Podcasts about campfire radio theater

Pedro Iniguez is a Mexican-American Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Rhysling Award-nominated horror and science-fiction writer from Los Angeles, California. He is the author of Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, and Fever Dreams of a Parasite, among others. Forthcoming books include his SFF collection, Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories, and his debut picture book, The Fib, which are slated for 2025 releases.This story originally appeared in Infinite Constellations, 2023.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's A Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comFact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brian Trent is the award-winning author of the sci-fi thrillers Redspace Rising and Ten Thousand Thunders, and more than a hundred short stories appearing in the world's top fiction markets, including in the New York Times' bestselling Black Tide Rising series, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, Galaxy's Edge, and numerous year's best anthologies. Trent lives in Connecticut. His website and blog are at www.briantrent.com.This story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March/April 2020.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's A Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Main fiction: "Nice For What?" by Dominica PhetteplaceDominica Phetteplace writes fiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Copper Nickel, PANK, The Los Angeles Review, Zyzzyva, Wigleaf, Best Microfiction and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her honors include two Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship and support from MacDowell, Tin House and Djerassi.This story originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July/Aug 2019.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's a Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comFact: Looking Back At genre History by Amy H SturgisSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  DESECRATE (HORROR) Philamena was a seer, a psychic by modern vernacular. And somewhere among these stones is her gravesite. Tonight, we're going to contact her." On All Hallows' Eve, a graveside Ouija board session descends into a nightmare, unveiling a web of lies and betrayal between longtime friends and perhaps a doorway to something far more disturbing.  Warning: Explicit language, violence, and graphic content. Written, directed, and produced by John Ballentine. Original music score by Kevin Hartnell. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

OF BLOOD – PART ONE (HORROR, MYSTERY) “All the freaks come out before daybreak.” A rash of abductions in the small community of Red Hill leads a young woman to suspect her mysterious nocturnal neighbor might be hiding a sinister side. Warning: Explicit Language and Graphic Content. Written, directed, and produced by John Ballentine. Original music score by Kevin Hartnell. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

TIES OF BLOOD – PART TWO (HORROR, MYSTERY) "All predators aren't created equal." Nikki's inquisitive instincts lead her into dangerously precarious situations as the mystery of the Red Hill Adductions deepens. Warning: Explicit Language and Graphic Content. Written, directed, and produced by John Ballentine. Original music score by Kevin Hartnell. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

Ending last year's July performances is the incredible John Ballentine with a classic gothic Canadian tale by famed writer Tim Wynne-Jones first heard in CBC's Nightfall. The Campfire Radio Theater takes a turn on stage with this amazing play! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ending last year's July performances is the incredible John Ballentine with a classic gothic Canadian tale by famed writer Tim Wynne-Jones first heard in CBC's Nightfall. The Campfire Radio Theater takes a turn on stage with this amazing play! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Molly Tanzer is the award-winning author of five novels, two collections, and many works of short fiction. She lives outside of Boulder, CO with her notorious cat, the Toad. Follow her on Instagram @molly_tanzer.This story originally appeared in Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures, 2012.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary is a New York based actor/voice-over artist. She loves the world of audio drama and is delighted to be back on board the StarShipSofa. She has performed in theatre, film, TV, animation, radio, and video games. A few of her recent credits include the one-woman play An Evening With Lola Montez, It's A Wonderful Life, a streamed performance of the piece Near Nellie Bly, Divination of The Three for Asheville Fringe, and the audio dramas Frontier Gentleman, Chinook, and Newfield. She can be heard voicing various characters for Disney, GoKidGo, LeapFrog, the Center For New American Media, Audible, and Audimance. She has also been a regular performer on the audio drama series Fireside Mystery Theatre, The NoSleep Podcast, The Wicked Library, To the Manor Borne By Robots, and Campfire Radio Theater. marymurphyonline.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the 5th season in the terror and Jeff Billard brings you Darker Projects- Five Minute Fears #2.5, We're Alive Chapter 22.3, and Abominations from Campfire Radio Theater! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the 5th season in the terror and Jeff Billard brings you Darker Projects- Five Minute Fears #2.5, We're Alive Chapter 22.3, and Abominations from Campfire Radio Theater! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to Campfire Radio Theater at last with "The Bones of St. Nicholas". Emotionally devastated in the wake of a bitter divorce, an exhausted single mother comes face to face with a sinister mall Santa intent on delivering a twisted Christmas miracle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to Campfire Radio Theater at last with "The Bones of St. Nicholas". Emotionally devastated in the wake of a bitter divorce, an exhausted single mother comes face to face with a sinister mall Santa intent on delivering a twisted Christmas miracle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Year by year, step by quiet step, a well-intentioned collective of great minds evolves into something to be feared. MUSIC - ‘Through the Past' by Michael Vignola, ‘Gazing Wide' by Palm Blue, ‘Where the Wind Blows' by Sean Williams, and ‘Coriolis Effect' by Kyle Preston, all rights reserved. https://www.patreon.com/sorennarnia Other audio horror by Soren Narnia: 'Town With a Tranquil Name,' on the podcast Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten, October 30, 2019 'Outcall' - Episode 15, Alexandria Archives podcast 'Paranormal Appraisal 151' – Episode 20, Alexandria Archives podcast 'Q & A With a Vampire Killer' - Episode 33, Alexandria Archives podcast 'Why Have You Disturbed Our Sleep' - The Bloodlust podcast, October 8, 2017 Soren can also be heard on the podcasts 'The Ghosts on This Road', 'Sibling Horror', 'SessionsX,' 'Let's Not Meet,' and others. He also recently appeared in John Ballentine's horror drama 'The Dreams of Wolves' on Campfire Radio Theater. Art by S. Patrick Brown, https://www.instagram.com/scalawagarts/

