Michelle M. Brown

Viscira, a company that specializes in interactive media productions for the health sciences and pharmaceutical industries, has selected Michelle’s voice for an animation for a new nasal aerosol. Viscira has their own in-house audio studio and engineer. The sessions were produced by Dave Wolf and Rachel Perey of Viscira in San Francisco. http://viscira.com/

Michelle’s voice has been chosen for the phone systems for Aldo shoe stores (Globo Shoes) and for Texas Taxi. She’s been busy recording hundreds of prompts for both systems, which seemingly includes every intersection in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Galveston where someone might want to be picked up by a cab!

Michelle was privileged to voice another great video for the Environmental Defense Fund produced and edited by Vanessa Workman. You can view the video on YouTube.

Michelle voiced another wonderful project produced by Vanessa Workman; this one for the Environmental Defense Fund. The project is a one minute video about the need to adopt stronger air pollution standards for oil and gas development in the U.S. This is is especially vital for communities located near natural gas facilities.

Michelle narrated this superbly intelligent and raw documentary by Max Good and Nathan Wollman about vigilante graffiti removal and the distinctions between blight and art. It premiered in San Francisco Aug 12 at the Roxie.

The trailer: http://www.vigilantefilm.com/ (Michelle’s voice is not in the trailer)

Michelle voiced a great production by Vanessa Workman (vanessaworkman.com) for PERC, the Property and Environment Research Center. The video is about “Catch Shares”, a cap and trade system that empowers fishermen with ownership in the resource. See it on vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/23564293

Michelle is teaching DGME 128 On-Air Talent this spring semester at College of San Mateo. Students will learn voiceover and on-camera techniques. The course will be offered again in the fall.

This winter has been busy. Besides keeping up on voice work for Voxify’s phone system clients (Vic’s Secret, Am/Ex, Budget, Avis, and The Hartford), Michelle also voiced a TV spot for United Way of Silicon Valley (produced by Ascension Digital) and is the on-camera host for a Public TV pledge break for KCSM-TV that airs this winter.

Michelle was selected by Avis-Budget Group to be the voice of their phone reservation and rental system. Recordings began mid-April and will take a few months before the system is live.

Jan-May: Michelle is teaching BCST 230 On Air Talent this semester at College of San Mateo. Her students have a lot of fun as they gain experience in voiceover and on-camera delivery in CSM’s professional digital studio.

Throughout the summer and into fall, Michelle continues to do voice work twice a week for Voxify of Alameda, CA. Recordings are voice prompts for phone systems for Victoria’s Secret, the Hartford Insurance, and other companies.

Michelle continues to record voice prompts for The Hartford Insurance company’s phone system. Recordings take place at Voxify in Alameda.

Michelle voiced a series of promotional videos for some high end skin care products – Caroline Chu Cosmetics http://www.carolinechu.com/ .  The videos will also be posted on QVC.com. Recordings were done at Stoneman Studios in Redwood City.

The Voice of Victoria’s Secret
Michelle M. Brown is the new voice of Victoria’s Secret automated phone agent. All calls to customer service at 1.800.411.5116 are answered by Michelle’s voice, which leads callers through a series of prompts. The process of recording thousands of prompts took about four months. All recording takes place at Voxify of Alameda.

I had to record everything – numbers, days of the week, male names, female males, surnames, every city, town, village, and street, currency, every product in Victoria’s Secret catalog, it’s size and color. Plus, I had to give everything proper inflection to be dropped into computer-sequenced sentences.

It seems like it would be easier if there were a website to consult instead of filing through hundreds of options over the phone. Services and products available online are a quick and easy solution to many problems, but are also a different way to enjoy shopping and games. Things like the lottery, playing Bingo Online and shopping online, have created a whole new experience for these hobbies. It’s seems much simpler to go on the internet and choose your lucky numbers or clothing from the comfort of your own home.

Michelle has also been selected by The Hartford insurance company as the voice of their automated phone agent. Initial recording has been begun and is expected to take until mid-July.

Jigsaw.com
Michelle voiced a series of instructional and promotional flash movies for business networking site Jigsaw.com. Recording was done at Stoneman Studios in Redwood City.