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Hey, there!

I know that fiction is the biggest main category of books on ACX, and it’s what all the other VO teachers teach, but is that all there is?

No.

Should I look to audition for other categories of books? Continue Reading →

Hey, there!

For a while now, I’ve been trying to figure out the answer to how to do something specific on the website. I thought. And I thought.

Then, I finally figured it out.

As usual for me, it just took getting clean. Continue Reading →

Hey, there!

I came THIS close to spending nearly $400 this weekend that I didn’t need to.

I was saved by experimentation. And I’m going to save you too – especially if you do IVR work for older phone tree systems.

Here’s how. Continue Reading →

Hey, there!

A lovely British VO talent has been asked to voice a book with some very explicit scenes and language. She just called to ask if she should use a different name as talent.

My answer? Yes.

But, in this particular case, no. Here’s why. Continue Reading →

Hey, there!

Over the course of the last few days (as I write this), I made a silly, stupid mistake that has put me behind schedule by a few days. It was completely avoidable, but I made it anyway.

And it reminded me of two things: that I am human, and something else.

That mistakes can be very, very valuable. Continue Reading →

Hey there!

There are a number of studios that offer what are called “talent rates,” at usually around a dollar a minute: $10 for ten minutes, $20 for twenty minutes, and so on. This is usually for stopping by, doing an audition and sending it off. These rates are for VO talent that either have yet to install home/portable equipment, or are at the wrong end of town, or can’t get to your agency when a last minute audition comes in. Continue Reading →

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LAME, the MP3-exporting plugin for Audacity, enables software that doesn’t have built-in MP3 export capability (like Audacity) to spit out MP3 files. What does the acronym LAME stand for? Continue Reading →