Voices.com Announces Major Sponsorship Role at the VOICE Conference

Voices.com Announces Major Sponsorship Role at the VOICE Conference
Voices.com, the #1 Voice Marketplace will play an integral part in The VoiceOver International Creative Experience (VOICE), the first-ever conference held for professional voiceover talents. [PR.com - January 23, 2007]

Voicey Awards Finalists Announced at Voices.com
Get ready to hit the red carpet of voice overs with the Voicey Awards finalists, some of the finest voice talent in the world. [PR.com - February 16, 2007]

Voiceover Talent for Recordings in Spanish on Voice123.com
Searching for and hiring voice over actors and producers for projects in Spanish has become a quick and easy task. [SANEPR 5 March, 2007]

New Horror Movie, Film, and Video Voice Over Actors at Voice123
Voice123, the online voice over marketplace, new features professional voice over actors for any type of horror movie, film, or video. [SANEPR 16 April, 2007]

MICHAEL JACKSON AND CHRIS BROWN???
www.freddiebell.wordpress.com Solid Gold Soul June 11, 2007 Welcome to Solid Gold Soul About Freddie Bell Freddie Bell, velvet morning voice talent is a mellifluous voice actor, broadcast-journalist, speaker and National Voice Actor. His vast voice over credits, include hosting several radio programs including the Tom Joyner Morning Show, The Love Train, It?s The Gospel in Tampa, The Freddie Bell […]

Some advice about unsolicited advice
A few weeks ago, Drew told me that he found himself critiquing the voice-over actors on local radio commercials. He said he could recognize voice talent who need more training because they haven't learned how to sound conversational in their reads. Among other things, he astutely detected that amateurs invariably let their voices trail off at the ends of sentences. That same day, I called a major entertainment venue here in Atlanta to learn information about an upcoming event. I was rather shocked to hear a voice message in which the events and ticket prices were read in a choppy, uneven manner by someone with an accent. While some local commercials are produced by people with limited budgets, this complex has revenues in the millions each year. Its operations department unquestionably could afford to hire professional voice talent but has not. In both cases, a professional voice-over artist like me could be tempted to offer her services to these businesses to fix their problems. However, both the people producing the commercials and those at the entertainment venue don't think that they have a problem. My efforts therefore would fall in the category of unsolicited advice and most likely anger the people that I most wanted to impress. I learned this lesson the hard way. As I was beginning my voice-over career, I wrote an e-mail to a local car dealer who runs a lot of radio ads. With my infinite wisdom, I explained that the dealer's ads about Jenny in the office making a Bundt cake for all of the salesmen was offensive because it presented a very sexist and condescending attitude toward women. Mind you, I sent this message in the late 90s or early in this decade. The ad WAS sexist, but as a new voice talent who had no connection to this advertiser, it wasn't my place to point out that fact. Naturally, I happily identified myself as a voice-over talent and offered to assist the dealer with future commercials. I have auditioned for that dealer's spots on numerous occasions but have never booked one. I have listened to my auditions against the ads that ran on the air. My vocal qualities and copy interpretation are eerily similar in many cases. Since I'm a positive person, I believe that maybe the producers knew the talent selected for the ads or perhaps never heard my auditions. I have to be honest, though, and acknowledge that an equally likely scenario is that my unsolicited advice was considered criticism and destroyed my chances of booking work with that advertiser.