Vox Talk

Welcome to VOX Talk!

You just heard a promo for the Voice Overs on Demand podcast with Terry and Trish. Their most recent episode featured voice over expert Joan Baker! Go check it out after this episode is through and subscribe to hear their great show too.

To get this show going, I'd like to send a shout out to Mr. Bissell's Broadcasting Communications class at Clarke Road Secondary School. I hope you're listening! This week, I have Pat Fraley in the house as well as some YouTube voice overs from John Miles, but first, the news.

Seth MacFarlane to host 2nd Annual Elans

The Producers of the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA) are ecstatic to announce Seth MacFarlane as the Host for their 2nd Annual Elan Awards Show on February 15th, 2008 at The Centre in Vancouver for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available for purchase to watch winners in the video gaming and animation sectors receive their awards.

To learn more about the Elan awards, go to theelans.com or visit the VOX Talk show notes.

Winner of Unofficial NBC Nightly News Announcer Contest

Finally, some closure! Peter O'Connell published a podcast over the weekend revealing the winners of the Unofficial NBC News Announcer contest he was running at audioconnell

With 60 entrants and over 154 votes, the results are as follows:

1st Place: David Houston
2nd Place: Bruce Miles
3rd Place: Connie Terwilliger

Congratulations to David, Bruce and Connie!

Voice Overs on CDs

In efforts to curb piracy, music labels are now using voice over to thwart would-be pirates from leaking music on the internet before the CDs hit the store shelves.

While the voice overs are quite effective, they also happen to be potentially deterring music reviewers from thoroughly enjoying an artist’s work thereby giving the recording artist a lower rating than they would have had they not been distracted by voice overs meant to crack down on illegal file distribution and file sharing.

The Biz

Pat Fraley and Ed Asner promote workshop

VOX Box

Remember a little while ago when I asked for YouTube voice over submissions? John Miles certainly did and I have some audio to play for you from a campaign John recorded for. Here we go:

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Thank you for sending in your YouTube video link John! I really appreciate it.

To close the show, I'm going to play a promo for PodCamp Toronto. Peter O'Connell and some folks from the VO-BB put this together to help get the word out for the event this February. You'll likely hear some voices you recognize and I can tell you for certain that Jeffrey Kafer is the voice that says "Twitter" as is noted on Jeffrey's blog. Other talent on the recording include Elaine Singer, Chris Rice, Mary McKitrick, Kara Edwards, Liz de Nesnera, Dave Courvoisier and Jim Sutton.