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The Last Human Voice PodcastThe Digital Skin TradeGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Imagine your digital self being stripped down and sold for parts. Far from science fiction, this is now an everyday fact for many performers. For Voice Artists, it means being asked to "sell" their voices as digital skins to be laid over another's performance. What's the appeal for brands and advertisers? What are the implications for artists' pay? What about recognition of your work? What protections do we need and what, if any, do we already have?We peel ba...
2026-01-2246 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastAn AI Dubbing MessGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Did people with ears hear it before it went out?That's the Question of the Week, as we consider Amazon's release of some much-loved animé titles, badly dubbed with AI-generated voices.Amazon withdrew them, but that doesn't mean the end of AI dubbing. So,is it possible to make AI dubbing work for performers? What do the unions, like Equity and SAG have to say on the subject?Mathilde's shares her own experience of being in the ro...
2026-01-0849 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastSTRIKE THREEGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. We like to open a season with a bit of industrial action and this season is no exception. At the time of recording, Equity UK was awaiting the results of an indicative ballot on strike action. Would performers be prepared to refuse to be scanned on set?The outcome on 18th December 2025 was a landslide. Turnout was high (over 75%) with a staggering 99% agreeing to strike if negotiations failed with PACT, the UK trade body which represents the majority of Film & TV companies.
2025-12-2545 min
The Voiceover Social80: The Home Studio Booth Build with Emily JardineJoin us for a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at building the perfect voiceover home studio recording booth with the multi-talented Emily Jardine! We also catch up with Annette Rizzo from Equity's Audio Committee to find out what Equity have been up to lately.When Emily moved house, she didn't just replicate her old booth setup. Instead, she embarked on a carefully planned journey to create her dream recording space. In this episode, we dive deep into every aspect of that process, from the initial planning stages through to the finished studio.We explore why...
2025-10-071h 00
Doom GenerationGrease (1978): "So is the grease from the chicks?!"After a summer of lovin' the T Birds and the Pink Ladies are back at Rydell High for their senior year. Kenickie (Jeff Conaway) and the boys (Kelly Ward, Michael Tucci, Barry Pearl) greet Danny Zuko (John Travolta) after being apart and Rizzo (Stockard Channing) and the Ladies (Dinah Manoff, Jamie Donnelly) arrive to rule the school. Meanwhile Frenchy (DiDi Conn) is tasked with showing new student, SANDY (Olivia Newton-John) around her new school. After everyone catches up through song, the kids (HA) go about their semester breaking up and making up. Principal McGee and her assistant Blanche (Eve...
2025-06-071h 11The Last Human Voice PodcastSeason 2 Finale: Wins, Fails and PredictionsGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. We bring Season 2 to a close with some reflections on the long-running soap opera that is our collective relationship with AI.Each of us chooses what we consider to be a Win in the saga so far, as well as one Fail and one Prediction.In the best soap opera tradition we have heroes and villains, school bullies, an evil twin, a dream sequence, and a cat called Cyrano.
2025-04-2456 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe Commons Report: British Film and High-End TVGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. A brand new Government report has landed. Same old, same old? We think not!The Report into British Film and High-End Television has been published by UK House of Commons' Culture, Media and Sport Committee. At more then 100 pages, it's not a quick read, so we've gone in first for you.We focus in on what it says about IP and the impact of AI, picking through our highlights of the Report's conclusions and recommendations.Listen to f...
2025-04-1055 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe Paris AI SummitGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The third international AI Summit has graced the Grand Palais in Paris. Mathilde was the recipient of a golden ticket and can therefore spill the beans on what actually happens at these global summits.What was it like to be an invited guest, milling about with tech bros and world leaders? What - if anything - do summits like these achieve?And, most importantly, how did Mathilde end up as part of President Macron's security detail?
2025-03-2853 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastIs the UK Really Open for Consultation? with Tim CarterGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Late in 2024, the UK government launched a Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. The questions - all 47 of them - asked a range of questions, including whether UK Law should allow free access to protected content for AI training. It also made it clear that it had a preferred option. What it probably hadn't anticipated was the swell of public opinion, even as the consultation closed.In the LHV Guest Spotlight this time is Tim Carter, a solicitor turned te...
