![]() ![]() I'm no lawyer (and I won't even play one here), but I would like to add a caveat regarding item # 4, "Save the Video". Christopher Dunn has compiled a list of Five Must-Have Online Gizmos for Your Voice-over Toolbox that you'll want to check out. Having quick access to handy tools is a must for any profession, no less so for VO artists. This history lesson is brought to you by my own melancholy, and also the assumption that you find this as With the mp3 - an audio format that didn't have its own dedicated physical conveyance (at least, not one theyĬould directly control) and which the industry was slow to figure out how to monetize. These days, CD sales are diminishing because the price was kept high, not because the industry was in love Made good on the first part of the promise but not the second. ![]() Production costs, which they promised would fall and take retail prices with them. usually at least double that of the LP and cassette - was defended by the industry as owing to higher Trucks and in retail stores (true enough if one forgets the brief existence of the CD longbox). Vinyl was readily ditched by the industry not onlyīecause they could market the CD as sonically superior, but because the latter took up less space in shipping The parallels of these stories, however, are only skin-deep. Had already taken hold in the marketplace, and also by which time the recording industry was well on its way toīurying the vinyl album - citing simlar sales drops. This takes me back to about 1987, by which time CDs But Iīillboard reports that In 2010, sales of compact discs fell by nearly 20 percent. (It's probably why I can't get enough of TV shows like How It's Made and Factory Made. The actual disc, but we did take spindles of pre-produced artists' discs and assembed them with the cover artĪnd jewel boxes - a mostly automated process that required a large robotic machine that I babysat and Here's a promotional video, likely from '84 or '85, produced by Philips.īefore I got into VO as a career, I worked for a few years at a CD production company. ![]() I could be wrong, but as I remember it, there weren't even any commercial titles At the time, CD players weren't readily available in my area - and those that I'm dating myself, to be sure, but my first introduction to the new format was on MTV in 1983, when Martha Quinn held up a prototype I still remember vividly when CDs were introduced as a sonic savior for music, promising to obliterate foreverĪnd along with it the hiss and limited frequency range of the cassette tape. RELATED POST: Y'all are Fixin' to Git an Education. (Voice talents - and anyone else interested - here's the link to the Voice of America pronunciation guide.) I use the Merriam-Webster pronunciation guide myself quite a bit it's not only a lifesaver for tricky "everyday" words, but the handy "Medical" tab seems tailor-made for those of us who do a lot of medical narration. All of us have the occupational hazard of our own collection of a few relatively basic English words that mangle our tongues and make us sound like we're still learning the language.) (Yes, folks, this is what voiceover performers do. I can say it easily and quickly now, but that's because it once gave me the same fits, prompting me to practice it over and over again until it sounded natural. Rachel, I thoroughly and completely feel your pain regarding "procurement". I have fond memories of a novice newsman at a radio station getting his hand figuratively slapped over saying "Bexar County" just as it appears - which is incorrect, as Bexar is properly said "Bay-er". I have to say, it's oddly comforting to know that I'm not alone in my regionally-specific social requirement to willfully mispronounce certain names and places: In Austin alone, "Manchaca" is "man-shack" and "Guadalupe" is "gwad-a-loop" (yes, even those who speak Spanish properly are compelled to use the "incorrect" but more common forms). Visit for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ![]() This segment from Wednesday's The Rachel Maddow Show serves to remind that, even (especially?) for those of us who talk for a living, some words and names are more problematic than others: ![]()
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