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April 30, 2008

Bettye Zoller : Getting Started in Audiobook Narration

Join Voice Over Expert Bettye Zoller as she introduces you to "Getting Started in Audiobook Narration". Bettye is a veteran audiobook narrator and coach who has been there, done that and got the t-shirt. Listen to this snippet from her audiobook about... audiobooks!

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Bettye Zoller, VoicesVoices.com, Audiobooks, Voice Acting, Narration, Narrators, Voices.com.

Links from today's show:

VoicesVoices.com
Bettye Zoller Voices.com Website

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Bettye Zoller

Bettye Zoller34 years as a respected university and private educator in voice, speech, theatre, radio-TV, and voiceover techniques along with her award-winning career in voiceovers and jingles has won Bettye Zoller an international reputation that brings clients and students to her workshops and to work in her Dallas recording studio (she's an accomplished audio engineer/producer) from all over the globe! She is educated through the doctorate (from Missouri University, University of Texas at Dallas, University of North Texas) with faculty positions in the past at Southern Methodist University, University of Texas at Arlington, Dallas County Colleges. She has also studied with famed NYC acting coach Uta Hagen, in Chicago at the "Second City School" and her career began long ago at Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Hollywood studio school (as a child performer signed to MGM).

Her voiceover credits number in the many hundreds (she's never counted!) and range from voiceovers and jingles for national TV commercials to audio books to cartoons, from toys to podcasts to anime. You've heard her for decades worldwide! Clients have included American Airlines,Pepsi, Visa, Lifetime TV Channel, The Weather Channel, Pace Picante Sauce, Lionel Trains, Texas Instruments Talking Toys, Seven Seas Dressings, Pedialyte Vitamins, promos for ABC, NBC, and BBC America. She is a Simon and Schuster audio book author, narrator, and producer. She has won ADDYS, CLIOS, GOLDEN RADIOS, and AUDIE awards over the years. She is the author of eleven audio titles sold worldwide and continues to produce new titles annually. She is known for teaching voiceover techniques including audio book narration and production, and her BUSINESS OF VOICEOVERS workshops are legendary with students who credit her with starting them in their lucrative voiceover careers!

Bettye, with four top male announcers, has written and produced a wonderful CD program entitled "COMMERCIAL$PEAK" featuring interviews and sections announced by guests and male announcers of reputation. The foreword is by Dick Orkin of Hollywood Radio Ranch, a man who is well known in the U.S. as a commercial creator producer as well as Voice Over performer and teacher.

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April 25, 2008

Mike Kirby : How To Be a Professional Announcer

Join Voice Over Expert Mike Kirby as he shows you the ropes of “How to Be a Professional Announcer”. Discover a portrait of what an announcer ought to be and hear samples of professional commercial voice over work from one of Canada’s top male voice talents.

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Mike Kirby, Voice Coaching in Toronto, Voice Overs, Voice, Voice Acting, Announcer, Announcing.

Links from today's show:

Mike Kirby
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Your Instructor this week:

Mike Kirby VoiceworxVoice Over Expert Mike Kirby

Mike Kirby has won 12 CLIO Awards for advertising excellence in his 30 year career as Actor, Narrator, Broadcaster, Voice Specialist and Author.

* Mike is the Station Voice of HGTV Home and Garden Television Canada.
* Mike’s commercial clients have included Hyundai, Suzuki, Nissan, Toyota, Chevy Trucks, Toronto Blue Jays, Stratford Festival, Cogeco, Rogers Cable, Mobil Oil
* Mike was Host/Announcer of the Special Olympics World Winter Games at Skydome in Toronto and Host/Announcer for the United Way Walk-A-Thon at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto, Canada.
* Mike has been the voice of numerous documentaries for PBS as well as the award-winning CBC documentary series “Witness”.
* Mike Kirby is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York City


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April 15, 2008

Phyllis K. Day : The Layers of Your Voice

Join Voice Over Expert Phyllis K. Day as she takes you on a journey through "The Layers of Your Voice". There is more that goes into a performance than just a rehearsed and polished take. Find out how your life outside of the studio could be affecting your voice acting behind the mic.

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Phyllis K. Day, Voice Coaching, Voice Overs, Voice, Voice Acting, Visual Coaching.

Links from today's show:

Phyllis K. Day
Phyllis K. Day on Voices.com
Email : voicecoach (at) phyllisk.com

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Phyllis K. Day

Phyllis K. DayPhyllis is a freelance technical writer and voice professional with over thirty years experience. A Broadcast Journalism graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, Phyllis became an anchor a few months later on the North Carolina News Network. She has also anchored on Business Radio Network and American Forum Radio Network in Colorado. Her voice has been heard nation-wide and she was also the narrator for a show heard daily on NPR and Armed Forces Radio in the 1990s. Phyllis was part of a mentoring program for several years at North Carolina State University for the students in NC State's radio program. She currently runs personalized coaching workshops, in addition to narrations for e-learning and business presentations.


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April 8, 2008

David Bourgeois : Take Control : Marketing Your Voice

Join Voice Over Expert David Bourgeois as he presents you with some guidance and marketing ideas in his lecture "Take Control : Marketing Your Voice". The president of Voice Coaches discusses the importance of marketing your voice over business and references leading industry professionals who can help you take the next steps in promoting your voice.

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David Bourgeois, Voice Coaches, Marketing, Voice Conference, Expo, Voice, Voice Overs, Schenectady, NY

Links from today's show:

VoiceCoaches.com
Information about the Advanced Marketing Expo and Conference, May 3rd, 2008

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert David Bourgeois
President and Creative Director

David BourgeoisDavid Bourgeois has worked in professional music and audio production for more than 25 years. Compositions and audio post-production for film, television, advertising and multi-media are all part of David’s resume. As the CEO of White Lake Music & Post, David produces music, audio and voice over content for clients including Discovery Networks, TLC, HGTV and the WE Network as well as numerous other regional and local clients. David recently completed the original music score for The Last Round, an independent feature starring former X Files Smoking Man William B. Davis.

Since 1990, David has been active in developing training methods in effective communication through conversational reading. His effort was initially aimed at helping clients get better performances from their Voice Actors in the studio. David’s methods soon became the model for Voice Coaches' individualized training process.

Today, David and his team provide training to aspiring Voice Actors and communication professionals across the country.

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April 1, 2008

Connie Terwilliger : Three Script Pointers

Join Voice Over Expert Connie Terwilliger as she discusses "Three Script Pointers". Learn how to see the big picture and then break it down into separate individual parts, phrases, sentences and words to unlock the writer's direction between the lines. It's your job to figure the script out and follow those bread crumbs to the right interpretation!

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Connie Terwilliger, Voiceover talent, Coach, Script Pointers, Interpretation, Reading, Scripts, Voice Overs, Voice Acting.

Links from today's show:

Connie Terwilliger
Connie Terwilliger Voices.com Website

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Connie Terwilliger

Connie TerwilligerConnie Terwilliger is one of the most well known names on the Internet when it comes to female voice talent. She’s been online with an Internet presence since 1996. Connie did her first official voiceover work on air at KCOE-FM while in college in Cedar Rapids Iowa in 1972. After getting her Masters in Radio and TV at Indiana University, she started a long career juggling many hats – Producer, Writer, On and Off-camera talent. Over the past several years Connie has been able to “retire” as a Producer and Writer and concentrate on full-time voice work for clients around the world out of her home studio and the studios in San Diego and Orange County. She teaches one class a semester - Acting for Radio/Voiceovers - at San Diego City College.

Her session on Self-Evaluation presented at VOICE 2007 was well received and has led to invitations to speak at media performance schools across the country. She has made the 3-hour live recording available on a 2 CD set, packaged with a 14-page workbook. Visit her website for information on how to buy the set. She is also the immediate past President of Media Communications Association-International – MCA-I, a networking and professional development group for media communicators that she joined when she was producing.

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