Bucky The Voiceover Superdog in the audio’connell Voiceover Talent studio

Here’s the thing about dogs and statistics.

Neither of them lie.

Dogs will let you know pretty quickly whether they like you or not – they can sense if you’re good people or someone who should be run off.

Statistics are what they are – accurate numbers are not emotional or loyal, they simply are what they are.

I bring this up because looking at my Instagram account, statistics showed  VERY clear that my followers love our family dog and my #studiobeast – Bucky The Voiceover Super Dog.

Everyone one of the IG (or any social media) posts that includes a picture of Bucky ALWAYS gets more likes that anything else I post.

You people are almost as obsessed with our happy, lovey dog as we are.

As he is my company’s #studiobeast – it occurred to me this week that I’ve not given my dog his due on the audio’connell Voiceover Talent website.

So….

Bucky now has his own web page on audioconnell.com

It’s a simple page that tell Bucky’s story and how much he means to us.

I created it because of how much he obviously means to all of you.

And that is a great feeling. Thank you.

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#studiobeast

Merry Christmas.

I hope 2025 brings you good things.

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According to the internet, in 1947 a person named H.C. Gipson was the first person to connect the word voice and over in writing to create the word voiceover.

So this Gipson person helped foster a humorous debate in my industry ever since.

Why?

Because if you look at the term in industry documents, books, on-line or even in logos, you’re likely to see variations of the word…so which is right?

• Is the word voice over (two words next to each other)?

• Is it hyphenated (as in voice-over)?

• Or is the correct spelling just the two words smooshed together: voiceover?

Logic would dictate we go back to our friend Gipson and how he (or she) wrote it…except

• The internet didn’t distinguish how the word was written by Gipson (so we lack a bit of clarity there)
• Aside from saying a person named Gipson wrote the word for the first time, an internet search about H.C. Gipson didn’t show any other information about this person (so that adds a lack of credibility there)

So the internet scores an “F” there.

Well there is always the dictionary!

The terms voiceover and voice over have distinctive meanings:

• Voice over is a noun referring to hiring talent for an audio project
• Whereas voiceover can function as an adverb or refer to the final product, like a movie’s narration

Well that settles it…except it doesn’t because when it comes to search engine optimization, you are STILL going to see all 3 spelling versions.

Over the decades, based on various “rules” of the day (bah!), I have written my company name as:

• audio’connell Voice Over Talent
• audio’connell Voice-Over Talent
• audio’connell Voiceover Talent

(The hard and fast “rule” here is that the “a” is always lower case. That’s a rule you can believe in! 😀 )

What’s the solution?

First, we don’t need a solution per se because nobody else but me thinks about this stuff.

Second, if you’re a voice talent with a web site, use all three and let Google figure it out.

Hope that helps but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t.

And it doesn’t matter. 😉

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The multi-state devastation left over from Hurricane Helene (which hit my state on September 27th) shattered countless lives.

Swannanoa residents walk through devastating flood damage from the Swannanoa River in western North Carolina on Sunday.
PHOTO CREDIT: Travis Long / The News & Observer / TNS via Getty Images

Some of the hardest hit communities include those on the western side of North Carolina, in and around Asheville, where rains and the resulting massive floods left many neighborhoods (and lives) in complete ruin.

While national, state and local agencies and volunteers are working to bring aid to those in need, this recovery will require a lot of time and even more money.

There will be no quick fixes or magic wands to solve the devastation.

To help make people aware of the problem and encourage donations for the recovery effort from Hurricane Helene, I’ve produced an audio public service announcement that is available for broadcast use, web use and podcast use to spread the word of where donations are accepted.

FREE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOLLOWING HURRICANE HELENE

(Please note, in this time audio pirating, no portion of the audio from this PSA may not be use for any other purpose than the purpose stated above). LINK HERE.

There are many worthwhile organizations that are accepting donations to aid the Hurricane recovery efforts. For the purposes of this free recording, I chose the following:

• The North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund – helping Hurricane ravaged communities recover from catastrophic damage – donate at nc.gov/donate
• Catholic Charities USA, where 100% of Hurricane gifts collected will go to support recovery efforts. Visit CatholicCharitiesUSA.org
• The American Red Cross, which is accepting Hurricane Helene donations at redcross.org/donate

If you are don’t work in broadcast or don’t produce a podcast, but know people who do, please feel free to share this post and this PSA with them.

Thanks.

This audio public service announcement (PSA) to support regional and national fundraising efforts for Western North Carolina – as a result of Hurricane Helene – is available for FREE all broadcast (Radio/TV/Cable), Podcasters and Webcasters who support this effort. No other use of this audio is permitted.

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Here’s a fun little break from the daily grind for you…

I want to create some t-shirts for audio’connell Voice-Over Talent to give out this summer. Obviously they are promotional and I want to feature the branding. I don’t have a million dollars to promote the logo so I have to keep the design simple to basically introduce the new branding to the world.

The following designs are for a white t-shirt although I could also do black and red as well. I just would like to see if there is a consensus on which design is most popular. So PLEASE VOTE in the comments below! Please only pick ONE. Thanks!

DESIGN OPTION #1:

audio’connell t-shirt design option #1

DESIGN OPTION #2:

audio’connell t-shirt design option #2

DESIGN OPTION #3:

audio’connell t-shirt design option #3

DESIGN OPTION #4:

audio’connell t-shirt design option #4

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I know it sounds silly, but I still get surprised that people read my web site.

Sure I know people visit the site, but when I talk to people that have read the site (cause there is a lot of stuff there), it’s a (pleasant) surprise.

I say all this because I got a call a few weeks ago from Garnet Williams who told me all about…me. He’d read about me and the stuff I’d done and asked if I would be a guest on his voice-over podcast, The Amivos and Friends Super Funtastic Happy Hour Podcast.

The ‘Amivos’ in the podcast (or VOdcast) refers to the 3 Amivos with include Garnet, Dave McRae and Mike Pongracz – all Canadian-based voice-over talents who decided to put together this show about voice talents.

They were under the impression that I was to be their first American guest on the 4-show old program (as their very first guest in Episode 3 was the great narrator and VO in TO co-mastermind Patrick Sweeney) but alas, they found that I have Canadian blood in me, even though I was born in the States. So I am an Americanadian.

The show was recorded while I was driving back from Pittsburgh, PA and I gotta tell you, that drive never went by so quickly. It was enormous fun because these guys clearly know how to run a great show and are fine interviewers. It reminded me about what was great about radio.

We talked so much that they had to leave out the fun story about how I signed with Tanya and Darryl at Ta-Da Voiceworks while at FaffCon in Ventura Beach and how I met Tanya as well as VO in TO co-mastermind Jodi Krangle at a Deb Monroe Voice-over class some years ago in Toronto (see, I get to hang out with ALL the cool Canadian voice talents).

With my sincere thanks to Dave, Mike and Garnet, I hope you’ll not only want to listen to the show that I’m on (ego? moi?!) but also check-out their past and future episodes.

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