‘Voice Over News’

More panel pops from Instantaneous
More pics courtesy of Simon Grey fom the Instantenous Exhibition @ the Grace Emily.

You can sort of see people’s art in the background.

Jesse – Pulp Fiction Comics website comic reviewer

Erin McGregor – artist and Harley Quinn

Kamahl – artiste

Leon – non-writer and musician (don’t take that as non-musician, becuase he IS a musician)

Matt – Star Wars Character

Vincent (tho his piece had no dialogue nor caption – and according to THE RULES not a comic panel, he did bring a cute lady friend which makes it okay)

Stephen Hall – I think i know this guy but maybe not

Stephen (tho i swear that this is dave hodson – but it could mean I’ve been calling Stephen, Dave for 4 years now. i think i might start calling everyone ‘mate’ and ‘buddy’.)

Voice Actor Cast List Transformers
Optimus – Peter Cullen
Megatron – Hugo Weaving
Bumblebee – Mark Ryan
Ironhide – Jess Harnell
Barricade – Jess Harnell
Ratchet – Robert Foxworth
Bonecrusher – Jimmie Wood
Jazz – Darius McCrary
Starscream – Charlie Adler
Frenzy – Reno Wilson

From the Sydney Press Conference.

Source: tfw2005.com

Tags Perublogs : voces, actores, transformers, casting.
Tags Blogalaxia : voces, casting, transformers, movie.

Voice Over Experts Podcast Hits the Scene at Voices.com

Voices.com reaches out with Voice Over Experts, a new educational podcast packed with nuggets of wisdom from voice over coaches around the world.

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]

San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day
San Fran Voice trolls the online world to find video clips from and about San Francisco. Check the archives to see the ones that you’ve missed.  Posted here every morning at 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBL_3kaGvO4   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAnHkR1Axj8   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJwLLAgD-8 Explanation: Today’s YouTube picks are all about Flag Day (since that’s today). One of the jokes here is that you know you’re from SF [...]

I can hear it in their VERY VOICES!
Mrs. A and I were at the circ desk when the phone rang and I answered it. A lady on the line explained that we had been holding a book for her and she wanted to make sure we still were, because she knew her hold time was up soon. We still had her book and I told her she still had a day to pick it up.

“I’ll be right over to get it,” she said.

As I hung up the phone, I turned to Mrs. A and announced, “She will not have her library card when she arrives. I can hear it in her voice.”

Mrs. A laughed and continued processing inter”liberry” loan requests.

Ten minutes later, the patron from the phone arrived and mentioned that she was the person who’d just called. While she browsed our new fiction, I fetched her held book and set it upon the counter, awaiting the inevitable. Sure enough, she came over and said, “Am I ready to go?”

“Actually, I need to check it out to you first. Can I scan your library card?”

“You mean you… oh,” she said. “I need the card?”

“Yes, ma’am,” I said sweetly.

“You can’t just look me up by…”

“No, ma’am,” I said even more sweetly, this time with a smile.

She seemed to debate something internally for a couple of seconds, then gestured to the door and gave the international sign language for I’ll be right back, I have to go get my pocketbook out of the car. When she was out the door, I turned to Mrs. A.

“What did I say?” I asked. “I tell you, I can hear it in their VERY VOICES!”

Mrs. A was suitably impressed.

I was even more correct than I had originally thought, though. Back our patron came, pocketbook in hand. She dug through it for nearly a minute searching for her card. Occasionally she would mutter, “I bet she still has it,” and “Ohhhhh, she didn’t give it back.” Finally, she gave me a pitiful look and explained that she was pretty sure she’d loaned her card to her daughter, but the kid hadn’t returned it. She then blinked hopefully and her eyes darted to my computer, using the international eye-sign-language for You could just look my name up in your computer, couldn’t you?

“I can hold it for you here,” I said, my own voice straining at the known boundaries of sweetness.

The patron left, sans book.

Twenty minutes later, she returned. Turns out she’d only left her card at work.

