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.
Winter/Spring 2010
February 2nd, 2010July, August, September
September 18th, 2009Throughout 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.
June
June 14th, 2009Michelle continues to record voice prompts for The Hartford Insurance company’s phone system. Recordings take place at Voxify in Alameda.
May – VO for Caroline Chu Cosmetics
May 24th, 2009Michelle 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.
April – Voice of Victoria’s Secret
April 26th, 2009The 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.
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.
April: New headshots + voice of The Hartford
April 18th, 2009Michelle just had new headshots taken. Excellent work by talented photographer Kaveh Nikpour of élan Productions.
April 18th, 2009
Michelle was selected as the new voice of The Hartford Insurance automated phone system. She will begin recording hundreds of phone prompts as soon as the scripts are ready. Recording is expected to take from May through July at Voxify in Alameda, CA.
March
March 29th, 2009Michelle voiced a promotional video for Jigsaw.com’s business networking application. Recording at Stoneman Studios in Redwood City.
March
March 8th, 2009As the voice of the new automated phone system for Victoria’s Secret, Michelle continues to record hundreds of voice prompts each week. The system has undergone a couple of rounds of testing. This highly sophisticated phone system is being produced by Voxify of Alameda, CA.
February
February 18th, 2009Michelle voiced several technical training videos for Nvidia of Santa Clara, instructing researchers on using Nvidia’s GPUs. Recordings engineered at Stoneman Studios, Redwood City.
January
January 3rd, 2009Michelle continues to record phone prompts for Victoria’s Secret at Voxify of Alameda.
December
December 15th, 2008Michelle was selected as the voice of Apptera’s interactive cell phone game and poll in which callers select a worthy charity to help during the holiday season. http://www.apptera.com/ Stoneman Studios, Redwood City.
Michelle’s on-camera! As part of KCSM TV’s Spotlight series about young bay area filmmakers, Michelle is hosting short segments on various camera techniques. Shot by KCSM’s magnificent field crew. Segments will air summer 2009.
November
November 1st, 2008Victoria’s Secret has chosen Michelle as the voice of their customer service phone agent. She has begun recording hundreds of phone prompts that guide customers in placing new orders, checking status of current orders, and other automated features as part of a voice-recognition phone system produced by Voxify of Alameda.
October
October 16th, 2008Getting Animated – Michelle was cast as a character voice in an animated webisode about alternative energy for Free Range Studios. Recording took place at Disher Sound in San Francisco.
September
September 20th, 2008Michelle voiced a series of technical training videos for Nvidia’s CUDA programming language. No one else can make lines like “the fine granularity of paraelellism” sound as sweet. Stoneman Studios, Redwood City.