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Voice Artist Rick Lance points out this Internet Voice Coach interview with Mike Rowe, host of “Dirty Jobs” and narrator of “Deadliest Catch” among other things. This is the second half of the interview, so make sure to catch the first half at http://www.internetvoicecoach.com/public/Mike_Rowe_on_Dirty_Jobs_Voiceover_and_more_2.cfm. Mike used to sing opera, and has become an expert marketer of his message, so I have a particular fondness for him and his work. Go check it out!

Dave Courvoisier has two jobs: one, as the news anchor of a Las Vegas television station, the other as a voice artist. many other voice over folks have two jobs as well (many more than you may think). In this post, he gives us all 7 process points about making that second job, voiceover, work smoothly and efficiently. His main point: don’t try to reinvent the wheel every time you get a gig, and use the tools you have at hand to make it more efficient and streamlined.

Sam Chwat, a dialect specialist who worked closely with people in business, politics and the film industry who wanted to lose their regional accents, died last Thursday. In 1994, Chwat explained how he helped clients like Robert DeNiro and Julia Roberts lose their famous regional dialects.

A good question: is the acting diminished without the physical aspect of actually being in front of a camera? My family absolutely loves “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” which would have been much less entertaining without the stellar voice acting by George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzmann, Bill Murray, et al. I strongly believe that the voiceover category will continue be ghettoized by the American mindset that cartoons are still always for kids. With that in place, it is acceptable to not give full credit to the artists that don’t actually appear on screen. Your thoughts?

Dan Lenard answers another age-old voiceover question in his inimitable way, this time on the subject of tube pre-amps for vocal “warmth.”