Guide To Ensure Payments For Online Voice Over Work Released
Voice123, the online voiceover marketplace, published guidelines and advice for voice talents to ensure getting paid for voice over work. [SANEPR 28 March, 2007]

KOREAN voice over talents
Recording studios in Canoga Park looking for native Korean speakers for voice over projects. Experience in voice over/acting/TV/ radio a plus but not necessary.

Enjoy Yourself Tonight (Pt. 829)
Enjoy Yourself Tonight (Pt. 829)

So I just got a brief call from the founder of the DDR Club at University of Missouri, Kansas City. The reason he called is because he forgot the answer to the question of XotW (DWI EX of the Week). After that, he asked the whole club to say hi to me.

I just felt so great when I heard so many different voices saying “Hi, Terrence” on the background. It was loud that I needed to take my phone away from my ear for a few inches. And when I responded to them, I felt my voice was so weak compared to them.

Widening the base, amplifying the citizen voice
The primary season saw the beginning of a new kind of politics in Philadelphia, one that must be carefully nurtured if it is to grow. One facet of this new kind of politics is evident in the number and variety of mayoral and city council candidate forums held in virtually every neighborhood across the city and sponsored by a wide range of groups. Great Expectations sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia Inquirer was joined by the Next Great City sponsored by Philadelphia Future and the Next Mayor project sponsored by The Daily News, WHYY and the Committee of 70. Some others included two forums on education sponsored by Cross County Collaborative sponsored two forums on education and the 2007 Future Leaders Mayoral Forum sponsored by the Philadelphia Youth Network and the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition. In the midst of all this candidate talk, it is easy to miss something what is perhaps a more important kind of talk: citizen talk. Not citizens asking questions of the candidates, but citizens talking with each other about the issues and about the campaigns. The Great Expectations Project is the prime example of this brand of citizen talk. With more than 50 citizen forums in neighborhoods across the city (and two in the suburbs), it was one of the few projects in which citizens talking to citizens came before, and formed the basis of, citizen questions to the candidates. Why is this important? Why does this signal a change in politics in this great city? Think of politics in Philadelphia (or in any democracy) as a triangle ? a triangle in which each side represents a different kind of political actor ? one side representing elected and appointed officials, another representing professional stakeholders (such as developers or well funded special interest groups) and the base representing the citizen voice. In Philadelphia ?politics as usual? is like an isosceles triangle with two very long sides, but a short or narrow base. That is, the voice of citizens is often dwarfed by the voices of officials and professional stakeholders. And, if what we?ve heard in Great Expectation citizen-driven forums is accurate, citizens are tired of getting the short end. What they want, and what Great Expectations has helped create, is for this isosceles triangle to grow into an equilateral triangle ? a triangle in which citizens and the citizen voice is equal in strength to that of officials and professional stakeholders. – Harris Sokoloff

Voices.com Makes Giant Splash at VOICE 2007 in Las Vegas, NV
Major Sponsor Voices.com heated up Vegas sands with charisma and good old-fashioned fun at the Voice Over International Creative Experience (VOICE).

Political Ad Voice Talent

I heard a great piece on NPR yesterday with two guys who do a ton of attack ad voice-overs.  Their normal voices were similar to their TV voices, but they both used subtle changes in pacing and breathing that transformed them from normal deep-voiced guys into all-knowing voices of serious condemnation.  Using those voices, they then read various nursery rhymes and turned them into attack ads.  Funny stuff.

There’s a woman who does a lot of the GOP ads here in Minnesota, and I’m sure lots of other places, too.  It’s hard to describe what she does, but it’s this weird sort of hiss or lisp or cutting off of the last part of a word.  It so perfectly captures the prudish, pious disgust that motives certain parts of the conservative frame of mind.  I’d love to know if that’s really how that woman talks or if she actually uses that voice intentionally.  She’s either a master of her trade or an actual pious, prudish woman full of disgust.

Both the guys on NPR said they really had to check their own politics at the door.  I suppose that’s true in a lot of jobs, and we all do check our politics at the door in a variety of situations, such as a Libertarian swingers party.  I have to think if you were a hard-core partisan it would be hard to not have second thoughts about literally being the voice of your opposition.  I’m not sure I could do it, although it’s entirely possible that getting paid like premium voice talent could influence my thinking on the subject.

