News: People

“Today I started dismantling my studio,” writes voice actor Mahmoud Taji, based in Cairo, where a voice over business standstill, bloodshed and fear of arrest for having a beard have quickened the family’s long-term plan to leave the country …

Audio expert and consultant George Whittam has joined Edge Studio as Director of Technology, and Whittam’s home studio technology company, VO Studio Tech, will merge with Edge Studio …

A retired speech pathologist, Darla Middlebrook enjoys a second career today as an audiobook narrator. And one of the reasons she loves voice over is found in a nursing home in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada …

Just starting your voice over career? Don’t spend big bucks on equipment or create a demo until you’ve researched the industry and have gained the necessary skills, advises voice talent / trainer Bettye Zoller in this premiere Voice123 blog series featuring voice over coaches …

Freelance voice over director and audio expert Juan Carlos Bagnell – aka ‘Some Audio Guy’ – has a unique perspective directing ‘top tier’ voice talents and seeing the industry change. What makes the ‘top tier’ so different? And why is the VO ‘middle class’ being squeezed? Rebecca Michaels Hough’s ‘Love That VO’ podcast finds out …

You deserve praise for all you do as a voice actor! Inspired by the 2013 Super Bowl commercial featuring the voice of legendary commentator Paul Harvey, voice talent/producer John Taylor has created an ode to YOU, with thanks to Harvey: ‘And God Made A Voice Actor’ …

Were you moved by the Dodge Super Bowl commercial where Paul Harvey reads “God Made A Farmer”? Voice talent / audio engineer Zak Miller sure was, and inspired to create ‘The Ninth Day’ – a wonderful tribute to studio engineers, “the unsung heroes of the audio world” …

Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT, writer-director-star Lake Bell and her new movie, In A World, won the festival’s Dramatic Competition Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for outstanding screenwriting – perhaps the first of many to come as the comedy about a female voice actor in LA’s promo/trailer world finds a path to movie screens nationwide …

Writer-director-star Lake Bell’s new movie comedy “In A World” was a hit at the famous Sundance Film Festival this week – winning rave press reviews for the film about a struggling voice actor in LA’s promo/trailer world. And you are invited to a special screening with the cast and voice over colleagues, Jan. 31 in San Francisco …

A very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family from everyone at VoiceOverXtra! It has truly been a joy to share the wonder of voice over with you this past year, and guess what – there’s much excitement ahead in 2013! Including a virtual knock-your-socks off event that you’ll learn more about in January. Now we also want to share a few more touching audio holiday messages created by your talented voice over colleagues – Philip Banks, ‘The Four Voicemen of the Apocalypse,’ and Jerry Reed …