This episode is a recording of a live episode from Podbean's Storytelling Podcast Week live program.   ... For July, Storytelling Podcast Week featured a live panel on "Campfire Stories" for our monthly live episode with Jim Harold of Jim Harold's Campfire podcast and John Ballentine of the Campfire Radio Theater Podcast, hosted by Motzie Dapul of the Hi Nay podcast as they discussed the art of telling campfire stories, scary stories, their podcast production, sound design, creating community from their shows, their favorite episodes, gathering stories, the podcasts they listen to and much more!  ... Storytelling Podcast Week is brought to you by Podbean. Podbean is a podcast publishing and monetization service, hosting over 600,000 podcasts. If you're looking to start your own podcast, monetize your podcast and livestream directly to your listeners, you can set up an account at www.podbean.com  

This episode is a recording of a live episode from Podbean's Storytelling Podcast Week live program.   ... For July, Storytelling Podcast Week featured a live panel on "Campfire Stories" for our monthly live episode with Jim Harold of Jim Harold's Campfire podcast and John Ballentine of the Campfire Radio Theater Podcast, hosted by Motzie Dapul of the Hi Nay podcast as they discussed the art of telling campfire stories, scary stories, their podcast production, sound design, creating community from their shows, their favorite episodes, gathering stories, the podcasts they listen to and much more!  ... Storytelling Podcast Week is brought to you by Podbean. Podbean is a podcast publishing and monetization service, hosting over 600,000 podcasts. If you're looking to start your own podcast, monetize your podcast and livestream directly to your listeners, you can set up an account at www.podbean.com  

Ending the July performances is the incredible John Ballentine with a classic gothic Canadian tale by famed writer Tim Wynne Jones first heard in CBC's Nightfall. The Campfire Radio Theater takes a turn on stage with this amazing play! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ending the July performances is the incredible John Ballentine with a classic gothic Canadian tale by famed writer Tim Wynne Jones first heard in CBC's Nightfall. The Campfire Radio Theater takes a turn on stage with this amazing play! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2021 marks the 10th anniversary of Campfire Radio Theater and to show our appreciation for a decade of immersive listening experiences, we wanted to kick off our first-ever Monthly Feature with the mastermind behind Campfire Radio Theater, John Ballentine. John is a familiar voice in the audio drama horror world. Like many of us, his passion for audio fiction was sparked by the stories emanating from his radio. John recalls listening to programs such as, Nightfall and Bradbury 13 and catching the creative bug to try something similar. "I've always had a passion for fictional storytelling and writing. Had a bit of a history working with audio and filmmaking as well along with various other artistic endeavors. Combining these skill sets into producing audio drama proved to be a natural progression." - John Ballentine It's December and the Holidays are upon us. It's that nostalgic time of year. A time for eggnog and cookies, greeting cards and latkes, Yule logs, parades, and zombies.  Yes, Zombies. What else would you expect from us? This December we're kicking off the yuletide cheer with a featured Christmas show from our friends at Campfire Radio Theater. And so, as John would say... "Welcome friend. Have a seat by the fire... Make yourself comfortable." Dreaming of a Dead Christmas Two college coeds returning home for the holidays unwittingly unleash a zombie outbreak at a truck stop after running over a mysterious man on a desolate country road. Warning: May contain explicit language and graphic content not suitable for younger audiences. Written, directed, and produced by John Ballentine Cast Tanja Milojevic Shelby Sessler John Ballentine Teresa Ballentine Blaine Hicklin Joe Stofko Music by Kevin Macleod and Michael Hoffman Songs by The Experiments, Reigning Sound, The Ravonettes, Out of Orion and Dott  