Jimmy O’Byrne – Actor, Musician, Voice Overs, Talking Books,…
Jimmy O’Byrne is a versatile actor, musician, voice over artist, and has recently moved into the world of talking books. As a producer/director for many productions, Jimmy is well versed in behind the scenes

Voice123 (voice123.com) Announces Advertising and Marketing Opportunities
Voice123 starts to sell advertising space on their website and offers marketing partnerships for the voice over industry. [SANEPR 16 January, 2007]

SpeechMagician
This software builds the audio files for your mobile devices, such as the real voice MMS, color rings and truetones for mobile phones. It also builds the dubbing voices for your videos and movies and the asides for your PowerPoint and other presentations. It can attach the voice indexes and labels to your songs in the CD and protable MP3 player. It reads the text for you as all the text to speech software can do. Over 10 languages and 20 voices supported.

First Online Voice-Changing Clinic Opens
Screaming Bee opens a new voice-changing clinic for online gamers. The very first clinic of its kind provides customers with advice for improving their online voices. It also provides real-time technical support and education.

Cum invocarem : soprano, alto, tenor, bass & continuo / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti ; edited by Dennis Collins.
Author: Rigatti, Giovanni Antonio, ca. 1613-1648.
Publisher: [Dundee] : Prima la musica!, c2004.
Subjects:Sacred vocal quartets with continuo., Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with continuo., Psalms (Music) 4th Psalm.

Miserere : for SATB,SATB & organ continuo / Leonardo Leo ; edited by T.J. Martino.
Author: Leo, Leonardo, 1694-1744.
Publisher: New York : Mannheim Editions, c2003.
Subjects:Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 8 parts) with organ., Psalms (Music) 51st Psalm.

Giovanni da Palestrina
With works that are often regarded as the perfect models of Renaissance polyphony, Italian composer Giovanni da Palestrina had his first major appointment as the organist of San Agapito, Palestrina. After the election of Pope Julius III, he was appointed maestro di cappella of the Cappella Giulia in Rome, where he wrote his first works. Well-regarded in Rome’s musical society, he shuffled through posts at two of Rome’s greatest churches, St. John Lateran (1555-’60) and San Maria Maggiore (1561-’66). During the 1560s and 1570s Palestrina’s fame and influence was bolstered by the wide distribution of his published works. His most famous mass, Missa Papae Marcelli, is said to have been composed to satisfy the requirements for musical cogency and textual intelligibility during the Counter-Reformation. After marrying his second wife, a wealthy fur merchant’s widow, he enjoyed his most productive years at the end of his life free from financial concern. He died in Rome in 1594. A prolific composer of masses, motets and sundry sacred works, he assimilated and refined his predecessors’ polyphonic techniques to produce a “seamless” texture based on balanced voices and a sense of nobility and restraint that made an unquestionable influence on Renaissance music. – Nate Cavalieri

Amir Srivihasan

Actually I have the Nextup newsreader also with the paul voice from Neospeech. I think it’s nott the same. I thought it was familiar, but I put the same text in both their website and the nextup textloud program that I have. The processing was different. it seems like the Bluegrind one was more accurate, specially with the dates and time and the website addresses and some language differences.
The voice is also slightly different to me when I listen to them side by side.

Just as a sidenote, I have also tried the AT&T voices, and after a while they all sound the same, but I think this bluegrnd one is differnt than the nextup one or the neospeech one.

Voices.com Podcast, VOX Talk, Introduces Weekly Correspondents
The VOX Talk podcast, hosted by Stephanie Ciccarelli of Voices.com, recently welcomed two weekly correspondents, professional voice talents Julie Williams and Adam Fox, to host segments on the VOX Talk Podcast. [PR.com - January 30, 2007]

Deep Space Voices Add-On For MorphVOX Voice Changer
Be the first to be transformed into a fighting Cyborg, a scary Mutant,
or a stoic Android.
This add-on is especially meant to enhance online role-play. It allows
gamers to get into character better by providing quality voices to
match their in-game avatar. The Deep Space Voices add-on has the
following voices: male/female android, cyborg, male/female mutant, and

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]

Political Ad Voice Talent

I heard a great piece on NPR yesterday with two guys who do a ton of attack ad voice-overs.  Their normal voices were similar to their TV voices, but they both used subtle changes in pacing and breathing that transformed them from normal deep-voiced guys into all-knowing voices of serious condemnation.  Using those voices, they then read various nursery rhymes and turned them into attack ads.  Funny stuff.

