In the last episode of the season, I met Martin Whiskin to talk about how a voiceover artist makes a living, what goes into the work, and how a voiceover artist can help a business stand out from the crowd.

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Martin Whiskin is a voiceover artist who has lent his voice to Lego, RAF, Mercedes, NHS and BMW, to name a few, but his background is much more corporate and far less creative than voiceover.

He worked as a data manager for 20 years while trying to be a "rock star" and was made redundant around the same time he realized that he wasn't good enough to be a famous musician.

Martin was left looking at the skills he'd built up over the years during his time in bands, photography, design, videos etc., to see if any of those skills could be monetized. They couldn't! What was good enough for punk bands wasn't good enough to sell to businesses... but in a roundabout way, this led him to voiceover. Something that, having never had any plans to do anything even remotely like it, he is in love with.

Time Stamps:

03:13 Voice Actor? Voice Artist

03:54 They're not going to fire us, right? - Starting in Voice Over

06:59 The X-factor/BGT Guy

07:42 How being made redundant gave Martin the push he needed.

09:08 What skills does Martin use as a voiceover artist?

12:28 How to prepare for a new voiceover job?

14:25 Mic technique for podcaster/beginner voice over

16:29 What directions can clients give to help voiceover artists

19:05 How long will a voiceover job take

21:08 Martin's favourite job

22:59 Why it's better to get a pro to record the voiceover you need rather than record it yourself

31:57 What do they mean by a treated room? - talking about gear and equipment

36:53 Why networking is important to Martin

42:45 STEVE!!! Let me on your show!!!

46:10 The Questionaire

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This is the first epsiode of season two and I'm back with a whole new batch of interesting people.

I kick thing off with Kevin Jones, who is one half of the Gamer Parents Podcasts, alongside his wife, Joanne. The Gamer Parents Podcast includes discussions on games and their review and critique of the games they play on their live stream. They also rate each game they play in five categories that they know are important to gamer parents.

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Being surrounded by people that accept you, like you and encourage you to be you, and learning to love yourself and knowing others love you is the best feeling in the entire world. LGBTQ artist Mr Slade experienced this love and acceptance when he was 16 and now uses his music to give a little bit of that acceptance back to the gay community.

For me, I needed this interview, and that’s something that I didn’t realise until I was writing this episode description. I found that I suddenly had a connection to the queer kids who came before me. I learned a bit more about my own gay history, and while on the face of it, this is just an interview with a musician, under it all, there is gay 16-year-old me standing in disbelieve that I’m both so open and listening to someone and chatting with someone who’s music goes against every part of his catholic conservative upbringing

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04:43: Music is the constant in all of our lives.

06:25: Gay culture and mainstream media.

09:46: Aging in the gay community.

14:26 Mr Slade’s musical inspirations.

18:01: Finding yourself.

20:35: Deep dive into Mr Slade’s music.

35:12: The questionnaire

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Tom meets voice actor and writer Ashley-Casey Tyrrell who talks about how they became a voice actor and the processes behind voicing a character. We discuss some of voice actors' difficulties and ways to break into the industry. We also discuss their parody series "What really happens inside the House of Commons", which follows in the footsteps of such shows as Spitting image and Yes Minster

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AI is already here, whether we like it or not. In the art world, AI is present in the form of art generators like Midjourney and Dall-e. In communication, we can converse with Chat GPT, or open Notion and ask the AI to write an introduction. AI has now found its way into the podcasting world.

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About the episode

My guest today is Sam Plank, the founder and CEO of Dubb, an AI marketing tool for podcasters. We discussed the implications of recent AI models such as Dall-e, Stable Diffusion, and Mid Journey and ChatGPT. We also talked about the importance of AI alignment and reducing biases in AI models, as well as the implications of using AI in the legal profession. But, of course, there are concerns about the use of AI in our everyday lives: should we rely on it? Should we trust it? Is AI something more than just a tool and what are our lives going to look like along side AI?

If you have even a passing interest in AI, you don't want to miss this episode.

Sam previously worked as a data scientist at Facebook and Quora. He is a founding fellow at the Integrity Institute, a non-profit that advances the theory and practice of protecting the social internet. He holds a B.A. in Applied Math from Harvard University, where he was the managing editor of the Harvard Political Review and wrote an undergraduate thesis on the relationship between protest and social media.

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