Haunted by a tragic incident from the past, Angela reminisces about a grade school friend and a series of ghostly visitations that have plagued her since childhood. Warning: Contains adult language and frightening situations. Written, directed and produced by John Ballentine CAST: Erika Sanderson Tanja Milojevic Owen McCuen James Hicklin Blythe Haynes Shelby Sessler Linda Wojtowick Julie Hoverson MJ Hartnell Original music score by Kevin Hartnell

With new AI technology, voice actors might be afraid of deep-fakes, or someone stealing their voice. But did you know that the same technology may be able to track where your voice is used and flag any deep-fakes? This week, we welcome Zohaib Ahmed, CEO of Resemble.ai and Tanja Milojevic, voice talent and Community Manager. In addition to offering a variety of solutions for voice cloning, character voices, and other content building with synthetic voices, Resemble AI runs an open-source project called Resemblyzer which allows detection of deep-fakes or misuse. Listen in as we discuss the ethics, accessibility, and the importance of storytelling in AI voices. Guest Bios About Zohaib Zohaib Ahmed is the CEO of Resemble and oversees tech development. His previous experience includes leading engineering teams at Magic Leap, Deepen AI, Hipmunk, and BlackBerry. At Hipmunk, he was the lead engineer of the first AI Assistant for Travel, built using modern NLP techniques. Zohaib graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in computer science. About Tanja Tanja Milojevic is highly motivated, talented, and dedicated to audio description. Tanja is working with Resemble AI to clone her voice and as the Community Manager. Tanja has worked on: Games (the gate, Flippd, and others in development), Audible (Baby Teeth), Pseudopod, Podcastle, Podscape, Radio Dramas (Edict Zero, What's the Frequency, 11th Hour, You Are Here, A Scottish Podcast, Koach Studios, Electric Vicuna Productions, Campfire Radio Theater, All's Fair, Organism, Greater Boston, Twilight Radio Theater, Misfits Audio, Darker Projects, Brokensea Audio, 19 Nocturne Boulevard, Audioblivious Productions, Icebox Radio Theater, The Grey Area, The No Sleep Podcast. Top 10 Takeaways With Resemble, voice actors can choose from three levels of control for use of their voice: No Control, Content Filters, and Full Approval. Resemble has thorough terms of service that spells out voice usage. There are two ways to record for Resemble: record samples on the Resemble website or upload previous materials. Resemblyzer is an open-source project that allows you to derive a high-level representation of a voice. Resemblyzer allows for detections of deep-fakes and synthetic voice misuse. Resemble has emotional gradients that can be added to their AI voices. Resemble can analyze audio, edit and supplement a voice actor's work. Voice talent can use Resemble starting at $30 per month. Resemble's marketplace can “score” voice samples based on professionalism, and companies can license these voices to use per character usage. Resemble wants voice actors to have a major role in the industry. Referenced in this Episode Learn more about Resemble.ai Visit Tanja's Website Recorded on ipDTL Share This Resemble AI believes in compensating voice actors #VOBOSS AI voices improve accessibility #VOBOSS Passive income is never a bad thing #VOBOSS Transcript >> It's time to take your business to the next level, the BOSS level! These are the premiere Business Owner Strategies and Successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a BOSS, a VO BOSS! Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza. Anne: Hey everyone. Welcome to the VO BOSS podcast, the AI and Voice series. I'm your host in Anne Ganguzza and it is my pleasure to introduce some very special guests that are with me today. First Zohaib Ahmed is the founder and CEO at Resemble.AI. Zohaib also previously led engineering teams at Magic Leap, Deepen AI, Hipmunk and Blackberry. We also have special guest Tanja Milojevic, award-winning voice talent and community manager of Resemble.AI. Tanja assists in onboarding and supporting voice talent through Resemble's synthetic voice creation process. She has over 10-plus years of voice acting experience, and her work ranges from character voices for audio dramas, to short story narrations, to audio descriptions for the blind and more. Zohaib and Tanja, thank you both so very much for joining me today. Tanja: Thank you, Anne. I love your podcast, so I'm very excited to be here. Anne: Oh my gosh. Thank you so much! I appreciate that. So I've been interviewing quite a few companies that produce voices in the AI space for the series. So I'd love to start off by asking if you could tell us a little bit about your company and the products that you offer and what makes you different. Zohaib: Yeah, so we