Your client has signed off on everything and your new project is ready for recording.  Before submitting your next project, run through this checklist.  If each question receives a "Yes" response, your project is officially ready for recording!

-Is the preferred voice artist available?  A quick e-mail to Dustin or Ashley can confirm the availability of the preferred voice artist and save valuable delivery time.

-Are the file names clear?  Do your slides have file names?  Does your project require each file to be a page in your script?  Is this clear for our QA department?  Also keep in mind that "." and ":" are difficult and not able to transfer to audio file names.  Please make sure your naming conventions for your files are clear and/or explained for our QA department.

-Have you included a pronunciation guide?  This is probably the most difficult challenge for our Voice Artists and QA department.  AtTVandRadioVoices.com we understand when compiling a script, a client knows what to expect from the terminology.  However, some of these terms are not known to many people not in the field to which the script is referring.  Please be sure share our narration guidelines about Pronunciations with your client before finalizing the script.

From our Narration Guidelines:

"Pronunciations
If the project contains any acronyms, industry jargon or unique words, symbols (such as "/") or phrases, please include a pronunciation guide with the script or notations within the script."

Providing a pronunciation guide will ensure that recording goes smoothly and can reduce the amount of QA or re-recording for terms that were unclear to begin with.

If a separate guide is unavailable for our artists, please be sure that all technical terms have a phonetically notation in the script in parenthesis and italicized.

-Have you included any specific direction for the voice artist?

There are several different tones and delivery styles our voice artists can use to deliver your project.  From "matter-of-fact", to "professional" to "warm and friendly" to "with a big smile" and everything in between.  If you want to make sure the delivery is just what you or your client had in mind, it's always good to have a few words at the top of the script to give the voice artist direction on the delivery style.  Most of the time this is dictated by the script itself, but it never hurts to give us more specificity.

Congratulations!  Your script is ready to be sent for recording!  We look forward to working with you!