2025-03-1354 min
The Voiceover Social73: Voicing Animations: guest Kate Harbour with hosts Rob Bee and Helen BeeVoicing Animations with Kate HarbourThis month Rob and Helen Bee are joined by the legendary Kate Harbour – a voice actor with more iconic credits than you can shake a script at.You’ve heard her in Bob the Builder, Shaun the Sheep, Timmy Time, Octonauts, The Secret Show, Chip and Potato, Go! Go! Cory Carson… Honestly, the list goes on, and if we tried to name everything, we’d be here all day. She’s also a master of radio drama (Doctor Who, Robin of Sherwood), comedy (Puckoon, The Big Ben Theory), and Netflix dubs – basically, if y...
2025-03-0448 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastSynthetic Nostalgia with Dr Jenny Kid & Dr Eva Nieto McAvoyGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In Season 1, we delved into what happens to our digital remains once our mortal bodies are well and truly shuffled off. This time, we take a different posthumous angle with heritage researchers Dr Jenny Kidd and Dr Eva Nieto MacAvoy from the University of Cardiff. Museum professionals and curators care deeply about authenticity, truth, community and connection – much like artists. For Jenny and Eva, the ethics of weaving technology into our memory of the past is at the heart of their work...
2025-02-2746 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike, with Tim FriedlanderGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Another year, another strike. On our very first episode, back in 2023, we covered the actors’ union strike in the US. We return to the topic as SAG AFTRA is leading what may become the longest strike in the history of the union. To give it its full name - The Interactive Media (Video Game) Strike.The main sticking point? Yep - AI.Tim Friedlander, voice-actor and President of NAVA, the National Association of Voice Actors, makes a welcome return to take us...
2025-02-1255 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastWhat's in a Voice? With Dr Jennifer Chubb & Dr Peter HarrisonGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The use of AI to enhance actors' accents in the film The Brutalist has made headlines and drawn considerable negatve backlash.Away from sensationalist takes and knee-jerk reactions, the response may be less about the use of AI and more about the transparency of where and how it is used. Sociologist Dr Jenn Chubb and Law Professor Dr Peter Harrison from the University of York are currently leading research in this very area. They join us to...
2025-01-301h 01
Mic Rider Deep Talk#18 KI Regulierung UK vs EU - Deeptalk Crossover-Folge mit dem "the last human voice" PodcastHeute unterhalte ich mich mit den wunderbaren Menschen aus dem "the last human voice" Podcast. Eine uneingeschränkte Hörempfehlung für alle, die über den deutschsprächigen Tellerrand hinausblicken und erfahren wollen was in Großbritannien so alles zu dem Thema passiert. Wir besprechen was seit dem Beschluss des AI Acts so alles passiert ist und ob es den sogenannten "Brüssel-Effekt" wirklich gibt. Wir diskutieren erste Klagen im deutschsprachigen Raum und meine Gesprächspartner geben uns einen Einblick wie die neue britische Regierung mit dem Thema KI und Urheberrecht umzugehen gedenkt. Bleibt nur noch die...
2025-01-2958 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastTax Relief to the Rescue! with Sam Radclyffe of GalateaGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Ah, the excitement of Tax Return season!In this episode, we double down on the joys of Tax. Specifically, we're talking about tax relief in film productions. Why? Because, in a departure from the previous government, Labour recently introduced new rules that mean AI-related costs are subject to tax relief.Sam Radclyffe is an Entertainment & Media Rights Executive, Producer and Entrepreneur. We've spoken with Sam before in our episode, "Own your Clone", in his role as founder of Galatea, a Digital...
2025-01-1647 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastPlus Ça Change: Will a New Government Bring Change? With Nicola Solomon from the Creators' Rights AllianceGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Between 2020 and 2024, the UK has had four Prime Ministers and a long running game of Musical Chairs in the relevant government departments. What we still don't have is a unified, coherent policy on AI and Artists' Rights. In this episode, our guest is Nicola Solomon, a solicitor, consultant on policy and law in the creative industries and, until recently, the Chair of the Creators' Rights Alliance.What progress has she seen in the last few years and what hope has that given her fo...