There’s a woman who does a lot of the GOP ads here in Minnesota, and I’m sure lots of other places, too.  It’s hard to describe what she does, but it’s this weird sort of hiss or lisp or cutting off of the last part of a word.  It so perfectly captures the prudish, pious disgust that motives certain parts of the conservative frame of mind.  I’d love to know if that’s really how that woman talks or if she actually uses that voice intentionally.  She’s either a master of her trade or an actual pious, prudish woman full of disgust.

Both the guys on NPR said they really had to check their own politics at the door.  I suppose that’s true in a lot of jobs, and we all do check our politics at the door in a variety of situations, such as a Libertarian swingers party.  I have to think if you were a hard-core partisan it would be hard to not have second thoughts about literally being the voice of your opposition.  I’m not sure I could do it, although it’s entirely possible that getting paid like premium voice talent could influence my thinking on the subject.

Amir Srivihasan

Actually I have the Nextup newsreader also with the paul voice from Neospeech. I think it’s nott the same. I thought it was familiar, but I put the same text in both their website and the nextup textloud program that I have. The processing was different. it seems like the Bluegrind one was more accurate, specially with the dates and time and the website addresses and some language differences.
The voice is also slightly different to me when I listen to them side by side.

Just as a sidenote, I have also tried the AT&T voices, and after a while they all sound the same, but I think this bluegrnd one is differnt than the nextup one or the neospeech one.

Miserere : for SATB,SATB & organ continuo / Leonardo Leo ; edited by T.J. Martino.
Author: Leo, Leonardo, 1694-1744.
Publisher: New York : Mannheim Editions, c2003.
Subjects:Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 8 parts) with organ., Psalms (Music) 51st Psalm.

Singer Needed For Full Time Pro Covers Band (Doncaster,South Yorkshire)
Singer Frontman required for very busy pro covers band based in South Yorkshire.We play venues like ButlinsBritish HolidaysJumpin JaksHotelsClubs etc Wide range of material from Robbie Williams to Green Day.This is a very established band of 10 years.Top managementLighting showPa etc.Great money paid.Very secure and stable position.This is a Full time position as we gig 3 5 nights a week.No egos in the band.Great atmosphere.We need someone with a great voice and a great character.

Bob Michaels; Voice Talent, Narrator, Announcer, Voice-Overs
Bob Michaels is a Dallas, Texas-based voice talent; a narrator, voice actor, and announcer providing voice-overs for electronic and broadcast media.

Voice123 Voice Acting Webinars Available in the Resource Center
Recordings of the online seminars for voice over talents are now available at the website’s resource center. [SANEPR 20 April, 2007]

“The Bride in the Attic” – a DoomBuggies.com Halloween special
ANAHEIM, CA – The mythic, haunting history of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion will finally be told by voice talent Kat Cressida, the artist whose performance as the high-tech “Black Widow Bride” was added in early 2006 to the Disneyland version of the Haunted Mansion attraction as part of park-wide enhancements made to the attractions during Disneyland’s 50th anniversary festivities.

Disney aficionados will be pleased to hear that this is the first time that a telling of the “backstory” from the Haunted Mansion is presented being based on the story as it was told by the WED Enterprises “Imagineers” themselves back in the earliest days of the attraction’s existence. For decades, Haunted Mansion fans have told tales and myths of the Mansion’s storied history, with little more than anecdotal evidence to back their claims. Cressida’s telling of the story will be pulled directly from her childhood conversations with her father, who worked for Disneyland’s PR Department, and also worked directly with the original Imagineers who created this famed attraction.

