by SoundMotives | Feb 17, 2020 | audio, inspiration, podcast, studio blog, talks, Uncategorised, voice
I’m very excited to have been asked to be part of the We Are Europe activities for 2020 alongside a number of people whose work I really admire. We Are Europe, the European cooperation project that was launched in 2015 is embarking a new 3-year cycle...
by SoundMotives | Jan 2, 2020 | audio, our work, sound design, studio blog
In December, Sound Motives Studio worked with Freuds / Atomized Studios to deliver an audio advert, promoting Public Health England’s Every Mind Matters and The FA’s Heads Up mental health campaigns. The advert features HRH The Duke of Cambridge alongside...
by SoundMotives | Jan 1, 2020 | audio, inspiration, music, podcast, studio blog, thought
Having really enjoyed other people’s end of year lists, I thought I’d put a list together that runs through some of the discoveries I’ve made, or moments I’ve enjoyed in 2019. It’s a list of everything from podcasts, to music, to videos....
by SoundMotives | Nov 1, 2019 | audio, bbc, editorial, our work, persona, studio blog, voice
In October I began working with the team at BBC Voice & AI, helping them with their forthcoming beeb voice assistant. It’s been fascinating contributing to this process of shaping the assistant’s persona, as the team develop their remarkably ambitious...
by SoundMotives | Jun 27, 2019 | audio, our work, podcast, studio blog, the economist
I’m currently helping the team who make the daily flagship podcast, The Intelligence with podcast production. It’s fascinating to see how the team work together with their journalists from around the globe, to make a 20+ minute podcast with 3 different...
by SoundMotives | Mar 10, 2019 | audio, guardian, our work, studio blog, voice
We launched our second project at The Guardian Voice Lab this week! It’s a flash briefing that combined human and synthetic voice, which was a lot of fun work on. Working with SSML was a new experience for me, and although working in code was daunting initially,...