Voice Over Hardware, Voice Over Software and other VO Tools
We love our VO shop-talk don't we? Cans. Headphones. So right off the top, let me say, this blog entry will NOT get into the sometimes animated, but always inconsequential argument about whether you should wear your cans while you're recording. Some say doing so makes you too much aware of your...
The bad guys must be having an impact on web services everywhere. We hear about it, and we see the phishing scams show up in our email, but is internet security really that big of a deal? YES! (and heck yes!) The reason I say the bad guys must be having an impact is that in the last few days,...
How come Voice Acting doesn't have a professional magazine of its own?! (note to self: possible future career path filling this void). Lord knows photographers, writers, musicians, audio engineers, and just about every other creative endeavour known to humankind has it's own periodical. Why not...
A Long-time Voice Acting friend pinged me this week with a quandary he and I both found a bit confusing. Maybe you've seen it too when answering auditions. A hi-profile pay-to-play site includes the following nomenclature when seeking the profile information of it's new talent: Upload your DRY...
See? This is the problem with modern journalism. It has no defenses. It's under attack from the NSA, the White House, Bloggers, its own excesses, and PR machines. There never was, and probably never will be a certification for journalism. We're all so much better than nurses, teachers,...
That is the subheading to an excellent article published just a couple of days ago by Michael LeClair, the Chief Engineer for WBUR (AM/FM) radio in Boston. Michael's cogent analysis of the eventual, and ever more real demise of ISDN makes an excellent summary of the current state of affairs with...
Not everyone shares my enthusiasm for all things digital...I understand that. But how can you NOT like all the fun things you can do online these days? I'm not talking about social media. I'm talking about the media you can construct on your own, using some fun new sites. Many of them come under...
New smartphone and tablet devices are getting churned out at a dizzying pace. Apple and Samsung lead the pack, but the new Nokia/Microsoft merge promises some surprises, while HTC and LG continue to innovate. Because of that, 3rd-party device manufacturers are having a...
Remember when you first read your audition script off the computer monitor, instead of printing it out and reading the words off a piece of paper? The first time I read an audiobook from my iPad instead of fumbling with the noise of turning pages was an epiphany. Why did I wait so long? There's...
Ah...the drudgery! You've just been handed a big long-format narration -- an E-learning module -- and the client specifically asks that each paragraph be its own named sound file. ...and there are 67 paragraphs!!! This will take some serious editing time, no? Hervé Chain developed a wonderful...
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