It has been a busy and varied few weeks in my voiceover booth – I’ve recorded voiceover narrations, adverts and also some e-learning projects.

I’ve just used my ISDN connection to hook up with Voiceovers.co.uk to record a narration for a short video encouraging potential science under-graduates to consider applying to the Earth Sciences department at Cambridge University. When I’m recording on my own I often have to consult the client or various websites to check the correct pronunciation of words. In this session of course the clients were there to have the discussion with directly – which we did over homogenous (“homoj-en-us”) versus homo-jeen-ous. There was also a debate over “de-Code” versus “De-code”. Since the two clients couldn’t decide which they preferred (or was correct) we recorded both for safety. Still it made a change to have someone to have a dialogue with while recording.

In addition I’ve recorded more voice-over files for Healthcare Learning as part of an on-going professional development course for dental practitioners. This time we were looking at the implications for dentists treating patients with anaemia.

Plus there were more than a dozen scripts for another elearning module funded by a well known manufacturer of toothpaste.
I now know more than I would have thought was possible about electric tooth brushes – especially ones that provide an oscillating, rotating, pulsating action – it seems research shows that they work the best in providing optimum oral hygiene.
Furthermore, when it comes to flouride in toothpaste I now know that stabilised stannous flouride is the best all round for oral hygiene, avoiding sensitivity, fighting enamel erosion and combating halitosis. I’ve read it so many times that its convinced me to change the brand of toothpaste I use!

In terms of adverts – yesterday I provided Ashbourne Radio with a VO as “breathless running man” – I seem to do so little proper exercise these days that this role wasn’t too much of a stretch.  Just going downstairs to my booth was almost enough to make is sound convincing!

The Cambridge University Science project is being produced by Voiceovers
The dental e-learning projects are produced by Healthcare Learning
NK Motors ad – produced by Ashbourne Radio