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January 16, 2010

Who’s behind the Voice-over?

You hear the word voice-over banded about a lot, but it helps to understand what people mean by the term voice-over. Essentially, a voiceover is the voice of an unseen speaker. Voiceovers may be talking on the radio or on a tv documentary. They are typically used in advertisements on a variety of audio or audiovisual media, such as radio, TV or the web.

Voiceovers are a recording performed by a voice talent that gives life to characters, tells a story, guides you on a tour, or directs your telephone calls. Usually, professional voice talents are enthusiastic, funny, charming, are flexible, and interact well with other people. They have the ability to take direction or criticism from others and can interpret copy to sell a product, concept, or a message.

If you are trying to market a project and decide that the way forward is to engage the services of pucka voice talent, then you will obviously be looking for someone with skill and experience. You could go bargain-priced and ask a “friend” to do it, but it will cost you in lost sales compared to a professional voice over artist who will be a real supercharge to your marketing campaign. Identify and search for the key traits that distinguish top drawer voice-over artists from the drab and mediocre. To look for a decent voice-over artist, recognise what they are, what they term themselves and what they do. Then hang out in the places that they are usually found and find the person for your task. A voice talent is a voice-over professional who represents a playscript to meet a specific commercial message, leisure, or educational goal. Voice talents provide the voices that you hear during a commercial message on TV, imaging on the radio, narrators for picture show, voices for movie trailers, telephone systems, educational resources, and a wide assortment of web and kiosk applications. Another name for a voice talent is a voice actor. A voice actor (or voice artist) is a person who provides voices for computer and video games, puppet shows, amusement rides, audio dramatic events, dubbed foreign language films, and animation works (including cartoons, animated feature films, animated shorts), and radio and tv commercial messages.

June 8, 2009

How to Learn a Skill with the Help of Audio Titles

Filed under: Best Books, Learning Languages, Multimedia Info @ 11:14 am

A busy lifestyle often makes it troublesome to fit in everything you would like to enjoy reading. Extended commutes to the office and day-to-day activities might eat up large amounts of your day without you recognizing it. Working, taking care of kids or housework all reduce the free time available to persue your hobbies. It’s simple to simply utilize the time spent commuting to catch up on those books you don’t have time to read. Thanks to technology, you can indulge in Daddy’s Girls by Tasmina Perry by Download Audio Book Online, or audio-books brought to life by Bob Colacello when you are busy doing other things. Today multitasking fast becoming important. Audio books like j Krishnamurti – Breaking the pattern of Ego centred activity by j Krishnamurti available from Download Audio Book Online take advantage of the wasted time everyday, whether it is waiting at the physician’s office or taking the kids to soccer practise. Audio books are available to download as mp3 data files these include Pimsleur Swedish Compact by Dr. Paul Pimsleur, so if you have an iPod or other mp3 player and earphones and get ready to check out a best seller or a great novel, like audible books written by Jim Cymbala without carting a cumbersome book around.

Audiobooks extend numerous advantages like the chance to rent or buy many titles and listen to them at your leisure. How about learning Italian? Try an audio-book! Possibly new sales techniques are your thing, or you can enjoy meditating on the newest notions in religious thought. An extensive choice of literary genres and titles are available. It doesn’t matter if you are a history fan, or you are crazy about biographies even if your interests lie in self help, you can download most audio-books now. Numerous options are open; it’s simple to subscribe to a program and hire titles or make a purchase.

Reading will invariably be an important skill, even so the most convenient way might be the thousands of audio titles now available. Some stories, for instance audio titles performed by Jane Goodall, are even better when narrated by the author or an actor. Reading a title isn’t the same experience as listening to an audio title performed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, including the additional subtleties of an real rendition. Savoring audio books performed by Stephen King will bring more depth to your reading experience and often go far beyond the written word.

Don’t forget about audio books next time you want to buy a book, audiobooks are a tremendous means of squeezing the titles you desire into your busy routine.

March 30, 2009

Setting up a Digital Photo Frame

Filed under: Multimedia Info, Photo World @ 10:25 am
Simply remove the memory card from the computer or digital camera and insert it into the slot in your digital photo frame. This is usually on the side of the frame somewhere, but if you can't find it then the manual will show where it is. Turn the digital photo frame on and your pictures should appear immediately. Depending on which model you have bought, there will be different controls in different places. Some smaller or more advanced frames come with remote controls, which you'll need to power up with batteries and consult the manual on what buttons control which function. Otherwise the controls should be on the side of the frame, behind the front screen. Most models will allow you to change or reverse the order in which the photographs are shows, remove and swap photographs and even change the speed at which they change with a touch of a button.

Next, you'll want to ensure that any other features are working well. For instance if your digital photo frame uses touch screen to change and edit photos then ensure that it works well and you know what you're doing. Also, some frames have video capability and can play mp3s so you'll want to get your play list just right, or remove any videos that were left on the digital camera memory cards yet unintended for the frame. Do you have all of the pictures, songs and videos on your frame that you wanted? If you find that some are missing then make sure that they are in the same file format as the others. Some digital photo frames will only display .jpeg files, so if you have any others then they won't show up. Don't worry, all you need to do is get them back onto your computer and re-save the files as .jpeg and then transfer them back onto the frame. It's a bit of a nuisance but once you   have done it once you'll remember to save the files in .jpeg format before you transfer them.

This guide should help you with any queries that you have about the set up of your digital photo frame, but if you have any others then you should either contact the supplier or read through the instruction manual. 

June 14, 2008

Web Conferencing

Filed under: Multimedia Info @ 10:05 am

Web conferencing is an Internet-based technology that facilitates the sharing of just about any audio and visual medium in a conference. This includes everything from presentations to polling facilities to product demonstrations and Web tours. Using Web conferencing, groups of people from around the world can work collaboratively on a document, blueprint or a drawing without leaving their desks. For example, an engineering team in Detroit can participate in a new car design review held in London, while discussing the new design with an advertising agency in New York.

The term ‘Web conferencing’ was earlier used mainly for text-based group communications or discussions over a Web space known as a message board. But now it has evolved to refer to live or synchronous meetings. This technology dates back to the 1990s when the Web was first used for conferences using instant messaging techniques. Microsoft NetMeeting is one of the earliest examples of Web conferencing software that allowed users to collaborate in real time.

A conferencing service provider usually offers Web conferencing as a service. The application software is hosted on the service provider’s server and is made available to customers either as a per seat basis or on usage basis. Some service providers allow their large customers to install the applications on their own servers. Conferencing software that operates on a peer-to-peer basis such as Instant Messengers is also available but its functionality is limited and restricted to small groups.

A large number of service providers and vendors are now present in the conferencing market

This market continues to expand at a rapid pace due to the growing acceptance of online conferencing as an alternative to personal meetings requiring travel and as a better form of communication compared to voice-only conferences.

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