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...
The issue of Synthetic Voices has garnered as much or more attention on this blog as any other one topic. There are unique challenges and advantages in this area to the voice actor. I'll get to that in a minute. First, a little backstory: I've blogged about this at least 6 times in recent years:...
Why have I often harangued my readers to learn "Touch Typing"? It saves time. Gobs of it. Look, if you don't type much...no big deal. Hunt 'n' peck with your index fingers all you want. But let's face it...Americans are writing more than ever. E-mail, FaceBook, Twitter, Blogs, Comments,...