started off, for example, with one core problem in mind. We looked at the computer vision community, you know, all those lucky people who have Photoshop since 1991, and they'd have all these fancy tools, Unity, and you name it, to do all these fancy movies and graphic effects and all sorts of visuals that we kind of take for granted now. And we looked at them and we said, hey, why don't audio people have any of these tools? Why, why are they still stuck with old knobs on a screen that kind of resemble literally what the physical version of that instrument would be in real life, just on a computer screen? And we kind of looked at that and looked around and closer and closer. And we found that there were a lot of use cases where extending voice actors would make life a lot easier. And it would also create a lot of interesting applications that couldn't be done before. So that's kind of where we started. And since then we kind of went in all sorts of directions, but in our very core, we were building synthetic voices. So we were like our core business is to take any sort of arbitrary speech data that's unstructured, create these high quality synthetics, and then kind of go from there. And over time we've decreased latency. So we're able to generate content within a few milliseconds, like seconds or minutes of conversations in a few seconds or milliseconds. We're able to do unique audio editing, where you have like a hybrid text-to-speech where you paste in your own voice and say, in this podcast, I'm kind of blabbing on, and if I wanted to remove bits and pieces, I can do that. Or if I wanted to change a few words, I could do that. And my synthetic voice would kick in in those parts. We found pre-production and post-production value in all, everything that we're doing. And then within all that, you know, we kind of want to still keep a performance of voice actors. So we want them to not only sound like them, but to be as emotional as they are and to kind of get the performances as they do. So, yeah, we've been around for a little bit over two years now, and we've worked with more than 150,000 users who have created voices on our platform. We try to make it as accessible as possible. That's kind of the big differentiating factor between us and everyone else is we tried, from day one, our goal was, well, this is a lot more powerful if we give it to the user and let them clone their voice, then you know, Anne can go ahead and click on her voice and figure out, oh, I'd love this on my podcast. And she'll come up with the ideas, and we kind of just facilitate her ideas. So that's been our, that's been our motivation has just been like putting it out to feel people's hands. And we have like 150,000 of them now and growing every day and all sorts of different use cases have popped up. Anne: Wow. So I want to get in a little bit more into how you create your voices on your platform. But before that, I'd like to ask Tanja a question. Tell us a little bit about your voiceover career and what was it that led you -- some of my voice talent friends would say -- to the dark side? What was it that led you to your interest in AI? Tanja: Well, seeing that I love Star Wars, I think that's a great reference, dark side. That's, that's awesome. So I generally stumbled upon voice acting when I was in high school. I've always been interested in acting ever since I was a kid. I received one Christmas a tape recorder that, you know, with some blank tapes at the time, and that was the best thing ever. 'Cause then I started recording stories and everybody's conversations and annoying the whole household in general. So, so that's where that started, and I was always interested in it. And then I had a friend, her and I would do a lot of improv kind of over the phone. Do you remember the days where after 9:00 PM, doesn't matter what phone plan you had, it would be free. Anne: Wow. I don't know if that was the case in my zone, wherever I was. I don't remember that. Tanja: Yeah, here in Massachusetts, that was, that was kind of a thing. Just, you can just call after 9:00. Anne: Oh wow! Tanja: So we would improv a lot, needless to say, and not be very alert for school. But then I stumbled upon, actually at my local library, a talking book, a couple of audio books for school, A tale of Two Cities and Pet Sematary by Stephen King. And they turned out to be audio dramas. So, you know, full sound effects, story, everything was in audio and I, I was intrigued. So then I did a bunch of research, and I found out about voice acting and a website called Voice Acting Alliance where anyone could audition. It was meant for amateurs. You didn't have to know what you were doing at the time. So I got a really terrible compressor microphone, Linin from Radio Shack, I think, and started using that and did as many auditions as