Apple CEO Tim Cook took to the reigns as voiceover artist for a new video released yesterday by the company; talking about the company’s continuing efforts to reduce their impact on the environment, and their plans to be even better in the future. Quite often, having a company CEO voice their own ads & marketing material can be…
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Microsoft Announces Skype TX Designed For Broadcasters
Microsoft have today announced Skype’s forthcoming introduction of Skype TX, a tool designed for broadcasters to enable use of studio quality audio and video streams into productions. This could be brilliant news for voiceover artists and production houses around the globe, to be able to seamlessly dial into clients studios and vice versa, and record…
A Casual Chat with Peter Dickson and Alan Dedicoat
On the Radio Today website, they’ve published a short interview/chat with Alan ‘voice of the balls’ Dedicoat and Peter ‘it’s time to face the muuuuusic’ Dickson. It’s a nice brief look back on their careers, where they started, and what they get up to day to day. They also talk about how and where they…
Recent Case Study – How To Become Dementia Friendly
I was recently commissioned to do a voiceover for Warwickshire County Council as part of their Dementia Friendly Communities initiative. It was a great project to be a part of, especially given the fact my family have a connection to dementia, with my late grandfather having developed it in his later years. Dementia and Alzheimer’s…
New 2014 Voice Reel Released Into The Wild
A new year. A new voicereel. By the end of last year I was startled to realise I hadn’t updated my main reel since that January. So, action stations; there’s plenty of new material I could include from the previous year’s VO jobs, the major job is picking the right bits and compiling it all!…
The Wise Words Of Director Paul Feig
As a voiceover, I receive a lot of scripts of from all sorts of industry types, genres, complexities; you name it, I’ve probably seen it and voiced it. For the most part, they’re usually very well written and engaging, as a lot of them will have been written by professional writers and/or PR or ad…
Project Cast Study – GSMA Europe
Sometime last year I was commissioned to voice a project for the GSMA. The GSM Association (GSMA) is an association of mobile operators and related companies devoted to supporting the standardising, deployment and promotion of the GSM mobile telephone system – Wikipedia It was to highlight some of the new technologies available and in the pipeline to show how…
World’s First Wearable Microphone
Behold! For I have within my possession, the world’s first wearable microphone! Ok, so it doesn’t actually record – but it sure as hell looks amazing! I had this specially made, commissioning the sister of a good mate of mine, Lianne Berploudest, who is a crochet ninja – she really can make ANYTHING. Seriously, you…
Voice Message Me With SpeakPipe
Today I have installed a plugin on my website called ‘SpeakPipe’. It’s a service where you can send me a voice message through my actual website. It will be particularly useful if you’ve sent me a script which needs a couple of pronunciation explanations, maybe an unusual company name, technical/medical terms, unfamiliar jargon etc. All…