What if Life Had a Soundtrack?

What if Life Had a Soundtrack?
I received an e-mail this morning from my friend Stephanie Ciccarelli about something new they have put together at Voices.com. This is just one of the many reasons I love that website (and company!)- they are always trying to find new ways to attract clients- thus giving 'us the voice actors' new leads as well!

If you've ever wondered what a difference a good voice over can make for your project, check out 'What if Life Had a Soundtrack?'.

These are just the first two videos they have put together, there are more on the way!

Power Text to Speech Reader (exe)
Power Text to Speech Reader is a text-to-speech player that lets you listen to documents, e-mails, or Web pages instead of reading on screen; it uses voice synthesis to create spoken audio from text with natural voices. You can listen on your PC or save text to MP3 or wave files for listening later. You can listen on your PC or save text to MP3 or wave files for listening later. Even better, if you have a portable audio device you can take your text as MP3 files to the gym, in your car, or anyplace you need to go. It can directly open Plain Text files (.txt), Microsoft Word files (.doc), PDF files (.pdf), E-mail files (.eml), Rich Text files (.rtf), HTML files. For Microsoft Internet Explorer users, Power Text to Speech Reader supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Internet Explorer and for Microsoft Outlook supplies a handy toolbar plug-in for Outlook. Power Text to Speech Reader supports dozens of male, female and robotic voices for over 11 languages. Version 2.01 is a bug fixing release.

Zenedejas Hosts Spirited Soul Productions Grand Opening Night - Evening Of Destiny-
Top names in gospel music such as winner of the las Vegas bma music awards -best gospel performer -female gospel recording artist Gina Green, and two time Dove awards nominee The Prophet, will be commemorating the event with hit songs from their newly released albums.

Voices.com Announces Advertising Opportunities on Blogs and Podcasts
The leading voice industry podcast, VOX Talk, and the Voices.com Blog Network are now welcoming sponsors on a monthly basis. [PR.com - January 31, 2007]

Voices.com Presents Webinars on How To Find Voice Actors Online
The team at Voices.com recently started offering webinars to their customers, teaching them how to use the voice actor marketplace and hire voice actors online. [PR.com - June 08, 2007]

Advertising Agencies to Benefit from the Spring '07 Release of Voices.com
Agencies in search of top tier voice over talent and easy project management from hiring to billing have a friend in Voices.com. [PR.com - May 05, 2007]

How to get started in Voiceovers
Well, I am still exploring this question myself. I found a very interesting perspective on this question here at Dave Houston's Blog. Eventually, when I am rich and famous, I will compose an amazingly pithy and interesting answer to this question myself. In the meantime, I will share the resources I find with you so we can learn together!