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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

Is Google using Fiverr now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWvKAYKlnnM
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 11:44 pm Post subject:

Even Fiverr isn't using Fiverr.

And here's the copy:

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Join the Millions of successful people that are using fiver to get things done!
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Browse. Buy. Done!

Actors please note, fiverr is pronounced like the word "five" with an "err" sound at the end. It's a play on the slang term for a five dollar bill... example: can you loan me a fiver.

The deal actually sucks, but it's 70 times more than a fiverrrr.
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Bruce · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 8:15 am Post subject:

Google seems to like "natural" voices for a lot of their videos. In fact many of their videos have been voiced or hosted by their employees.

Hey, it gives the new kids in the business a nice credit. What they do with it? Who knows.

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ccpetersen · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 11:57 am Post subject:

Some of the voices on the free version of Spotify were awful, too. They sounded like 17-year-olds on helium. Hard to take them seriously, but once I bought a subscription, the voices went awayyyyyy....
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DeadDillo · Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 5:53 am Post subject:

I always just assumed that one of the developers did the VOs.
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Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

...which would be disturbing, because this voice over sounds like somebody who doesn't really understand what they're talking about.
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Mike Harrison · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 6:43 am Post subject:

jsgilbert · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 6:42 pm Post subject:

There are guys who sound like that signed with agencies all over. I'm in intense techie land here in Silicon Valley and that's how lots of these Millennials talk naturally - or the other trend is that every sentence ends up, like Valley Girl talk, but lacking many of the other components of Valley Girl talk. I'm even hearing "overly enunciated, vocal fry, going up on the end of sentences" speak.
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DeadDillo · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:37 am Post subject:

Its the new world of "conversational" voice over.

I should put out a book for new VO artists on all these "techniques."
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Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 11:45 am Post subject:

ish....a different way of saying 'ick'
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Mike Harrison · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:04 pm Post subject:

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

The CEO of IBM uptalked her whole way through the joint Apple/IBM interview recently.

Yeah, everyone talks like that in their circles, but it's tone deaf to target audiences. Can you imagine if Brokerage Firm ads had VOs of guys who talk like they're really from the Tri-State area? Or Budweiser ads voiced by dudes from St. Louis?
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SkinnyJohnny · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:17 pm Post subject: