By now, you're familiar with the thrum of swelling accolades following the most recent FaffCon. Perhaps you've contributed to the enthusiastic thread of pictures and superlatives yourself in recent years. (BTW, header photo taken during rooftop end-of-FaffCon party) Forgive us attendees. It's...
Where do I start? How much time do you have? The DEPTH of my dissatisfaction is unplumbed! OK, probably the best way to handle this is with a list, so here goes: FafffCon events are always held in terrible locations The attendees are insufferable bores There are no activities The whole thing is...
Voice. OVER. Guess what?...what you're voicing OVER is almost always video...some sort of visual presentation. Of course, you make it complete with your voice (wink, wink), but since we humans are mega-optically gifted and sensitized... the message you bring is the window dressing to what people...
Personally, I'm never too comfortable with the word "success". That means I've arrived, and that implies a certain stoppage of progress. If you've "arrived"...then where do you go from there? [Well, I'm not opposed to stopping briefly to enjoy some of the fruits of my labor, but in my mind it's...
When I first got into ISDN, I connected through AudioTX. Not that many people are familiar with it. AudioTX is a UK firm with a 14-yr track record in connectivity. The equipment is nothing like a Telos or Musicam codec. No box at all. You get a dongle, some software, and then you have to...
Years ago, I was lamenting (complaining, really) that Apple chose the word "voiceover" for the voice command functions on the iOS devices. It just made searching for topics in our industry much less effective. But now that cat's out of the bag. Heck...people in our business can't even decide...
It's a darn shame, doncha think? So tell me...what does the "it" refer to in the sentence above? It's crazy isn't it? (same question) "IT" has become the most overused, misunderstood, misused "crutch" word in the English language. Lately, I've been going back through emails, bio's, letters, news...
[Prologue: In my closet, I have a special section for storing thin ties, Angel's Flight pants, and Nehru jackets. As fashion trends go... they'll be back. I'm sure they'll come back.] Last night, for the thousandth time I noticed that the directions for the audition I’m about to record say: “NO...
Tuesday, Apple will be making some big announcements. There will be some new iPhone models, a new iOS, maybe a smartwatch to be revealed. Then Tim Cook will offer at least one or two surprises, although it's getting harder and harder to keep secrets in the land of geek. I've been with iPhone...
People wonder why we named the new VoiceOver Industry Trade Association World-Voices Organization. We knew the world was getting smaller, and the global voice-over community was finding its collective consciousness. Just days ago, I wrote of Simone Fojgiel's passion for uniting the...
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