“Dad was a graphic artist and ‘marketing-meister’ who worked closely with Disneyland in the early ’70s, so he had come in contact with many of the Imagineers who had crafted the attraction,” Cressida explains. “[While waiting in line for the ride,] he loved to ask me, ‘Why is the Mansion so neat and pretty if it’s called the Haunted Mansion?’ He’d ask, ‘Do you see that? Do you know what this is? Do you know why that’s there??’, which led to a grand unfolding of this tale as we inched our way towards the turnstiles.”

Curious? Well, be certain to visit DoomBuggies.com on Halloween day, 2006, to hear the story of “The Bride in the Attic” for yourself! The story will be streaming for free for one day only (and will then be available as a download for your digital music library for 99 cents.)

“Nuptial Doom: The Bride in the Attic”
A History of the Haunted Mansion… As Told by Kat Cressida

Adapted by John Starling

Written for Recording by John Starling & Kat Cressida

Recorded at the GRAMMY® Award-winning SoundWorks Studios, North Hollywood, California, on October 19, 2006

Recording mixed & produced by Jeff Sheridan

Sound effects courtesy of Walt Disney Records, from a new digital master of the original sounds of the Haunted Mansion

Special thanks to: Chris Goosman, (Walt Disney Imagineering), Tom Fitzgerald (Walt Disney Imagineering), Walt Disney Records, Brian Nefsky, (Theme Park Productions), Ned Lott, Howard Green (Walt Disney Studios), Tim Curtis (William Morris Agency), Jerry Beber… and a certain Pirate.

To view Kat Cressida’s extensive VO credits (including her work for other Disneyland attractions), visit KatCressida.com.

About DoomBuggies.com
DoomBuggies.com, a tribute to Disney’s Haunted Mansion attractions, has been called “exhaustively in-depth” by Variety Magazine, and has been named a Yahoo! Pick of the week, as well as a USA Today HotSite. The web site, which will celebrate its 9th anniversary on Halloween, features a rich tapestry of history, stories, secrets, interviews, and multimedia offerings that enable visitors to both re-live their memories of the Haunted Mansion and enhance future trips through the ride by arming themselves with insight and understanding of the attraction. The web site also features a large and active message-board community of fans of the Haunted Mansion.

Voices.com Makes Giant Splash at VOICE 2007 in Las Vegas

Major Sponsor Voices.com heated up Vegas sands with charisma and good old-fashioned fun at the Voice Over International Creative Experience (VOICE).

Voices in the Dark
I feel weak, famished, done…

What am I doing here? Where am I?

Oh, if only I could move my hands and legs! Voices, I can hear voices, strange and familiar. I know that voice. Whose’s it?

Dark, it is dark here. If only I could open my eyes!

25 ways to get publicity and traffic to your web site
I subscribe to a fantastic e-zine called The Publicity Hound written by Joan Stewart. In each week’s issue, she posts a question to “help this hound”, and the question this week was from another voice talent who wanted to know how to drive traffic to his web site. I answered with 20 suggestions on Joan’s blog but am including my answer here these ideas may help other people. Also, I am adding 5 more ideas that I didn’t include in my original answer. As another voice-over talent, many newcomers to the industry ask me the same question. I have written essays on my blog in which I point out that voice-over is a business that requires a marketing plan. Like any business owner, the talent should determine where s/he fits in the marketplace and develop a marketing plan that targets the primary prospects on a steady and consistent basis. Numerous ways exist to contact the prospects and depend on a person’s time, budget and creativity. If the goal is simply to drive traffic to a web site, obviously, getting a link to your site published in a popular e-zine like The Publicity Hound will do the trick!

Missa Introduxit me rex in cellam vinariam : Patrem and Sanctus only.
Publisher: Praha : Department of Music History. Institute of Ethnology. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, c2006.
Subjects:Masses Excerpts., Credo (Music), Sanctus (Music), Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.

