8 Reasons for Hiring a Professional Audio book Narrator
Being an independent author is a mostly do-it-yourself venture. While I generally applaud the DIY mentality especially as it comes to things like mowing your own lawn or building a deck, I wonder how much better people’s books would be received if they had a professional quality narration, as opposed to doing themselves or hiring their uncle bill with a headset microphone. In my humble opinion, here’s why you should consider hiring a professional narrator: 1. Savings I can hear
Audiobooks: Adapting To Digital Age With Price Wars & Multi-Media Options, by James Adams
Audiobooks are adapting to the digital age as eBook readers plummet in price and downloads rise in popularity, notes James Adams, founder and CEO of BeeAudio and a business trends pundit. Looking ahead, Adams offers a 10-point scenario that predicts a collapse of the CD market, and a demand for audiobooks with multi-media options. Actually, it’s already happening …
A Voice Over Historical Landmark – The Voicecaster Demo Wall
In downtown beautiful Burbank… The Voicecaster is the oldest (and one of the most respected) voice over casting facilities in California, and it’s still being run from the same modest (rustic) building Bob Lloyd started the business in 35 years ago. The most talked about feature of the building however is the Voicecaster Demo Wall. A collection of interesting looking demos from successful
welcome mark driscoll to the blogroll
Radio Imaging & Promo Master Mark Driscoll For as long as I’ve known Mark Driscoll’s imaging work (which I think goes back to when he was doing imaging for WLZR in the mid ’80’s) I’ve always thought he was at the top of the radio imaging and promo food chain. For me, his voice quality has been right up there with my voice over hero Ernie Anderson LISTEN And I’ve never and likely will never come close to sounding like either of
welcome allison smith to the blog roll
Female Voice Talent Allison Smith From out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada comes Allison Smith and her Voiceover Gal blog. Specializing in voicing IVR and telephony platforms, Allison has done that work companies like Verizon, Qwest, Cingular, Bell Canada and Vonage. Unless I missed it (and I am getting older) I didn’t see an RSS feed but the content I saw looked great. UPDATE: The RSS Feed address, Allison has advised me, is:
Thanks to the Reader’s Digest 2010 Podcast Team!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 19, 2010 Bobbin Beam Announces 2010 Reader’s Digest Podcast Team for AIRSLA Escondido, CA: Bobbin Beam, voice actress and production coordinator for monthly Reader’s Digest podcasts, has announced the latest lineup of readers. Several of America’s best known voice actors quietly give the gifts of their time and talents each month to record Reader’s Digest Articles for the blind for the AIRSLA website, based in Los Angeles. The AIRS website
Voice contact
On her blog today, my friend Pam Tierney provides a great follow-up to Maxine Dunn‘s excellent article on cold calling from the other day. Now that you know how to cold call, Pam provides you with one really powerful reason why.
The right answers
Do you have friends, colleagues and mentors who will tell you the unvarnished truth when you need it? My friend Rowell Gormon blogs about Questions and Answers and it was his thoughts from this weekend prompted this post. Let’s think about voiceover coaches for a moment. If I ask Nancy Wolfson what she thinks about an audition or a demo, she doesn’t always tell me what I want to hear, but she does always give me an honest answer. I can say exactly the same thing about Marice
The feel-good voiceover blog post of the summer!
In a world…. When the legendary voice talent Don LaFontaine uttered those famous words on a movie trailer, you would be ready to go to a quiet, dark theater to escape — escape the weather, escape obligations, and escape the chattering voice in your head. That inner voice can be especially critical to a voice artist who is feeling discouraged with her progress. Since my brain has come up with numerous scripts having that kind of negative inner dialogue, I thought it might be
As usual, Bob Souer has some sage advice
As usual, Bob Souer has some sage advice for when things go wrong. And things will go wrong. Read about a recent experience of his and how he handled it. When disaster strikes » The Voiceover Boblog http://ow.ly/2d0nH Filed under: voice over