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Patrick, how did you hire the voice for the premade recordings?

• patio11 16y ago
  I was hoping someone would ask that. Remember fiverr.com, the Mechanical Turk for people with talent, where every task is priced at $5? Somebody was offering to record a phone tree. I paid her $5 for half the job, liked what I got, paid her $5 for the other half, then got her email for ongoing work at a more appropriate wage. God, I love the Internet. Incidentally, the total cost of getting this project this far has been about $450, including $250 put on deposit for Twilio. (Better to have too much than too little, right?)
  • sachinag 16y ago
    A full list of all the tools/services you used for this project would be most welcome. I've got: Twilio, PayPal WPP, Spreedly, Fiverr, and whoever your host is.
    • patio11 16y ago
      [Edit: This got overly long. I'll blog it later.]
      • bvi 16y ago
        Looking forward to it! If possible, I'd love to read up on how exactly you moved from concept to product.
  • dchest 16y ago
    Wow, I thought this was a really good text-to-speech software, but it turns out it was a real voice :)
• tbgvi 16y ago
  I'm not sure what was used here, but I've used Voices.com before to source voice overs and have been really happy with it. Worth a look if you need something like that.