In te Domine speravi : two tenors (or sopranos), bass & continuo / Giovanni Antonio Rigatti ; edited by Dennis Collins.
Author: Rigatti, Giovanni Antonio, ca. 1613-1648.
Publisher: [Dundee] : Prima la musica!, c2004.
Subjects:Sacred vocal trios with continuo., Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 3 parts) with continuo., Psalms (Music) 31st Psalm.

Voice Actors to Benefit from Spring ’07 Release of Voices.com
Voice actors around the world are about discover a new reality that will make working online easier, more productive and liberating at Voices.com, the #1 Voice Over Marketplace. [PR.com - May 04, 2007]

Missa Introduxit me rex in cellam vinariam : Patrem and Sanctus only.
Publisher: Praha : Department of Music History. Institute of Ethnology. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, c2006.
Subjects:Masses Excerpts., Credo (Music), Sanctus (Music), Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), Unaccompanied.

Lecture 4 – The Voice
First assignment, the radio voice – what kinds of voices can we hear on radio in Australia today? How do radio presenters use their voices?

Voice123 Bonded With the Voiceover Industry at the VOICE 2007 Event
Voice123 strengthened it relationships with the voice over community at recently concluded VoiceOver International Creative Experience in Las Vegas. [SANEPR 11 April, 2007]

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!

Meet Dave Adams the voice of Mojo Sam
Let’s take a break from birdwatching. I would like to introduce everyone to Dave Adams. Dave is an Philadelphia artist and a radio voice actor that I have been listening to for over 30 years. For those of you that are familiar with ZBS media then you know who I am writing [...]

Fifteen minutes on agni with voice

Filed under: Stories

Well, I downloaded the voice-enabled First Look viewer, and went out to one of the PG welcome areas to have a listen. Results were … mixed, to say the least.

A cluster of ten people were standing around talking. It only took a few minutes to identify six distinct issues. We could call them the big six, but that’s already taken, right?

Firstly, the Active Speakers window isn’t much help in a group. At any moment four or five people were lit up as speaking, but with several seconds delay between someone lighting up as ‘speaking’ and the voice arriving, it doesn’t really help much in identifying who’s voice you are hearing at any moment.

Second, someone is occasionally screaming or howling in the background. I’ve no idea who.

Third, every few words is fardling or spoony or abfold or snurble (Confused? See here). Who is swearing like a sailor? A few people, by the voices, but I can’t tell who. Never mind this is a PG sim. If you use SL for work, you’ll probably want to stay away from public gathering places if anyone in the office can hear your audio.

Fourth, crosstalk. Miss a word or two because someone is talking over the top of them, and you’ve got no idea what they said. People are going “What?” “What did you say?” “Can you repeat that?”

Fifth, I can hear everyone’s tv, radio, cd-player in the background. That doesn’t make it any easier.

Sixth, unlike all other sounds, voice doesn’t go away when you minimize SL.

Issues. There are definitely issues. Mostly, of course, they’re social issues, not technological ones.

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San Francisco YouTube Pick of the Day
San Fran Voice trolls the online world to find video clips from and about San Francisco. Check the archives to see the ones that you’ve missed.  Posted here every morning at 9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBL_3kaGvO4   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAnHkR1Axj8   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJwLLAgD-8 Explanation: Today’s YouTube picks are all about Flag Day (since that’s today). One of the jokes here is that you know you’re from SF [...]

Ace Buddy
This program can read any text in any window. It can also play plain text files. Ace Buddy has a WinAmp-style user interface with dozens of voices, characters and skins.

Promo & Imaging Voice Talent Matt Williams Rocks the VOX Talk Podcast

Voices.com recently hired voice talent Matt Williams to record a new show intro for their podcast, VOX Talk, the #1 voice over industry podcast.

Voices.com Makes Giant Splash at VOICE 2007 in Las Vegas

Major Sponsor Voices.com heated up Vegas sands with charisma and good old-fashioned fun at the Voice Over International Creative Experience (VOICE).

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!

Voices.com and Voice123: The Verdict is In, Pro Voice Actors Unite
In a recent poll involving over 10,000 voice actors, an overwhelming majority of respondents said that they prefer Voices.com over voice123 as their voice marketplace. [PR.com - March 05, 2007]

They Found Me At Voices.com!

