HM Revenue and Customs has awarded a £13,000 contract for professional UK voiceover services for its YouTube channel. Earlier this year the tax agency issued a contract notice seeing “hire of studio recording facilities and voiceover artist to record UKvoiceovers for HMRC YouTube films”. The department has now awarded the deal to music production and […]
To improve storytelling, TikTok is now letting video creators add voiceovers before sharing their videos on the platform. Adding a voiceover is easy: start recording your video and then continue to the editing page. Tap the microphone icon labeled “Recording.” This will activate the record button, press it and start recording your voiceover on the video part […]
EXCLUSIVE: Erik Seastrand, the former Head of WME’s Voiceover Department, has moved to ACM Talent as Executive Director of ACM West. His position is effective immediately. Seastrand helmed WME’s Voiceover Department for two decades, representing top VO industry talent. Jake Gerloff, who handled promos and narrations at WME also follows Seastrand to the ACM management […]
Young people in Leeds are supporting the #NHSHereForYou campaign by providing the voiceovers for animations aimed at encouraging parents and carers to access care when their children fall ill or get injured. Two Leeds youngsters – Eidy Johnson, 8, from Adel and Charlie Southby, 11, from Wetherby – provided the voices to a nursery rhyme-style […]
While animation has, for the most part, been able to continue in a work-from-home world, many productions have hit a snag: talking characters. Voiceovers usually require a nicely softened and padded room, a special microphone and even when there’s only one person in the booth, there are several people sitting on the other side of […]
More than 70 male, female and child voiceover artists have donated their voices to a specially-made radio commercial to encourage listeners to “keep talking” whilst the UK is in lockdown. Voiceovers United” is a project created, written and produced by voiceover artist and award-winning radio commercial producer John Calvert. The message encourages listeners to “Stay […]
Here’s something creative, useful and important from a range of British voice-overs created by John Calvert at Airforce. It’s a montage of some of the UK’s most-heard voiceovers encourage us to ‘Stay at Home…Protect the NHS…Save lives and….Keep Talking’. PRS details are even included in the YouTube link if you wanted to broadcast it on-air. […]
The Star Wars universe is continuously expanding. With their latest film that introduced new characters including Babu Frik, to a new series. The Star Wars: The Mandalorian is the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise. The series, which pilot episode aired on November 2019, can be streamed on Disney +. “After the stories […]
Earlier this week, we talked about the new features of the Google Assistant that has been featured in the CES 2020. Now, we will focus on another virtual assistant that owned the CES this year, Alexa. The voice of Amazon’s Alexa will soon be heard on Lamborghini and Rivian cars! Alexa has been integrated in […]
Meghan Markle has signed a female voiceover deal with Disney in return for a donation to an elephant charity, it’s claimed. The Duchess of Sussex is said to have completed the recording before she left for Canada on a six-week break with Prince Harry. The signing was in return for a donation to Elephants Without […]