No matter where you live, you can find and connect with a great voice trainer to help you develop your best performing voice. Online singing lessons are available with coaches who work on Skype, Facetime, and other popular platforms for voice training. You don’t have to commute. You don’t have to be hassled by bad weather or bad parking. Your…
Back in Spring, our team collaborated with dozens of professional voice talent to settle the score on acceptable benchmarks for non-union voice-over rates. Ever wondered how much voice-overs really cost? Voice talents, as you can well imagine, were quite passionate about this topic, and eager to help ‘set the record straight’ on the median fees charged by professionals working in…
Enhancing profitability and growing the business are key facets to any company’s success. Achieving both of those goals is typically influenced by a wide assortment of factors including telecommunications. Now that technology has given the world VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol capability, it is important for forward-thinking businesses to implement VoIP services into their infrastructure as part of their…
Grammar describes how language works; grammar can help us understand sentences even if we do not know the meaning of all the words in a sentence. While there are plenty good grammar books, this article will focus on the importance of the passive and active voice to policies and procedures. Passive voice is an obstacle to clear policy and procedure…
When I started dancing salsa I did not even know that salsa could be counted much less that there was actually different ways to understand the timing. All I had heard at the time was that salsa rhythm was supposed to quick, quick, slow, quick, quick, slow. So if you are confused about salsa timing like I was let me…
Anthony Frisell, world-renowned teacher of voice for singers wishing to pursue careers in the field of international opera, has updated and reissued his three voice manuals: The Tenor Voice, The Soprano Voice and The Baritone Voice. They are intense, in depth and completely responsive to those individuals who wish beginning and advanced training for a serious career. My review is…
The global market for broadband access is continuously growing. Independent market researchers claim that by 2007 there will be approximately 250 million broadband lines worldwide. Broadband access, which is offered over DSL or cable infrastructure, is enabling a large number of Voice over Broadband (VoB) services, some of which are offered by providers who are new to the field of…
Today, we’ve gotten a threatening email from an anonymous sender (go figure…) alerting us that we should not be verifying customers IP addresses when they buy service from us. This John Doe seems to think we’re violating a so-called law and we could be sued for it. The gist of his email was that he collects information about customers that…
When individuals judge their voice they are usually commenting on the quality of their pitch. The concept of how pitch is defined can be easily misunderstood. On a technical and scientific level, vocal pitch is described as how the vocal chords vibrate together to create sound. For a non-technical individual, pitch is often perceived as how the voice sounds. For…
The biggest mistake voice over artists make — and that includes some professionals — is using the wrong microphone. It can wreck your work. If you market yourself on Voice123.com or Voices.com, the wrong microphone will insure you don’t get hired, or if you do, that you won’t get hired by that same person again. Here we’ll look at the…
