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Minus 23, Minus 24, Minus 16: The Loudness Numbers in Your Briefs, and Who Wrote Them
ACX, EBU R 128, US and Australian broadcast, Netflix, Apple Podcasts and Spotify ads: every loudness target a voice actor meets, sourced.
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Voice Over Articles
SAG-AFTRA’s Animation Vote Closes Thursday. The Deal Says Your AI Replica Can’t Dub You Into Another Language Unless You Say Yes
SAG-AFTRA's TV animation deal raises minimums 3% a year, adds AI terms from live action and needs consent to dub a replica. Voting ends October 29.
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The Week in Voice: Three Goodbyes, a SONARR Win and Kindle+ Goes AI
Our Friday wrap: three farewells, Colin Cassidy's SONARR win, AI audiobooks in Kindle+, The Archers' studio and Andy García dubbing himself.
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Amazon Puts AI-Narrated Audiobooks in Kindle+ Automatically. Narrators on Royalty Share Deals Have to Wait
Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+ with audiobooks. AI-voiced books go in automatically; ACX narrators get in only on Pay for Production deals.
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The Archers Could Be Recorded Outside Birmingham for the First Time Since 1951. Its Cast Says the Savings Won’t Last Five Years
The BBC dropped a bespoke Archers studio at the Tea Factory. Judi Dench and 100+ cast and writers say leaving Birmingham threatens the show.
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A Judge Signals the Ex-NPR Host’s Voice Case Against Google Can Go On. Google Says the Voice Belongs to an Actor It Hired
A tentative ruling keeps all four of David Greene's claims over NotebookLM's male voice alive. Google says it hired a professional actor.
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Fremantle Press Is Casting WA Narrators for Three Children’s Audiobooks. Two of the Roles Are for First Nations Voices
Fremantle Press wants WA voice actors, new and established, for three children's audiobooks. A phone audition will do, and applications close October 31.
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Colin Cassidy Takes the Acting Prize at Australia’s First All-Audio Awards. Here’s Every SONARR Winner
Colin Cassidy wins Performance / Acting Excellence at Australia's first all-audio SONARR Awards. Here's every winner, from podcasts to voice-over.
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Netflix Says One Dubbed Language Takes 50 to 60 People. AI, It Says, Is Only a Tool
At a roundtable in Seoul, Netflix said each dubbed language needs 50 to 60 people across 36 dub languages, and called AI a tool for specialists.
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Indonesia Makes Voice Over an Official Creative Industry. Its Voice Actors Are Still Waiting on Royalties and AI Rules
Voice over is now one of Indonesia's 21 creative industries. The minister told students in Bandung. Royalties and AI rules haven't arrived yet.
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The Week in Voice: Two Goodbyes, Five Welsh Wins and a Cloned Batman
Our Friday wrap of the voice over week: two farewells, the VOX Awards, AI cloning Batman's Spanish voice, Voice123's new fee and Gromit's first words.
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