• Message On Hold
• ACD/IVR Voice Prompts
• In Store Messaging
• Audio Encoding
• Audio Distribution
• Foreign Translation
• Professional Voiceover, Music and Effects
• Radio Spot Production
• Web Audio
• Custom Demo Production

The company launched in the 1980s primarily providing message on hold services for large and small companies. By playing messages on hold, which Telehold describes as “your own radio station on hold,” companies were able to start selling to customers the moment they were placed on hold. Today few savvy companies waste precious on-hold minutes by broadcasting radio ads describing other businesses’ products and services.

Continuing a tradition of maximizing resources, Telehold expanded from the telephone to the web, as well as brick and mortar stores. Using professional voice over talents – like yours truly – Telehold produces audio messages not only in English, but also in Spanish, French and other languages. Its clients includes all types and sizes of businesses, from local hardware stores to major corporations like Johnson & Johnson and Disney Home Entertainment.

The people at Telehold are friendly and professional experts in digital audio production, encoding and distribution. Visit Telehold today to learn more about the diverse possibilities available through audio marketing. Be sure to listen to their various messages as you click through the web site to hear effective web audio in action.

Todd also provides a generous blog with useful content about the voiceover industry from many more perspectives than I can provide as a voice actor working primarily in corporate voiceover. So as part of my continued efforts to pass along good information on our industry, I hope you’ll visit his web site and see all the great things Todd and Resnick Interactive Group have to offer.

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Audio files can get pretty big. Maintaining both archives and current work product onsite, especially in disaster-prone areas, can be impractical. And of course, audio files aren’t the only things you’ll want to back up. Your business files including client lists and accounting records are important enough to store in more than one place; wouldn’t you agree? So definitely check out some or all of these great backup solutions and start storing your voiceover demos, session files, bills and contact information in the cloud for safekeeping

Added Bonus: Go Mobile!

Another great thing about many of these backup solutions is the ability to go mobile and have easy access to your files anywhere you have an Internet or cellular connection. Carbonite, Dropbox, and Box.net, for example, all have iOS apps that I use on my iPad. So, in many cases, I don’t have to turn on my computer just to access an important file. Pretty cool.

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The cast has reportedly countered with an offer to take a 30% pay cut in exchange for a percentage of profit from merchandising and syndication. That sounds like a pretty good deal all the way around, but this doesn’t appear to be a negotiation on Fox’s part.

I hope that changes since, in addition to this talented cast, the show’s cancellation would put a considerable number of writers, directors, animators, sound designers and other crew members out of work.

In 1992 six voice actors from The Simpsons were the first-ever recipients of a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, a juried award with no nominees until 2009 when it was turned into a category award.

As a hearing aid, this device may have had some benefits. It looks pretty cool, but then I’m a big Pixar fan.

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I genuinely love audiobooks. By the end of the day, my eyes are tired and having a story read to me is one of the few harmless indulgences I enjoy. Unfortunately, as a voiceover, I’m a little picky about my narrators. I don’t like overacting, not in audiobooks or on the screen. The stage is different, but audio and screen acting are more intimate. In the Potter series, Jim Dale keeps a story that could easily lend itself to exaggeration intimate and real.

Watch Jim Dale in action for yourself in this short video as he narrates Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, the 2009 Winnie-the-Pooh novel by David Benedictus. Dale is truly amazing:

Check out this Adobe Audition CS5.5 noise reduction video. Although it’s in Spanish, you’ll still be able to appreciate what Audition CS5.5′s noise reduction can do.

Sadly, these improvements come at an unusual cost. I don’t mean the price which is reasonable IMHO at $349. For some reason, Adobe decided not to implement some key features previously available in Audition including: MIDI support, tone and noise generation, video thumbnails and export, pitch shifter, my beloved vocoder effect, and CD burn (which makes the least amount of sense). Although other programs or plugins might replace some of these lost features, their lack in this Audition upgrade diminishes what I think was previously great all-purpose audio software. Adobe Audition 3.0, the older version, could handle audio recording, editing, mixing, mastering and MIDI sequencing all in one easy to use program.