As The Global Leaders In Voice Acting Gather In Beverly Hills, AI Takes A Back Seat By Doug Melville, Feb 16, 2026, 06:50pm ESTFeb 17, 2026, 04:18pm EST Have AI voices taken over, yet? I’m not so sure. In a town historically built on images and looks, for one special night in Beverly […]
“Pop” Culture: The Explosive Truth About Your Breath! By Frank Verderosa, Essential Reading from the Archives I previously posted about booth noise. In this post we’ll look at another consistent issue with voice actors, and some ways to mitigate it. Plosives. P-pops. The big boom-boom. The sub-shaker. The booty-toot. Alright, I made some of […]
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I have always believed that voice acting is not merely a profession, nor even simply an art form, but a living continuum, one that stretches backward through centuries of oral tradition and forward into futures we are only just beginning to imagine. We are the stewards of something both ancient and astonishingly new. At […]
The Global Rise of the Voice Actor By Rudy Gaskins, 12/14/2025 In a city that has long mythologized the power of performance, the spoken word is preparing for an evening of long overdue recognition. On January 18, 2026, inside the Beverly Hilton, the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences will host the 12th annual Voice […]
Find Your Inner Ohmmmm: A Zen Guide to Headphone Impedance By Frank Verderosa, Essential Reading from the Archives If you’ve ever shopped for studio headphones and wondered why some say 32 ohm, 80 ohm, or 250 ohm, you’re not alone. Most voice actors hit this moment of panic: “Did I just buy the wrong […]
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Black Friday Plugin Essentials for Voice Actors By Frank Verderosa, Essential Reading from the Archives If you’re doing the kind of voiceover work where you are the last stop—mixed, mastered, and delivering final-ready audio—this post is for you. Keep an eye out in early 2026 for a series of classes built around these exact […]
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Great Things Start in Little Rooms By Tre Mosley, 11/30/2025 I’ll never be in anyone’s Hall of Fame. My high school has one, but I think you have to be ‘popular.’ My career started in a little room, a closet full of clothes. I’ve worked in a few closets, actually. Being in a little room […]
The Voices Behind the Stories We Love Step Into the Spotlight By Rudy Gaskins, 11/30/2025 The influence of the human voice is often felt long before it is recognized, long before the performer’s name appears in credits or on an awards-night screen. It can lift an animated character into emotional life, turn a commercial into […]
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The Voices We Never See: An Ode to the Art of Voice Acting By Rudy Gaskins, 11/16/2025 I have spent a lifetime listening. In darkened studios, on soundstages filled with nervous energy, and now, more often than not, in the quiet of home studios where the soft glow of a light over a copy […]
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Sample Rates: The What, Why & When for Voice Recording By Frank Verderosa, Essential Reading from the Archives The sample rate refers to the number of samples of audio carried per second, measured in Hertz (Hz). It determines the fidelity of digital audio reproduction, indicating how frequently the analog audio wave is sampled and […]
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