voice talents – show us your business cards

OK gang, fun idea time! As this blog is about voice over (vox), marketing (market) and advertising (tising) I thought we should have some summer fun here and combine all three into a voice talent business card gallery. Simply email me a decent quality jpeg picture of your business card (front and back if you print on both sides) and we’ll show them here. Email peter (insert the at sign) audio’connell dot com and I’ll post all entries. Maybe we’ll have a card beauty contest and pick a

Improv Class & Me

I’m taking an improvisational acting class, a new experience for me. We’ve had three sessions so far and I’m here to tell you it has been one wild ride. The class is small, usually only six people, so we get a lot of time to work, and we work until we’re finished. It’s a very late night. The evening goes like this–two actors in front of the room working, the rest watching, the coach focused on the action. You watch the other actors work, wait for your

I’m a Voice Actor, Not a Gambler

No one can deliver a punch line quite like my grandpa. This past week when I was in TX for work, I took a 2 day flight to Lubbock to see my grandpa. He asked me how work was going, and I said good (I’m not quite sure he fully understands what I do for a living, so I didn’t go into many details). He told me the following story. “I once knew a farmer that was often accused of being a gambler. One day he decided to look up the word gambler in the dictionary. It said a gambler

Memories of a Disney Legend

Currently, I’m about 41,000 feet in the air flying to Raleigh, NC for an anime convention. The past couple of days have been quite hectic as I’ve wrapped up a few jobs, packed, and rushed around doing this and that. You know, just going about life. Yesterday, I was on the phone when I glanced at my computer screen and saw the news. Wayne Allwine had passed away. For a moment, everything just stopped. For a few of you, this name will seem unfamiliar. I promise you his voice

Friday Fun: Over-the-top Sci-Fi Trailer VO’s

Kudos to io9.com for some fun recent postings. The latest featuring some great trailers for sci-fi films that feature some elaborate VO, properly titled: What The Hell Are You Talking About, Crazy Announcer

How Hard Could It Be?

I’m always amazed at how some people respond when I tell them I do voicework. Apparently, it’s the type of work that folks assume must be easy and that anyone could just jump right into a full time career doing it. Does this happen with other professions? Do people tell doctors, “Oh yeah… I was thinking about getting into that. Where can I get one o’ them stethoscopes?” While VO is by no means rocket science, making a real go of it is a bit more complex

Press Pound(ing headache) for those pesky telephony formats

When you’re a voice talent, as you progress in your chosen profession, you will probably find yourself doing more of one type of work than another: Commercials, Narrations, Promos ….and for those of us that choose to: Telephony. First things first: How do you to SAY “Telephony” Click on the little flash player below to hear how to say the word correctly Ahhh yes…telephony….that which is dreaded by the rest of humanity but loved by those of us that record for it! The “Press

Software Review: Word2Wav

Those of us that are full-time voice talent do a lot of different types of work. TV and radio commercials, E-learning, and a lot of Message on hold and Interactive voice response work. Many of these types of VO work require that individual files be created….MANY individual files……hundreds of files with names like #sys_Press_Pound_Twice_then7.wav Renaming a few of these files manually is fine, but then you’re looking at hundreds or even thousands of audio files with names

Hello Readers Digest Podcasts & AIRSLA.org

I’m pleased announce that I’ve accepted  fellow voicegal Julie William’s invitation to become a Team Leader and produce the Readers’ Digest podcast while she organizes additional magazine podcasts for AIRSLA. This podcast will remain a production of Voice-Overs.com. I’ve been associated with the Readers Digest podcasts as a contributor/reader since they began a couple of yesrs ago. If you’d like to see and hear any of the podcasts, check out this link:

5 marketing lessons from Ralph the artist

Karen’s narration of this entry Life has intervened to keep me away my blog this last month. Two weeks have passed since I started writing this little story from my recent cruise, which is relevant to voice talent. Drew and I were sitting in lounge chairs on the promenade deck one evening when another man and his wife sat next to us and starting talking to us. We found out that the guy’s name is Ralph; I don’t remember his wife’s name. Ralph seemed more interested in