When I was in college, I bought a full set of Encyclopedia Britannicas. 40 volumes. As a student, it nearly broke me, but I was convinced I had the most complete compendium of human knowledge in existence. (BTW, I still have them, but I'm a packrat, and that’s another story)....
Everybody's doing it. EVERY internet presence is being leveraged into any and all social networking opportunities. SoundCloud too. Everybody's favorite online audio storage and sharing site adds a new slick user interface, improved search, and the ability to repost. You an also curate a...
VoiceBank, and it's twin sister: VoiceRegistry are a 1-2 punch-of-a-resource for voice actors. No other site offers what they do, and it'd be easy to forget they're there. Of late, they've upped their profile as the sponsor of many a voiceover event, notably their support of FaffCon. Agents,...
Yes. But it's kinda like shopping CostCo or Sam's Club. You haven't really saved money if you bought something on impulse that you really didn't need...even if it WAS at a great price. Cyber Monday started in 2005 with the support of shopping trade group (shop.org) that noticed a spike in online...
When this blog grows up, it wants to be just like VoiceOverXtra. Actually, nothing is quite like VoiceOverXtra, and that's what makes it great. Founder and administrator - John Florian - with his publishing background, has created probably the greatest single resource of voice over information in...
Voice Actors bring a lot of skills to the table...much more than just raw talent, but at the core of things, we're adept with words, and words are formed by culture and history...trends and civilization. We HAVE to know the meaning of a word or phrase...the importance of its context, and its...
...and that's really the best way to think about it...as a frontier. Full of opportunity, but harsh and unforgiving territory that can punish and leave you empty. I'm enthusiastic about the start-ups that blaze new paths in the frontier. Early on, I was a big supporter of CinchCast when it came...
No...not Text-to-Speech. Speech-to-Text. In the newsroom, the most hated, vilified, time-wasting, and tedious duty is manually logging interviews done in the field. We have desks with playback machines, a computer, and a video monitor that displays a time-code. ..but a human being is still the...
This week, I'm moving the youngest of my three daughters into her new dorm room as a Freshman at the University of Goodbye Retirement. Blog posts may seem haphazard, off-topic, or downright pathetic, but on the other hand, it could be fun. Regardless, I couldn't help but start off the week with...
Wednesday -- out of nowhere -- I got a rash of LinkedIn connection referrals to a new freelance P2P site called "3Desk" Like Elance, and Odesk, and Thumbtack, and about a gazillion other sites, 3Desk (it appears) is a marketplace for local freelancers, and freelance-seekers. The site says: ...
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