As you probably know, the new Apple iPod shuffle can speak up the name of your songs, artists, and playlists. I initially thought it was a new text-to-speech chip. It is not: As you can see in this flowchart, the trick happens in your computer. Apple patented the process a while back, and it's going...

Apple is surely running out of things to put on its iPod, given that its latest “innovative feature” is that the new iPod shuffle will talk to you. In fact, it’s the first music player that’ll talk to you. There’s a reason for that, Steve. No-one else would be silly eno...

Christopher over at Music for Media has a wonderful post that gives instructions for how to record the best darn voiceover you can record. I have critiqued tons of videos that had terrible-sounding voiceovers: Believe me folks, this is important. You must hop over to see his advice, but here’s...

I have two matinees at Gypsy next week, had two mats at Spring this week. This is good because I'm hoping to register for the NYU Summer Voiceover session. Here's the class -- Voiceover: In the Booth. I'm realistic. I doubt much will come of it. But if I didn't try it after all the encouragement, I ...

What’s better than Samuel L. Jackson? Nothing, except Samuel L. Jackson AND videogames! Check out this cool list of actors that have provided voiceover work or cameo appearances to notable videogames like Grand Theft Auto, Command & Conquer, and Kingdom Hearts. Damn you, Spielberg, must yo...

I just this week caught up with two shows on cable: The Tudors (2007) and Macbeth (2007) . Both productions have casting and/or directorial problems, which is hard to forgive when one is dealing with such well-known stories. I know that I read about the shortcomings of Macbeth yonks ago when it was ...

In an unexpected development sure to rock the sentient-sportscar-voiceover world, Variety reports NBC has announced that it's had to make an 11th hour substitution in its casting of KITT for the network's soon-to-debut Knight Rider movie, rushing last-minute savior Val Kilmer (Val Kilmer!) into the ...