In this episode of “How Do You Say That?!” sponsored by britishvoiceover.co.uk, Bev Standing joins Sam and Mark to talk about balancing the right level of caring and nurturing in a heart-tugging script, making sense of seemingly technical nonsense scripts, bringing out your inner Goddess, and Mark attempts the ballet "first position"!

Our VO question this week is all about entering the voiceover industry in later life - and the advantages that can bring!

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Script 1

We are starting to test large-scale improvements to team perks. We haven't created a new system, but rather developed the existing one. Let's call it a serious evolution.

Now, each team member has just six slots for main perks. There is good news for crew members who fulfill several roles at once. It is a "bonus perk" system. If a crew member has a secondary qualification, it will be trained alongside the major one. Bonus perks do not increase the total training time, no matter how many there are.

Script 2

Losing a child is terrifying.

A nightmare many people face every day in our country

To help locate a child, it takes a company that is everywhere.

Introducing: Lost Child Awareness

Our company, the biggest out of home media company here…

Turned its billboards into a real-time tool for searching for lost children.

With the support of advertisers, every single ad stops, and the search starts.

Lost Child Awareness.

When a child is lost, there's nothing more important to be advertised.

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About our guest:

Bev is a full time voice actor and has been for over 10 years. Located in Ontario Canada, her focus is on commercial, non-broadcast, elearning and telephony for the most part but has also narrated the one and only season of a TV show titled "The People's Couch", based off Goggle Box in the UK.

She's been an animated ball with arms and legs for a maths program, voiced characters in a WarGaming video, and so far has recorded one audio book.

Bev might be best known as the original Text-to-Speech voice of TikTok, who in 2021 brought a lawsuit against the social media platform for the unauthorised use of her voice.

She is also a co-Territory Controller for Gravy for the Brain Canada, alongside Graeme Spicer.

Bev's Website

@bevstanding on Instagram

@bevstanding on Twitter

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