OK, I admit it, I'm totally biased about WoVO. Of course I am. I'm a founder and the current president. With over 800 members, World-Voices Organization is now more than just a cozy little group of like-minded souls. It's a movement. A movement about to celebrate its 5th year of operation with...
...until 2018. Now what? There's a lot of 2017 left! Gerald Griffith pulled off a masterful and edifying voice over conference again. 500+ newcomers and seasoned pros made the scene, and made memories. I'm still smiling. But you know what?...thousands of voice actors didn't make it to Atlanta....
This one's a gem, folks. I know I probably say something close to that for everyone RR that's come down the pike, but the information shared on this particular panel seems to be more needed than ever. The discussion went way beyond the scary realities of downward-trending compensation rates, and...
Most of January was taken with the effort of getting through January. But that's water under the bridge. February is here, and World-Voices Organization is back with a brand-spanking new panel discussion on voice-over rates. From what we're hearing, the new year will present an ever bigger...
Florida VO Resources is one of the more vibrant of the many local-area mastermind or VO sharing groups. I don't live in Central Florida, but the people there made me an honorary member, and I've learned a lot from their community. One of their members - David Winograd - asked me about a month ago...
Launching into the world of voice acting is a steep challenge. There are no manuals, but plenty of "opportunities". The opportunities range from legitimate offers of help to outright predation, and everything in between...including the costs involved. As you would approach any other profession,...
. Listening to our astute panel for the December WoVO Rates Roundtable talk about the realities of being part of the Spanish-speaking and bilingual marketplace, I was struck by the sameness of their challenge for all voice-actors. Target audience Client relations Interpretation Dialect Fair...
Think synthetic voices aren't a part of our reality yet? Check out Skype's new feature, providing a real-time spoken word translation from one language to another. Now, mind you...no one seems to be saying how well this works...but kudos to Microsoft for moving aggressively into this AI arena. I...
...and World-Voices Organization has two new board members! They are familiar to most of you: Liz de Nesnera Anthony Gettig Both were approved by an overwhelming majority in a vote of the membership, and were nominated in the first place for a number of reasons, chief among...
How fitting that in the final throes of the most contentious presidential campaign season in recent memory, SAG-AFTRA would choose to engage in that most divisive of ploys: A STRIKE (or that the video game industry would choose to engage in that most divisive of ploys: institutional...