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Forvo – A New App To Help The Voiceover

Forvo, the website that helps us voiceovers out with pronunciations from time to time, have launched a new app to help combat pronunciation woes when we’re due to record. We’ve all been there on occasion; a script lands, and for the most part it’s fairly self-explanatory – but there’s the odd word we’re not that…

The Apple Effect: A Lesson In Customer Service

The other day, my iPhone went a bit faulty – the earpiece stopped functioning so I couldn’t hear anyone on a call, I either had to use loudspeaker or the handsfree cable. Obviously, not exactly brilliant. Made an appointment at the Apple Store’s Genius Bar in Birmingham to see what they think the problem is….

NEW Logic Pro X

2 weeks ago, Apple announced & launched the latest version of it’s pro audio recording software, Logic Pro X. It’s been a long time in the making since it’s last iteration in ’09 – although it had continued to be a powerhouse in recording function. However this time round, they have improved it even further….

Mobile Recording Made Easy

Recently I’ve been investigating potential options for continuing my ability to record voiceovers when I’m not at home. Many VO’s carry some sort of rig around with them whether they’re on a semi-working holiday or just not at home for a period of time. Often that consists of pretty much the entire rig they’d use…

Twitter Is 5 Years Old

On Monday 21st March, Twitter turned 5. It’s certainly come a long way since the early days where people thought it was just a fad. Now with so many users, I think it’s safe to say it’s here for a little while yet. As a voice over artist, I tend to use it every day…

iPhone 5 To Receive A5 Chip

UPDATE In the last couple of days, it has emerged that Sony CEO Howard Stringer had let slip that Sony are to supply the iPhone 5’s camera sensors, to add further speculation that the iPhone 5 will sport an 8MP camera. He’d apparently leaked this information quite unintentionally, but this has naturally got the tech…

Shop Prank App – Now Live

I was notified this morning to say that our second app – Shop Prank – has now gone live in the iPhone App Store. Priced just 59p (USD$0.99) it is the perfect app to wind your friends up when in shops and supermarkets! It includes things like ‘Cashier Number Four Please’ amongst many other phrases…

Why You Should Use Multimedia

With any website, the end goal is to keep them on there for as long as possible, get them to have a look at all the various services you may offer, and encourage them to get in contact you to buy from you. It’s all to do with the conversion from visitor to customer. So…

Rising Up The Rankings

Since our App ‘Telesales Annoyer’ was released, it has been steadily rising up the rankings in the ‘top paid apps’ section in the Utilities category. It started life at position 150 out of the many thousands of apps in that category, so we were very pleased with that. Last night, we found that Apple have…