Or when it actually deleted the local files once it uploaded them to one drive. Fun times.

Yeah, Bruce, what the hell?!

Ecosia is working for me though

I jumped back on ecosia. It’s nice there, but I’m sure there are issues that a non tech person like me may not know about

The protective plastic seems to still be on this one. I used my z flip for 1 year before realizing that the crease was actually the plastic and not the screen itself.

Oh wow she’s gorgeous!!! How old is she? I hope my little goofball looks as good as yours when he grows up. He started like this and a month later is like that! I think he might get a lot darker.

I love her ears! I love quirkiness in animals… and people…

The kids are alright. So proud of them. I feel like my generation (old millennial or young gen x) is a bit apathetic

I had to put down my 16 yo heart, warmth, and joy 2 Saturdays ago. Something in me is broken and gone with him.

I got a little runt that needed a lot of help and is helping me heal . I tell him a lot about Katsu.

It’s been a rollercoaster.

All my best wishes go to you and your 2 little gremlins and their will to live 🐈

Ohhhhh, sweetheart! My heart hurts for you guys. Losing a furry friend is an incredible heartache, no matter how long you’ve known them, and if love was enough, it sounds like he would have lived forever.

How his sibling doing?

Much more depending on the usage. The length of the audio counts in the rate but less than its use, how long and where it would be used.

For instance, a perpetuity buyout (one of the thing he should have negotiated), are very expensive. Audiobooks for instance are longer but cheaper. My rate is 350/per finished hour for audiobooks, which is pretty average in the field. While a 30 seconds national radio commercial for my country, I would ask between 350 and 500, and that’s with a limited time they would be allowed to use/broadcast it.

Here is a rate sheet for standard usage, if you are interested: https://globalvoiceacademy.com/gvaa-rate-guide-2/

I’m so excited, I don’t get to talk about this aspect of my job often :)) Thank you for your interest so far!

It would be devaluating the value and the work of voice over artists.

I’m not even a well known voice over artist and I get paid way more for words that fewer people will hear. And I’m not even in an union.

He got shafted.

Definitely not ridiculous to think so, considering how many people recognize his voice. Just like one great book will be bought by many people and make its author rich, a great line recognized by many people should be remunated as such.

The rights for usage should be much much higher. Just like recording Siri’s voice and an e-learning project might have taken the same time but the usage and how many people are going to hear the voice is widely different.

Furthermore, “it only took him a minute” is akin to say to a graphic designer why pay him so much for a website that took him less than a day to do: it takes years, practice, and skill to be able to do in only a minute.

If anything, considering that a lot of people seems to recognize his voice, he should have been able to retire on this simple few words.

Just like one good jingle or one hit wonder can make their author very rich.

People need good jobs. I doubt there are tons of people whose dream job is to be a cashier.

Before I knew anything about Palestine and Israel, aside from the fact that they’ve been fighting for ages, I saw a short interview of a 10 years old girl in Gaza. She was incredibly well spoken and her eyes were showing a much older age that she actually was, as she explained how hopeless it was too grow up there, that she and her friends did not have any future nor hope, that everything was futile in their lives, and even surviving didn’t make much sense. 10 years old. It was before the carnage going on now, maybe in 2018. I often think about this girl and wonder if she’s even alive today.

I don’t know why I’m sharing this. She just made a big impact on me.

Get some dispensaries for weed while you’re at it pretty please

Any news? How is he doing?

That ever too soon

I wanna eat it, but with my heart

Tell me about it! I’m an audiobook narrator and I jumped on the AI bandwagon because my job as is, is bound to disappear. Now I can offer audiobooks narrated with my cloned voice for my clients with low budgets.

Audible doesn’t accept ai narrated books as of yet, but it’s just a matter of time.

Interestingly though, none of my clients went the AI road yet and still prefer to pay me rather than 3 times less for my AI voice. I bet that won’t last though.

I’m also looking into completely changing field. How about healthcare, I’m sure they’ll never stop needing and/or abusing those in this field…