2025-01-0150 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastWho Cares About Artists When the World Is on Fire?Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Dr Mathilde Pavis has questions. A lot of questions. Which she likes to spring on her unsuspecting co-hosts. In the previous episode, Patrick Messe from United Voice Artists talked about the difficulty of engaging policymakers and regulators on Artists' Rights, when there are wars happening and governments collapsing.It's a fair question - and for artists and creatives of all types - an existential one: why, with so much happening in the world, should we care about artists and campaign for t...
2024-12-1938 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe Crossover, with Patrick Messe of Mic Rider Deep TalkGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. One of our previous guests, Patrick Messe, of United Voice Artists returns for a crossover episode between The Last Human Voice and Mic Rider Deep Talk, Patrick's own podcast.We talk about the Brussels Effect, kicking off our chat in Germany, which allows us to do some Compare and Contrast. What impact has the EU AI Act had since its introduction in the summer of 2024?What can we learn from the first legal actions testing the law in...
2024-12-051h 01The Last Human Voice PodcastNot in My (Digital) Back YardGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Mathilde hijacks this episode with a question directed at co-hosts, Marcus and Annette. No warning. No prepping.They hesitate, they prevaricate, they talk about moving to Alaska. But do they answer the question?You'll have to listen to find out.
2024-11-2025 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastWhat is Data Mining and Why Should We Care?Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Most discussions about AI start with topic of "data mining". But how many of us are clear about what it is and how it works? And how can we be expected to care about something if we don't understand what it is?Even leaders, decision makers, artists, creatives - all of us - need a safe space to go and learn about it without the pressure or judgement.This episode is that safe space.
2024-11-0749 min
The Voiceover Social71: Behind The Audiobook with guests C.K. (Caimh) McDonnell and Elaine Ofori. Hosts Rob Bee and Helen BeeThis month we’re talking to an author and publisher/manager about audiobooks and how theyapproach to audiobooks. We cover how they chose narrators for their books, and how audiobooks affect the writing and management of their business. We also have the long awaited re-introduction of ‘News From Equity’ with Annette Rizzo. C.K. (Caimh) McDonnell isthe paranormal pen name of Irish bestselling author Caimh McDonnell. He is a former stand-up comedian and TV writer who now spends all his time writing books as his dogs don’t like it when he leaves the house. ...
2024-11-0547 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastIs AI Breaking the News? With Pete Pachal from MediacopilotGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In the first episode of Season 2, we look at the role of AI in Journalism. Are journalists facing a vicious cycle of generating click bait to drive revenue to keep media companies afloat to pay journalists to generate more click bait? Is AI making it worse - or might it offer a more positive future for journalism?Our guest, Pete Pachal of Media CoPilot is of the latter opinion. He is confident that AI can liberate journalists from the more onerous, less rewarding tasks t...
2024-10-2455 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastAI & Copyright Law: Can it protect Creatives, with Dr Andres GuadamuzGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Copyright Law is in our sights as we reach our Season 1 finale. Dr Andres Guadamuz is a Reader in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Sussex and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of World Intellectual Property. He is also the brain and pen behind the online publication ‘TechnoLlama’.He joins us to answer some of our many questions about what protection Copyright can - and cannot - offer artists and creatives. What does "Fair Use" really mean? What co...
2024-07-2459 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastDigital Remains: Your Rights After Death, with Dr Edina HarbinjaGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Let's talk about death. Have you considered how you want your digital remains (yes, that's the correct term) to be treated after you're gone?Photos on Facebook, TikTok videos, LinkedIn profiles, demos, self-tapes, emails sent and received; everything you have ever uploaded or shared, whether personally or professionally, will digitally outlive you.Dr Edina Harbinja is a Reader in Media and Privacy Law at the University of Aston. She is a pioneer and expert in her field and author o...
2024-07-1056 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastOwn Your Clone, with Sam RadclyffeGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. What does it look like to do business with clones in a way which puts the artist at the centre of the deal? That's not just our question, but the question posed by Sam Radclyffe. Sam is an experienced entertainment and media rights executive, film producer, and entrepreneur. His answer is Galatea Holdings.Galatea is a Digital Twin Library and Management Company, which proposes a different business model from the ones we've seen so far. The aim is to partner wi...
