Allison Smith is a professional telephone voice. Most likely she has answered your calls, provided you with a wake-up call or given you directions from your GPS. It’s the voice you listen to and the voice that will get your company heard.
Thousands of businesses have been positively enabled by the world’s most popular telecom voice. Listen to her anecdotes…..
Yesterday we asked readers about their run-ins with Steve Jobs, and they delivered. The Apple CEO is quietly ubiquitous, seen from Palo Alton to SoHo, from Whole Foods to Gotham catwalks, a shaggy-dressing crazy driver who’s kind to strangers. We asked how Jobs behaves in the wild for two reasons: One, we thought his outdoor café [...]
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh. I do voice-over jobs which are one-offs — the customer needs literally one recording — ever — and that’s the last they need of my services. I have many, many customers who need me to voice for them on a regular basis — several times a month, let’s [...]
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh I have a few years under my belt voicing telephony platforms, and I can tell you that there are some universal mistakes that I see on a consistent basis — and most make sense if you simply think back to the last frustrating IVR you found yourself trying [...]
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh. It was pretty early, and I was very groggy, but there was no mistaking it: it was me on the phone. I was in Dallas, and scheduled a hotel wake-up call for 7:00 AM. When I picked up the receiver it was….me. Waking me up. About a year [...]
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh. It’s generally well known — by clients of mine whom I’ve worked with for awhile — that I am game to voice pretty much anything. In fact, I encourage offbeat, parody, and “joke” prompts — they provide a welcome respite from the run-of-the-mill (but highly necessary) IVR stock [...]
Written by Allison Smith. Edited by Omar shaikh. A few times a month, I’m e-mailed by people who are toying with the idea of getting into voice-over — they may have been told they have a great voice, or have become enamored with the idea of being the next Simpson-scale animation voice. There’s no question that [...]
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 [...]
But Allison is more than the Voice of Asterisk. She’s also a heated yoga enthusiast and great story teller. Listen to her anecdotes of voiceovers for a prison system, collection agency and one request for a special 1800 service. We met at Astricon 2008 in Glendale where DIDXchange was the Asterisk Developer Area Room Sponsor. Right [...]
