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A slightly odd one. My company has recently transitioned to a new phoneline provider, and during the pigs ear meal they've made of it, we've lost our old voicemail "voices" /caller attendant. Our original ones were done a few years ago by an ex employee, they had just the right voice and, it sounded professional.
both the built in voice and the auto text to speak function that we now have, has what can only be described as a little bit of a "special" sound to it, it's hardly in keeping with a techy company. As i have little faith in the phone company to do anything about this, has anyone here ever had to employ the services of "voice-over" service for their phone system?? Are there other options im possibly missing?
ta all.
send him £415 & a script, you will have the baddest tech co. that no-one will mess wit
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blimey he must be hard up these days!
I had a browse through the other day, there's LOADS of famous & once famous people on there - some of them embarrassingly cheap! He's actually one of the most expensive that I could see. He clearly does them from a room in his house, in one take, not a bad earner considering each one must take less than 5 mins 😃
blimey he must be hard up these days!
You say that, but £415 for a few minutes work, and actors/celebrities have to pay the bills just like everyone else. DeNiro advertising cheap Korean SUV's, Snoop Dog advertising takeaways, Phillip Schofield advertising second hand cars.
blimey he must be hard up these days!
He’s worth about $160 Million. I wish I was struggling like him.
We had a project manager who had a lovely phone voice and ended up on about 90% of our customers' autoattendants. Even just recording into a laptop using a decent headset and free Audacity software can give good results.
There are specialist places that do it but you can get something decent from fiverr.com for not a lot of money if you just want someone to record some words in a clear nice voice. We've gone that route in the past when we needed non-English recordings and couldn't find a local employee willing to do it.
There's quite a few voice talent agencies out there so you should find something that fits your need/budget. Also depending on what system you have you might be able to get away with having the generic greeting and then just recording peoples names individually that then gets inserted at the right point rather than paying someone to do the same full greeting for each member of staff. Try www.theivrvoice.com, Allison is the voice of many phone systems although it'll be done with an american accent. Or try www.digitalbase.com they're US based but have voice talent across the globe so they'd have some people with English accents for you to choose from.
If you want to try a free option and have time on your hands google, amazon, IBM etc all have free trials of their text to speech engines with different voices but depending on what you can download from them you'd then need to convert the files to get them to what you need for your phone system.
Hire a professional.
awesome advice, cheers all
and LOL at Hols2
I would love any company that employed Matt Berry to do the voices.
But don’t you have to have focus groups to decide which regional accent most accurately reflects your brand values?
But don’t you have to have focus groups to decide which regional accent most accurately reflects your brand values?
<cue snob>yes, not the one where we are actually based..!<end snob>
I use Amazon Polly, which is part of AWS, to generate recordings for IVRs. It is free to use for the low volume needed and the voices are quite good imo. You have to spend a bit of time making sure timings, pauses, pronunciations etc. are ok.
The resulting files can be downloaded and then converted (if needed) before use.
One of the great advantages is that the service is always available, does not take holidays, get colds or leave the company!
Do you not just record a personal greeting with your own voice? I'd much rather that and it's what we do (professional services).
Or are you talking about one of those option systems?
Press 1) if your wombat requires oiling
2) if you're looking to be encased in a concrete and angel delight blend
3) for the barber shop
4) for accounts
5) for sales
All of which actually put you through to Janice in facilities (who is currently off with stress due to the fact her phone rings incessantly with irrelevant and irate callers who've been put through to the wrong team).
I've done loads of these. Paid voiceover work too. (You might have heard me being a slave owner on BBC bitesize history, voicing the Yorkshire.com Turner Trails audio guides, or the Sizewell B emergency training videos)
I'm described as "warm, clear, male, 30s-50s
Happy to voice something up for you if you like. I'll do it for a donation to an MTB advocacy group if you like it and if it's not for you I won't be offended.
Pro tip: Turn voice mail off.
People will learn very quickly to txt, WhatsApp, email or Slack where you are likely to answer the fastest. Save 10 mins of crap talk on every interaction and win back your day.
DeNiro advertising cheap Korean SUV’s, Snoop Dog advertising takeaways, Phillip Schofield advertising second hand cars
That has to be the steepest sliding scale of celebrity I've ever seen