2024-06-2756 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastBig Tech, Big Deals, Small ChangeGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In this episode we take a look at very recent deals that tech giants have made with media and content platforms to train their AI models, with consent. We are asking: is the tide turning for training AI towards a licensing model, and away from crawling the web in the wild? In recent months Open AI has made deals with at least 11 companies, to access their content for the purpose of training AI technologies. Those companies include Shutterstock, Le Monde, News Corp, The Fi...
2024-06-1355 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastGetting Organised: The UVA Story, with Patrick MesseGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The story of UVA (United Voice Artists) is a lesson in organising, not just for Creative Workers, but for everyone affected by AI - which is to say, Everyone.Co-President, Patrick Messe, explains the urgent need for representation that brought together unions, guilds and other professional bodies, ahead of the EU AI Act. Their cross border collaboration ensured their voices were heard by politicians and legislators.From France to Turkey, Poland to South America, they have focussed on their shared purpose o...
2024-05-3053 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe Right to Deepfake, with Dr Dimitrios KagiarosGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Should the creation of Deepfakes be a protected right under the banner of Free Speech?How do existing laws balance our right to Free Speech with our Right to Privacy?Dr Dimitri Kagiaros is Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Durham and an expert on the regulation of Freedom of Expression. He has written extensively on the topic and his work has influenced changes in the law to preserve freedom of expression.Most recently, he has collaborated...
2024-05-1658 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastDoes AI Mean What It Says? With Dr Jumbly GrindrodGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. This time, we get a philosopher's take on AI.Jumbly Grindrod is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Reading. He specializes in the philosophy of language and epistemology, which refers to the theory of knowledge itself.Does it - or should it - matter to us whether AI or a human being is talking, writing or engaging with us?What happens when we start regarding Artificial Intelligence as sentient or human? And does generative AI bring anything n...
2024-05-0255 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe Sara Poyzer Twitter Storm, Marvin Gaye's Missing Music and Your Digital AfterlifeGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In this episode, we select from the latest AI stories that have grabbed the headlines or slipped by stealth into our feeds. From the miscommunication that made Mamma Mia actor, Sara Poyzer, trend on Twitter, to the discovery of Marvin Gaye's long lost demos, we look at legislation, regulation and how artists and creative performers are responding to the relentless pace of AI development.When - if ever - is it acceptable to put words in someone's mouth? Can Voluntary Codes provide sufficient pro...
2024-04-1759 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastIs Ethical AI Good for Business? With Jamie Anderson & Ben FieldGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Much of the fear generated by AI is about theft; the companies that own the technology will steal your image, replicate your voice and replace you with an AI version of you that takes your job.But perhaps it doesn't have to be that way.Since their collaboration on the documentary "Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted", Ben Field and Jamie Anderson have continued to work together under the banner of their production company, Deep Fusion Films. Their pioneering use of AI, coupled w...
2024-04-0450 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastGerry Anderson: A Life Resurrected, with Jamie Anderson & Ben FieldGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. How would it feel to see a digital deepfake of someone you love who has died? What would you need to consider before agreeing to create it?Jamie Anderson and Ben Field can answer both of these questions and more. "Gerry Anderson: A Life Uncharted" is their 2022 documentary about the life and work of Gerry Anderson, TV and film producer, director, write and technical pioneer - and Jamie's father.Together, Ben and Jamie crafted a fascinating and often moving documentary fro...
2024-03-2155 min
A Podcast?!32 - 2024 Oscars React : I'm Just KenTheresa and Mitchell react to the 96th Academy Awards/ 96th Oscars/ 2024 Oscars. They stayed up past their bedtime to weigh in on the highly anticipated award show.
Ryan Gosling stole the night with his outstanding performance of I'm Just Ken.
Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, Anatomy Of a Fall, Maestro, Past Lives, American Fiction, Zone of Interest, The Holdovers, Poor Things, Barbie
Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, Sandra Hüller, Annette Bening, Carey Mulligan
Emily Blunt, Danielle Brooks, America Ferrara, Jodie Foster, Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Bradley Cooper, Colman Domingo, Paul Giamatti, Cillian Murphy, Jeffrey Wright
Sterling K. Brown, Robert De N...
