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 [...]
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 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 by Suzanne Bowen. Quite often, I get Asterisk prompt orders through the Digium site in which the client has written something like: “….this phrase comes after ‘Please enter your..’ and before ‘followed by pound.’” It’s a lot of effort to explain where the prompt will occur — especially when I [...]
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Suzanne Bowen. My very first contract voicing telephone prompts was with Telus — the telco conglomerate in Alberta — who hired me to voice their mobility platform. I attended a meeting where they were discussing which prompts were needed, and what time committment would be required of me (in [...]
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Suzanne Bowen. In my career as a professional telephone voice, I can tell you that the work is fairly formulaic — almost everybody requires a front-end (“greeting”) message, a message once people get to their various department selections, an after-hours greeting, and occasionally, an extended absence greeting. That’s it. [...]
