Category: PeMo VO Blog
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Voice Actors and AI Jobs: Navigating the Changing Landscape
The voice acting industry is evolving due to AI advancements, challenging voice actors with competition but also offering new opportunities. AI-generated voices are cost-effective and efficient, utilized in various applications. Actors are now adapting, enhancing their skills, and working alongside AI. Industry organizations like SAG-AFTRA advocate for a harmonious balance between human artistry and AI,…
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The Rise of AI Voiceovers: Navigating a Changing Landscape
Generative AI is transforming voiceover narration, posing challenges to low-cost narrators as it offers a cost-effective alternative with realistic emulation. To stay competitive, human narrators must emphasize their emotional and interpretative uniqueness, specialize in niches, build client relationships, diversify skill sets, and collaborate with AI, navigating the saturated market by leveraging personal touches and adaptability.
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Recording On The Road
Faced with recording an audiobook while on vacation, I devised a makeshift recording booth with cushions and a blanket to eliminate echo, unplugged a noisy fridge, and temporarily turned off air conditioning to prevent background noise. I bought a durable Shure MV7 USB/XLR dynamic mic for recording on-the-go and used my familiar DAW, Reaper, on…
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YouTube’s Content ID: Automated Frustration, Programmatically Wrong
Copyright is broken, and so is ContentID. ContentID felt that a recording that I had made, using my own voice, and in my own studio, matched Penguin Random House’s audiobook.
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Getting Started in VO? Start With Product Quality
Before you start spending your precious business capital on mics, pre-amps, audio interfaces, computers, DAW software, or DAW plug-ins, spend your even more precious time working on your recording booth/environment.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Six Rules For Success
1. Trust Yourself 2. Break Some Rules 3. Don’t Be Afraid to Fail 4. Ignore the Naysayers 5. Work Like Hell 6. Give Something Back
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More About Audio Compression
In this post I highlight a Wikipedia page on Dynamic Range Compression as an in-depth resource, contrasting it with a previous video from Waves. I show helpful charts and graphs that explain audio concepts like downward and upward compression.
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VO Fx Chain Comparison
A comparison of three distinct FX chains for voice recording enhancements, detailing their separate audio processing steps. It invites viewers to prefer one over the others, providing background on each chain’s origins—from a free broadcast chain to paid Waves plugins—and directs to a specific video timestamp for in-depth analysis.
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Audio Compression Explained Clearly
Squeezing the best out of your audio