Maybe this notice landed in your mailbox yesterday. It did mine, and it was from Bob Taylor Productions. Bob has devised an answer to a question that’s always bothered him. He states on his new site: VO DEMO SAFE: “… Over the many years I've been a VO talent, there have been enough times when...
Like most of you, I use the same password too often on too many sites. I DO take care to use complicated passwords (combination of upper/lower case, numbers, symbols, and long strings) for my crucially important sites such as financial information. Luckily I have an almost RainMan-like ability to...
...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...
Through what broadband configuration are you sending your big audiofiles? How are you connecting on Skype? That big Source Connect job?...is it getting hung up on your slow internet speed? We all just put Wi-Fi in our home and forget it. Your upload/download speeds are probably working fine for...
Tablets are a game changer. Sure, your iPad is handy for swiping through copy as you read...easy to catch up on email while waiting at the doctor's office...but tablet computers are about to explode on the scene in ways you didn't expect, and the jury's still out on how that effects the business...
My daily routine includes sifting through a number of emails sent to me through Google Alerts. If you are not doing this yet, you should be. Here's the link to Google Alerts. In the spirit of "Google IS your resumé", you might want to start with a simple alert based on your name. This has...
That's actually a hardware/software product....not a Nike ad slogan. The folks from Air Turn had a booth at VOICE2012, and the product generated a healthy buzz among conference attendees. Air Turn is a Bluetooth footpedal apparatus that works with your iPad or Android tablet to turn pages...
Video is in. Big woop CourVO!...uh, I think we knew that. No, I mean, really...even if you don't want to be on camera...you should learn to work with images, take videos, edit montages, graphics, and even think about posting your demos with a video cover (talk to Peter O'Connell...he's tops on...
Not to be confused with J-Lo in any way. Information Overload hits me most days, but lately I've been accumulating kernels of factoids that deserve to be shared, but don't merit a blog article unto themselves. Hence Info O'lo. Factoid #1: Word2Wav founder and wizard Hervé Chain has added some...
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