2024-03-1154 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastDr Dominic Lees: Deepfaking Margaret ThatcherGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Dr Dominic Lees is an award-winning filmmaker and director. He is also Associate Professor of Filmmaking at the University of Reading, with a research specialism in deepfakes. In 2019, "Virtual Maggie" was among his projects, exploring how AI technology could be used to resurrect Margaret Thatcher for a contemporary drama called "Rebel Bus".Dr Lees joined us for an in-depth discussion of the practical and ethical questions raised by digital deepfakes. How far has AI come since 2019? What creative tensions can result from using tec...
2024-03-0656 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe SAG-AFTRA Deal, Part 2Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Who is going to own your clone? Who gets to control your digital double after you're dead? And what kind of deal can unions do for the departed?In the second of two episodes dedicated to unpicking the SAG-AFTRA Deal, we move on from the rules and requirements for the creation and use of "employment-based replicas". These are replicas tied to specific motion pictures.Our focus this time is on "independently created digital replicas": those that have been created by t...
2024-02-2248 min
What the MEpisode 30 - Judge Annette RizzoThe 30th episode of “What the M” features the Honorable Annette M. Rizzo. Judge Rizzo was gracious enough to drop by to discuss mortgage foreclosure mediation programs, how the model was developed for courts, the success rates seen by these programs, and how the model program spread throughout the United States.Judge Rizzo served as a Judge in the First Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 16 years, with the majority of that time spent in the Civil Major Jury Trial Program. Prior to her tenure on the bench, she worked in both the publi...
2024-02-1651 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastThe SAG-AFTRA Deal, Part IGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. On the 14th of July 2023, the American actors’ union ‘SAG-AFTRA’ joined the strike already begun by the WGA (Writers' Guild of America.) The dispute with the AMPTP (Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers) was about pay, working conditions and AI.An interim deal was struck in November and approved by SAG-AFTRA members on the 5th of December 2023.So, what's in the deal and what do we think of it?
2024-02-1538 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastYvonne Muinde: Painting with AIGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Our guest in this episode is Yvonne Muinde, an award-winning visual effects artist whose credit list takes in a range of iconic films, including the Planet of the Apes, The Hobbit, and Avatar. An established fine artist, Yvonne's work has featured in several collections, including the The Chemistry of Color Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art. She currently works and creates out of her studio, Ikweta Arts, located in Nairobi, Kenya.Yvonne sha...
2024-02-0153 min
The Last Human Voice PodcastThe SAG-AFTRA Digital Voice Replica AgreementGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. “A ground-breaking, innovative new contract”; that’s the headline for the deal negotiated between SAG-AFTRA, the US Actors’ union and Replica, the company using AI to create digital voice replicas.What does the deal cover? What does it omit? As the first agreement of its kind, what could it mean for actors and performers both in and outside the US? And is it truly “ground-breaking”?In this episode, we talk through the details and sum up what we believe to be the pros and...
2024-01-1839 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastShort Talks: Do I Want To Be A Clone?Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. What does it mean to have your voice or performance cloned? Is there a difference between cloning and synthesis?If I agree to the creation of my digital double, do I have any say in what it does next? And wherever it goes, will the Law be running to catch up?Put simply, do I want to be a clone?
2024-01-0420 minThe Last Human Voice PodcastShort Talks: What Am I Worth?Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The phrase "Know your worth" is often repeated among artists, performers and other freelance workers who have the responsibility for negotiating their own rates and terms of employment for every job they do. But how do you go about valuing yourself and your work? And how do you then convey that to an employer, especially in a landscape where cost, rather than creativity, seems to be the driving force?That's the focus of this shorter episode, discussing how we put a p...
2023-12-2114 min
The Last Human Voice PodcastCall My AgentGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Agents are the hard-negotiating, multi-tasking, contract-savvy industry experts, working to match the Talent they represent with paying clients. In what can be long contractual chains, agents provide a layer of protection for performers, who trust them to act in their best interest.Our guest this time is Daniel Hinchliffe, managing director of the Soundcheck Group which includes a UK talent agency for actors and performers in theatre, tv, film and radio and also looks after directors and choreographers.Daniel also happens...
2023-12-071h 04
The Last Human Voice PodcastLegislating AI. With Dragos TudoracheGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act has been described as the most ambitious attempt to date at creating a legal framework for AI.We are joined this time by Dragos Tudorache, Member of the European Parliament, Vice-President of the Renew Europe Group and - as one of two Rapporteurs leading on the proposed Act - a key figure in policy making. What is the role of a Rapporteur? What does it mean to regulate or legislate for AI? What is different about t...
2023-11-231h 05
The Last Human Voice PodcastBuyouts 101Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. What does the term "Buyout" mean? What's the best way to respond to buyout requests from clients?And if you've agreed to a buyout, does that mean you consent to any and all uses - even to AI imitations of your voice/performance without additional consent or payment? In a discussion that ranges from fertiliser to Freedom of Contract, taking in Spandau Ballet, travel agents and Cannibalism on the way, we look at the good, the bad and the meaningless of the te...
2023-11-091h 08
The Last Human Voice PodcastMoral Rights 101Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In this episode, we talk about performers’ moral rights. What are they? Who is entitled to them? And can they help performers and other creatives to protect themselves and their work from potential AI abuses?
2023-10-2638 min
The Last Human Voice PodcastDragging AIGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. How celebrated artist Jake Elwes is queering AI data sets and challenging big tech to think about gender, cultural bias and ethics in data mining through their creative practice.For more on Jake and their work, visit: https://www.jakeelwes.com/
2023-10-1255 min
The Last Human Voice PodcastA United FrontGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. How unions are taking active steps to champion artists and performers who are facing job displacement and replacement by AI. We speak to Liam Budd, Industrial Officer for Audio and New Media within Equity , the British union for creative workers
2023-10-0557 min
The Last Human Voice PodcastThe Artist's DilemmaGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. For Artists, AI offers an exciting toolkit - particularly tools for performance synthesis. But alongside the creative opportunities looms a potential threat to their creative futures. Annette, Mathilde and Marcus talk with composer, musician and technologist, Sarah Angliss, about her integration of technology and music and her experiences of working with AI. Sarah considers some of the ethical dilemmas presented by AI and also tells us why we've been here before. Surprisingly, the answer involves clog dancing...
2023-09-2750 min
The Last Human Voice PodcastPicketing HollywoodGet in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Why have America’s actors and writers gone on strike? And is why AI so important in the biggest Hollywood artists' strike since 1960?Tim Friedlander is founder of the National Association of Voice Artists (NAVA). Tim chats with Marcus, Mathilde and Annette about current events in the US.He explains what has led SAG-AFTRA and the Writers' Guild of America (WGA) to take action. Who is striking and why and what are the possible outcomes for actors and wr...
2023-09-1844 min
How Do You Say That?!Annette Rizzo: The one with the Singing Fanfare!In this week’s episode of “How do you Say That?!”, Annette Rizzo joins Sam and Mark to talk about medical scripts, being pushed out of your comfort zone and how character reads can inform your corporates! Annette's a member of the Equity Audio Committee so we discuss what union membership can do for you.We’d love you to join in and send us your version of one of the reads in today’s show – just pop it onto an mp3 and send it to podcast@britishvoiceover.co.ukScript 1Thank you for voluntee...
2023-03-1034 min
How Do You Say That?!Episode 7 - Annette RizzoShort trailer for Episode 7 of "How Do You Say That" featuring Mark Ryes, Samantha Boffin and Annette Rizzo.
2023-03-0800 min
Resilienderung - Resilienz: Mut zur Veränderung entwickeln82. Starke Entscheidungen und IntuitionEntscheidungsschwach? Vielleicht ist der innere Kampf zwischen Kopf und Bauch der Grund.
Nein, das „Bauchgefühl“ ist nichts esoterisches. Schon im Jahr 2005 schrieben Annette Bolte von der TU Braunschweig und Thomas Goschke von der TU Dresden in ihrer Studie „On the speed of intuition“, dass Intuition keine „mystische“ Fähigkeit ist: Intuitive Entscheidungen bauen auf vorhandenem Wissen, das unsere Entscheidungen und Urteile auf unbewusster Ebene steuert (ein paar Studien dazu sind weiter unten zitiert).
