there it is, the National Association of Broadcasters convention...among the top-5 best attended...
How many times have I said lately, that Google + is the future of Social Media? I might even be right! 🙂 SoundCloud is also a form of social media that is ascending to a safe place as the de facto program for embedding or linking to audio (much as YouTube serves that purpose for video). That's...
Digital tools are so important to voice-actors. You will not win or lose a voiceover audition based on having MS Office on your iPhone or iPad (or not), but as you know, tools can come in mighty handy in your workflow, and in a pinch. The RIGHT tool can be a lifesaver in a panic. I prefer to be...
There's that term again: Keywords. Everybody throws it around like it's OBVIOUS what they are, or should be. Delve into online websites, marketing your VO services, and you'll see that keywords pop up in many of the SEO and SEM strategies that used to be so important. I dunno. Are they...
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