Before last Christmas we were thinking, as usual, about what to send as a season’s greeting to our customers. I came up with this idea: let's make a short video of a poem that suites the season.
We found a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called Winter-time. What we needed next was a reader. I searched for different services offering narration, and found voices.com.
I had the text ready, all I had to do was to post the job and make a few selections, like the language, gender, and age range of the voice I was looking for. I could also select adjectives that described what the voice should sound like. After defining the budget range and deadline I was ready to go.
In two days I got over 20 samples from people who had actually read the poem for me! The hardest part was to pick out one since most of the readers were really good.
Finally we chose one, agreed on the job, and he made the final recording. We were happy with the result and once more amazed at how the Internet has changed the way we do business.