Und schon Albert Einstein sagte „Das intuitive Gehirn ist ein heiliges Geschenk und der rationale Verstand ist ein treuer Diener. Das Problem ist nur: Wir hab...
2023-02-1723 min
A Turn of Events™Listful Living: Battle Burnout And Stress With Intentional List Making with Paula Rizzo.We had a great time with Paula Rizzo talking about l Living: Battle Burnout And Stress With Intentional List Making.A best-selling author and Emmy-award-winning television producer for nearly 20 years, Paula has produced health, wellness, and lifestyle content with a range of top experts, including JJ Virgin, Jillian Michaels, and Deepak Chopra. Paula is the founder of the productivity site ListProducer.com and best-selling author ofListful Thinking: Using Lists to be More Productive, Highly Successful and Less Stressed, which has been translated into 15 languages and was featured as one of Oprah.com’s “Self Help Books That Actu...
2021-11-0940 min
The Voiceover Social50. The NegotiatorRates. It’s a constant question - are we quoting high enough? Are we quoting TOO high? Will we lose work if we push for usage? How do we convince clients we’re a better prospect than someone off Fiverr who’ll do it on the cheap? Too often, voiceovers feel like they're on the back foot in the conversation, so in this live episode we’ve convinced expert negotiator Simon Horton to help us change the balance of power and improve relationships between voiceovers, producers, agents and casting directors alike.
Also in this episode:
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2021-11-011h 02
Soundtrack CityGrease Is the WordPART 1 of our 2nd birthday episode is HERE. Throw on your vintage black jacket and sit back with a frosty chocolate milkshake because we are discussing the soundtrack to Grease from 1978! We delve into the history of the show, from that little stage in Chicago to one of the most successful musical films of all-time. We also speculate just what happened between Rizzo and Zuko when they dated, we find out why Frenchy randomly asks about psoriasis, and we *finally* solve the mystery: just WHO is Annette???
Check out PART 2 of this epic episode (epic-sode?) right after...
2021-09-123h 00
The Voiceover Social47. The One Voice Conference 2021As the official podcasters at the One Voice Conference we are delighted to bring you this jam packed hour of highlights, quite a lot of swearing, and all these wonderful people:
Keynotes - Rory Bremner and Jess Robinson
Continuity - Pete Nottage and Danny Cowan
Africa’s VO Industry - Emeka Onunkwo
Agents Panel – Natalie Hill (Excellent Talent) Katie Berkes (VO Gallery)
Radio Imaging – David Wartnaby and Juliette Nicholls (Pineapple Audio)
Radio Rates – Annette Rizzo (Equity)
TTS/AI – Sophie Hind (Voiceworks.ai), Rolf Veldm...
2021-09-011h 06
The Voiceover Social28. The Mid-Atlantic AccentHere it is! The breakdown of the Mid-Atlantic accent we've been promising you for MONTHS. We have nailed down exactly what the term used to mean versus what it means now, as well as how to do it - and why it might be time to consider adding it to your repertoire. Huge thanks to the ear bogglingly informed accent coach's accent coach Erik Singer for his contribution, as well as super-pros Juliette Gray, Julie Ann Dean, Peter Baker and Patrick Poletti for sending us their interpretation of the Mid-Atlantic brief.
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The Disco, Funky and Soulful House SessionsThe August Soulful House SessionTracklisting:1) Pray for More feat Annette Taylor - This Time Baby 2012 (Dave Doyle Remix)2) Booker T feat Dilys - Too Bad (NASSAU Full Love Mix)3) Rachel Claudio & Nicolas Vaultier - Miscommunicate (Doll Combers Intergalactic Mix)4) Ricky Diciotto & Kenny Carpenter feat Wendy Lewis - Universal Dreamers (Mark Di Meo & Tony Loreto Remix)5) Random Soul - Music Inside (Scott Diaz 2 in 1 Remix)6) Fabio Tosti & Michael Proctor - Shine (Spen, Irvine Madden & Tommy Davis RE Construction)7) LOSH - Nothing Can Come Between Us (Grant Nelson Classic Mix)8) Steve K & Anna Rizzo - Second Time (Shane D Remix)9) Deep City Soul feat Jacqui...
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