Posts Tagged ‘
voiceover ’
Apr 1st, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Various
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 meeting [...]
Tags: * rehan allahwala, Ali Hassan, apple, Brian Lam, catwalks, ceo, DIDX, Gizmodo, Google, internet, Magazine, Muneeb Iqbal, New York, Omar Shaikh, Schmidt, shaggy-dressing, silicon valley, SoHo, steve jobs, suzanne bowen, techistan, Technolog Magazine, telecomyou, Virtual phoneline, voiceover, voip, vpl Posted in Various |
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Jan 12th, 2010 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: VoiceGal
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 say. [...]
Tags: allison smith, IVR voicing, voiceover Posted in VoiceGal |
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Dec 10th, 2009 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: VoiceGal
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 to [...]
Tags: allison smith, ivr, voice of asterisk, voiceover Posted in VoiceGal |
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Dec 1st, 2009 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Beats, VoiceGal
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 before [...]
Tags: allison smith, digium. yellow pages, Jane barbe, VoiceGal, voiceover Posted in Beats, VoiceGal |
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Nov 18th, 2009 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Beats, VoiceGal
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 prompts. [...]
Tags: allison smith, kosher, Louis Vuitton, oddball, voice of asterisk, VoiceGal, voiceover Posted in Beats, VoiceGal |
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Nov 18th, 2009 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Beats, VoiceGal
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 it’s a [...]
Tags: allison smith, kosher, Louis Vuitton, VoiceGal, voiceover Posted in Beats, VoiceGal |
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Nov 15th, 2009 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Beats, VoiceGal
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 have [...]
Tags: allison smith, digium, hebrew, pin number, punctuation, schoolhouse rock, somali, spanish, tagalog, voice talent, voiceover Posted in Beats, VoiceGal |
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Nov 12th, 2009 |
By omar shaikh |
Category: Beats, Featured, VoiceGal
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 the [...]
Tags: allison smith, burkino faso, interactive voice response, ivr, techistan, telus, voice of asterisk, voice talent, VoiceGal, voiceover, voip Posted in Beats, Featured, VoiceGal |
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Oct 22nd, 2009 |
By Marty Dickinson |
Category: Events, Podcasts, Sip Trunking
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 after [...]
Tags: actress, allison smith, astricon, conference, customer service, DIDX, didxchange, digium, itexpo, suzanne bowen, technology, Telecom, voice, voice of asterisk, voiceover, voip Posted in Events, Podcasts, Sip Trunking |
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