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Offline rbcp

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Cactusing Voice Talent
« on: May 02, 2006, 08:02:09 PM »
I came upon a site for voice talent a couple days ago.  And I noticed that it was really easy to submit work to voice artists.  All I had to do was submit my request and it went out to hundreds of people who do professional voiceover work.  I didn't know they'd send me free samples, though!  I submitted a rather generic script for a fake company's voice menu system, but I made the company name Cactus Enterprises.  I got nearly 200 replies, most of them with attached mp3 samples.  Here are the results:

Cactus Enterprises

So after giggling uncontrollably over making over 100 people say the word "cactus" I decided to try it again.  Only this time my script said, "Thank you for calling Phone Losers of America! Home of PLA Radio and Cactus Solutions."

Unfortunately the bastards at the voice talent website edited out most of that intro so none of them said Phone Losers.  BUT a few were intuitive enough to notice that my company name was PLA Inc. so they added that in themselves.  Here are the results...

PLA Inc.

The good part is that most of them read all the names that I stuck in there.  You should listen to them all because there are some funny readings in there.  The samples are still coming in for this one but I think I'm going to turn off the ad tonight. 

Maybe I've found the next PLA Radio cohost...
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2006, 08:39:14 AM »
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2006, 09:18:22 AM »
I like how nearly every single of them mis-pronounce Zak's name.
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2006, 11:29:29 AM »
My ass, while engaged in intercourse, has fallen off due to laughter. this is so funny! CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS CACTUS!
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2006, 03:43:27 PM »
I love the "biggest, baddest, craziest stuff ever" guy.  If I had a business, he'd do my PBX menu.
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2006, 01:06:35 PM »
I never knew you sold watchamajiggers :o But seriously that is pretty damn cool. Could you post the website where you got all these voice guys to talk for you, I could think of so many things to use it for! And I never knew there were so many unemployed nutters on the internet, I might just try a career in voice talent.
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2006, 06:38:15 PM »
Yeah RBCP! Post the link, so that a bunch of morons can abuse it, then have it shut down!

  Brilliant idea!
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2006, 04:51:02 AM »
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/product-compint-0000230534-page.html

OMG CACTUS ENTERPRISES!

I think we should pay them a little "visit"
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2006, 06:33:52 AM »
http://www.cactustile.com

Look at all the neat things they have to put in your home!
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2006, 08:07:09 AM »
If they don't want to read "phone losers" they just gloss over it with "our company"?  Pussies.
I've done linear predictive coding to find characteristic similarities between actual digitized voice inputs... one of the voice samples appears to be Corey Feldman.
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2006, 08:41:19 AM »
I'm pressing "4" and it won't work!

I want to speak with Dino Allsman dammit! I'm gonna kick your ass!
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2006, 12:29:29 AM »
I couldn't get anyone to bite.. I guess i'm not realistic enough, could you reccomend some of the actors you've used?
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Re: Cactusing Voice Talent
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2006, 08:21:07 PM »
Who was the guy that did the first one on the "Cactus Enterprises" one? I am trying to get him on my job.
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