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Voice acting sure seems easy, huh? You just read words and get paid. Simple! Well, no. Here's a masterclass in how not to do voice work. Above is the English VO for PS2 tactical role playing game Chaos Wars, which was released earlier this month in North America. The voice work is rather unmotivated — though Hayatemaru and Hyoma are somewhat trying. Does sound horribly fan-dubbish — though fan-dubs probably wouldn't mispronounce "Akihabara." Whoever voiced the monster, though, is a genius. Best keee, keee, keee we've heard in a while. Oh, Yoichi's voice is all kinds of awesome, too.
The good news that it's possible to play through the game with the original Japanese voices and English subtitles. Make that, recommended.
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Let professional voice actors do the dialog in games, and skip the marquee celebs - that's the advice of Sony dialog manager Greg deBeer. Why? In an interview with Gamasutra's Brandon Sheffield, deBeer said he feels "hearing an identifiable celebrity voice takes you away from the [..] Read complete article
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Likely resulting from a combination of outdated technology and plain lack of interest, Sprint is pulling the plug on its Voice Command service. Voice Command affords users a web-based address book that provides an alternative means for placing voice calls to contacts. Tapping a few buttons to initiate a call from your address book can [...] [..] Read complete article
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If you could do the Duke Nukem voice, like really do it really well, you'd probably call people and say things like "Blow it out your ass". Well, that's pretty much what the voice actor behind Duke Nukem Jon St. John does! According to John: I often have friends ask me to place a [..] Read complete article
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As much as we love our QWERTY-equipped BlackBerry devices, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to reply to an email with your voice? A company called Jott certainly thinks so. Jott just finally released a public commercial version of their voice recognition software. Designed specifically for BlackBerry devices, including the 8800, 8300, and 8100, [...] [..] Read complete article
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Fun GPS voice hack… A custom voice file for Garmin Nuvi GPS units stylized “GLaGPS - Genetic Lifeform and Global Positioning System” via Waxy.
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Likely resulting from a combination of outdated technology and plain lack of interest, Sprint is pulling the plug on its Voice Command service. Voice Command affords users a web-based address book that provides an alternative means for placing voice calls to contacts. Tapping a few buttons to initiate a call from your address book can [...] [..] 
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