Any voice talent reading this post will probably agree with me: there is no other more commonly heard direction —either from engineers directing a voice-over session or the clients and ad agency writers looking up from the cheese platter and offering their suggestions on how the spot should be read — than the following: “Just [...]

The link to a New York Times article was sent to me a couple of weeks ago by a client of mine —  uReach Technologies, out of Holmdel, NJ (www.ureachtech.com) — they supply voice mail  service to many telephony companies, among many others, Verizon. They’ve hired me for  years to voice not only platforms for [...]

Written by Allison smith. Edited by Omar Shaikh. Ever since I blogged last Fall about getting started in voice-over, I heard from many voice talent wanting advice about how to specifically get into voicing IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems — my area of specialty. Like any niche that one find themselves in, I can’t say [...]

Written by Allison smith. Edited by Omar Shaikh. You probably gave a great deal of thought to your website, and the image you wanted to convey to customers the moment they landed on your page. You knew that people would make an instant (and sometimes unforgiving) decision about whether or not they wanted to delve [...]

Written by Allison smith. Edited by Omar Shaikh. Last blog, I discussed tangible measures that IVR writers can do with their scripts to greatly facilitate the recording of their prompts — and it can be as simple as the program and format you use. This post, I’ll delve into other ways which can forge a [...]

Written by Allison smith. Edited by Omar Shaikh. I am blessed to gain lots of new clients every week who either approach me due to being referred by a colleague of theirs, or many come my way by way of  Google searching and landing on my website.  However, in addition to fresh new clients, I am [...]

Written by Allison smith. Edited by Omar Shaikh. A few years ago, I voiced an interesting project for Kodak: a self-serve photo development kiosk where photographers could process their own film by simply walking up to a kiosk, installing their film, and controlling the processing of their photos in a very turnkey way. I was [...]

Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh When I first started out as a voice talent, (OK, I’ll admit it: pre-internet) the extent of “savvy” marketing was mining the Yellow Pages, searching for local sound studios, talent agents, audio production houses and film production companies  to which to send your demo. Once those leads [...]

Written by Allison smith. Edited byOmar shaikh When I first started voicing the prompts for Asterisk, I must confess to having absolutely no knowledge about VoIP whatsoever. I only knew that VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) — of which Asterisk was a shining example – is a technology which enables voice communications over IP networks, such as the [...]

Written by Allison smith. Edited by Omar shaikh As a professional voice talent who specializes in voicing all manner of telephone applications — and as someone who’s done it for awhile — I can confess to some of it being quite formulaic. Basically, what everyone wants is a warm greeting for their callers, simple instructions as to which department [...]