A London conference tackles women in music production, Gimlet Media is, like, really serious about that HBO of Audio thing, and your favorite AI assistant and mine, Siri, gets a new feature that will read you the news...Kinda. Association

Winter Hiatus

Dec 6th, 2017 3m 44s

This week's Use Your Voice is a quick note to explain that I am putting the show on hiatus until 17 January 2018. In the meantime, please go and follow me on Twitter @alison_pitt. You can also continue to hear me weekly on Priority One: A Rodde

Working with Waves DeBreath

Nov 29th, 2017 10m 33s

As you’re listening to this show, I’m actually travelling. It’s the week after Thanksgiving here in the States, and I’ve got places to be. You know, important stuff. For grown-ups. Because of that, I’m skipping the news, and we’ll pick up on th

Loudness, RMS, and Peak, Oh My!

Nov 22nd, 2017 19m 27s

It’s a podcast-palooza this holiday week: “Super-listeners” are the next big thing, Shortcut is a new open-source web app for sharing clips of podcasts on social media, and SoundCloud introduces a new metric for their platform, that measures al

If You Want an Editor, Prepare to Pay

Nov 15th, 2017 20m 8s

The Recording Academy publishes guidelines for producing hi-res audio, and a mysterious music production course has turned up on the web at a stunning 96% off…but where did it come from? I’m bringing you a few of the highlights from the Society

How I Got Started in Voiceover

Nov 8th, 2017 20m 1s

IBM tries – and fails – to put voice actors out of jobs, Google is bringing 3D audio to mobile devices, and Disney announces some powerhouses as the voices behind its upcoming Lion King remake. In podcasting news, Al Jazeera is experimenting wi

Apple Needs to Ditch the 5-Star System

Nov 1st, 2017 20m 22s

Adobe pushes some great new features for Audition CC, Voices.com upsets unionized voice artists with an expansion to their services, Spotify knows you’re listening to podcasts when you should be working, and LeVar Burton is out of legal trouble

Shouldn't Standard Pitch be Standard?

Oct 25th, 2017 17m 26s

There’s good news this week for voice artists who speak languages other than English, as Netflix continues its push for content globalization. Upwork releases a study that claims that 10 years from now, the majority of American workers will be

What Is It About 44.1kHz?

Oct 18th, 2017 17m 55s

Is Google upping their game on podcast delivery? CastBox aims to disrupt podcast discovery with its new transcribe-and-search feature, Amazon’s TV adaptation of the podcast “Lore” hits their streaming service, and the new Kindle comes with Audi

Leave Those "Ummms" Alone

Oct 11th, 2017 20m 10s

A sports audio company from the UK is blazing a trail for object-based audio broadcasting, Ford and Harman get together to create awesome audio for cars, Blue Apron makes a podcast of their own, and Gimlet Media wants to rule the podcasting wor

Music for Podcasts and Other Projects

Oct 4th, 2017 14m 31s

Anchor has secured $10 million in Series A funding for its growing audio social network, SAG-AFTRA has reached a tentative agreement with video game companies over contracts for voice actors, and Bruno Mars could send your kid to camp. How cool

How to Shrink a .wav

Sep 27th, 2017 17m 46s

SAG-AFTRA and The Actors’ Fund team up to help hurricane victims, Dolby Atmos is coming to the new Apple TV…at some point, and PRX’s Podcast Garage looks set to expand, but I’m not sure if that’s a good thing. SAG-AFTRA Foundation, SAG-AFTRA M

Anchor.fm Just Isn't for Me

Sep 20th, 2017 20m 57s

The IRS extends tax deadlines for those affected by hurricanes, Spotify’s already hired someone to replace Tom Calderone, and the Creative Arts Emmys celebrate excellence in voiceover. IBC’s highest honour goes to Dolby, object based audio is t

Hurricane Irma from the Inside

Sep 13th, 2017 11m 5s

Three weeks into a new podcast and I get derailed by a hurricane…This week is a little different because for the past week, my day-to-day has mainly been living through Hurricane Irma. I promise I’ll get back to my normal format next week, but

Upwork's 20% Fee is 100% Worth It

Sep 6th, 2017 17m 49s

There’s relief available for performing artists affected by Hurricane Harvey, Morgan Freeman is honored by the Screen Actors’ Guild, and Spotify’s Head of Video and Podcasting leaves the business. Podcast tech company Art19 raises $7.5 million

It's All About the Decibels, Baby!

Aug 30th, 2017 16m 22s

I’ve got the winners and the super-winners from the Academy of Podcasters Awards, presented at last week’s Podcast Movement conference. The BBC World Service is getting twelve bigger, and audiobooks for dogs is somehow a thing now. This week’s

Trailer

How to Use Your Voice

Aug 23rd, 2017 7m 34s

In this inaugural episode of Use Your Voice, I'm introducing you to what you can expect from this show, and telling you how you can get involved! Support me! patreon.com/alisonpitt Email me! [email protected] Follow me! @alison_pitt