Voice-Overs

For some time, I've been meaning to upload some of the voice-overs I've done for WSBE Rhode Island PBS. But, because I see it as self-promotion and that's not one of my strong traits, it's not exactly been a priority.

Recording voice-overs is not part of my job, but it's convenient (and economical) for the station - and a treat for me. I love doing these! Most of the time, I write the copy, which is part of my job. That's a great advantage - I write exactly what needs to be said in the way I want to say it.

I fell into the role of auxiliary voice-over talent for WSBE quite by accident. One day several years ago, there was an emergency announcement that had to be recorded and played on the air. Our regular voice talent was not due in for days. So, I just wrote the copy and recorded the announcement. Hearing the spot on the air later, one of the station's producers asked, "Who's voice is that?" He sought me out to tell me he was impressed. 

After that, I was tapped periodically to do spots, even though we had an official "voice" of the station - Joanie Pfeiffer - who has a gorgeous voice. I mostly did the upbeat spots for kids programming, or the ones that had 20 seconds of copy to fit into 15 seconds of time, LOL, or when underwriters insisted on using the word "we" in their copy (I was adamant that OUR voice should not also be the voice of an underwriter) or when we just needed a voice style different from Joanie's sultry sophisticated one (not that I can't be sultry and sophisticated, too, ha). But when new president Bob Fish took over, he stated emphatically that he wanted a new station voice; that was the end of Joanie's contract and the start of one with Fish's friend from commercial radio, Gary DeGraide. In the meantime, I've continued to record some of our on-air spots.

Which brings me all the way back around to this: Finally uploaded and tested, my personal voice-over page is ready. I now invite you to indulge me and check out the voice-over samples on my Web site.