Narrations, Voice-Overs, and other geek stuff
In my day to day goings-on, I'm a computer security professional. I've been doing this for about 10 years now, and I've managed to collect lots of letters that I put behind my name... like CISSP, CISA and EnCE. I'm always working on more of those as well.
Since an early age, though, I've always had in interest in voice-overs. Many years ago, when I worked as a telephone man, customers used to ask me to do the on-hold recordings for their businesses. In other jobs, people would often ask me "Are you on the radio?", and tell me that my voice sounds like it should be.
So - a year or so ago, I decided to buy a cheap little microphone and see what I could do with it (along with the help of Adobe Audition). I went over to LibriVox - an open source community that narrates books that are no longer in copyright - and started looking for a book I could narrate. While at the forums, I saw a post from a guy named Tony who runs a Science Fiction podcast. He was looking for narrators. Being somewhat of a sci-fi fan, I went to his website - www.starshipsofa.com - and asked him if I could give a crack at doing a narration.
That's where it all began. Now, I'm trying to do some voice-overs for commercials and such as well. I also do some narration from time to time for www.escapepod.org - another Science Fiction podcast. I doubt I'll ever do this for a living, but I sure do enjoy it in my spare time.
Most of the voice-over work I do is for StarShipSofa. It's one of the best Sci-Fi podcasts around. So good, in fact, that a lot of people are making a push to nominate it for a Hugo award.
A fan of the podcast put up a great blog post that talks about it all. Give it a read HERE, and help the StarShipSofa podcast gain Hugo award momentum!