Kudos and much thanks to you and Voices.com — I just completed a corporate video narration for Portofino Group, Miami, Florida. They were very pleased with my work and it sounds like I’m on board for a lengthier project with them in a few weeks.

They found me at Voices.com !!

It’s nice to get work through auditioning — even NICER to simply be chosen from the pack !

Thanks again and blessings to you, David and gang.

Cheers,

Glad Faith

Vox Talk Podcast has been a Godsend

I am a relatively new member and I am absolutely THRILLED I found Voices.com.

This site has been a Godsend… for someone like me who works in the industry behind the scenes, but who is always looking at the spotlight (or microphone) with stars in his eyes! Thanks to the support of my family, a little bit of luck and the insight of your website and podcasts, I am finally getting my name back out there and starting to book some jobs; After having a good start in Chicago several years ago, then taking a not-by-choice near 6 year hiatus, I am starting over, but I am READY! !

Spring ’07 Release – SurePay

So you’ve found a voice over talent using Voices.com. Now you have to go to an entirely different web service to pay them – and another to receive the audio files – who can remember all those websites, usernames and passwords?

Thanks to SurePay, now there’s only one name you’ll need to know: Voices.com.

Cia Recruitment Video
Payment is on a lo/no/deferred basis. Director: Eric Brown. We are looking for a male voice actor able to play between the ages 40 – 50. The spot will be read solo, and is under two minutes. Expect no more than 2-3 hours of work. The rate is $35/hour cash. No scale. The finished animated video will be presented in 3-D on holograph kiosks at the Central Intelligence Agency. Apply to: Alex Freimuth 1 breakdown: 1. Male / Any yrs. / White. [Others like this] The character you …

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]

Text to Speech MP3 with Natural Voices
This program converts text to speech and MP3. It supports batch conversion to MP3s. It provides AT&T natural voices in English, German, French or Spanish. It integrates with MS Word, WordPerfect, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer, and lets you direct listen to text in documents, Web pages and e-mails.

Marcus Hutton Voice Overs – British ISDN Voice-Over talent…
Marcus Hutton is a British male voice over artist. Available for voice work throughout the UK and the World. Get details of his international ISDN and studio recording service. Delivery all formats including MP3, Wav, Aiff, CD and DAT. Bookings now taken by credit card. Marcus Hutton British voice overs – hear on line samples for UK voice-overs, TV voice overs and radio voice-overs

Personalized Touch
Celebrities bring the bling…from their head to their toes, literally! Pink had her and husband Cary Hart’s initials and their wedding date hand applied in blue swarovski crystals to the soles of her Stuart Weitzman heals for their wedding. Any bride who buys Stuart Weitzman shoes for her wedding can do the same for an additional $75.

Child Care Subsidies and Leaving Welfare : Policy Issues and Strategies
This report examines policy issues around subsidy use among parents who leave TANF. It includes data on what parents have to do to keep subsidies as they leave TANF in 11 sites/11 states in 2001, examines existing research on welfare leavers and subsidy patterns, and reviews state policies regarding child care subsidies for welfare leavers for a range of states. It provides an overview of key policy issues and discusses the implications of these findings for efforts to help families move towards self-sufficiency.

The Sacramento Dependency Drug Court: Development and Outcomes

Dependency Drug Courts (DDCs) are a growing method of addressing the functional status and reunification success of families involved in child welfare and affected by substance use disorders. Despite widespread interest in DDCs, few evaluations have appeared in the literature to help inform the discussion about their effectiveness. This article provides a description of various types of DDCs and reports 24-month reunification rates from the Sacramento DDC. Results indicated that DDC participants had higher rates of treatment participation than did comparison participants. In addition, at 24 months, 42% of the DDC children had reunified versus 27.2% of the comparison children. There were no differences in treatment completion or child reunification rates by parent’s primary drug problem. Rates of recidivism were extremely low for both the DDC and comparison groups and did not differ significantly. The results of the present study are encouraging and suggest that rigorous, controlled studies are merited to further evaluate the effectiveness of DDCs.