I possibly could and listened to people's feedback. Everyone was so gracious and welcoming. So I was hooked. And after that, I just started getting into whatever I could with voice acting, anything from audio dramas, which the independent podcasting movement now has a lot of those, and they're growing. There are several places to find them, so many amazing stories out there that there just isn't enough time in the day to listen. So I I've been involved in that consistently for 10 years. Recently, I'd say about a couple of years ago, maybe a year ago now, I started recording audio descriptions for a couple of different companies, which is a track that's added to a media, like whether it's a TV series or a film, and it describes essential costume changes, action sequences, facial expressions, and so on and so forth meant for the blind and visually impaired to access media on an equal playing field to everyone else. So that's been a lot of fun. I've done a couple of short stories, narration, kind of narration based, playlist intros, radio spots, things like that, tied in here and there. And then I accidentally actually stumbled upon Resemble.AI because I've always been fascinated with artificial intelligence and smart assistants. Being someone with the visual impairment, I use screen readers all day, every day. My phone has a screen reader. I have, I kid you not, four Echoes in my house. So that gives you an idea of how much I love artificial intelligence and assistants. So I was looking for voice cloning and specifically searching as a voice actor, how do you become a virtual assistant? And Resemble.AI popped up with voice cloning, of course, with how Zohaib was discussing earlier, the ability and the power that it gives the user where you can then clone your voice for free. I never saw that anywhere. I've, I haven't come across any other website that allows you to just record and it's there. So I tried it and then I sent in data. I also applied on the form, and I heard back from one of the team and started the dialogue of, hey, I want to do all the voices, like everything. I don't, I don't care what it is, whatever you guys need. And it evolved into this role. So it was a very organic process that was serendipitous for me. So really excited to be here. Anne: Absolutely. That's a really wonderful story. And I saw on your website, I've listened to some of your demos, and I know that you're very passionate about the acting part of voiceover and being able to tell the story. I think you have an affirmation that you said, it's not just the voice that matters. It's how you tell the story. Tanja: Absolutely. Anne: I guess my question going into that is how does AI fit into this? Do you envision an AI voice being able to tell the story as a voice actor would? Tanja: I do. I mean, I think that we have room here to definitely include both where, for example, a client might want to use the artificial voice for a smaller character, but then they might want to, down the line, hire that voice actor, if they're readily available and also not remaining anonymous, which is an option for our voice talent as well. Then they might get additional work with that company depending on what the needs are, especially if they are someone who's, who's available and responsive, and the company likes their voice anyway. But that said, the emotional gradients that we have, that we offer at Resemble really allow the developers to add these emotions to the clips that they're generating, whether it's sad, angry, caring, happy, et cetera, scared. There is a lot of customization that's available for the developers. And we do take feedback very seriously. Anyone's feedback for improvement, we're ever evolving and improving. So with just the rapid changes in AI technology in the last decade, I'll be looking forward to seeing how much more realistic and how much more powerful neural TTS voices will become over time, since it's literally, it's just a matter of time and of data crunching. Anne: Excellent. Zohaib, can you talk to me a little bit about how voices are created on your platform? Zohaib: Yeah, so we, we wanted to make it as simple as possible. So there's, there's two ways of creating voices. The first option is anyone could go on our web platform, record 50 sentences. Typically these sentences are fairly short, five to eight words each, and after 50 sentences, we will build the voice for you in the next 15 to 20 minutes. There you go. There's your voice. And the second way is you upload some sort of unstructured data. So you can imagine a lot of talent that we work with, and a lot of customers that we directly work with, they are sitting on top of data where they've previously recorded data that convey a certain emotion or that it conveys a certain style of speech. So it allows our folks to kind of create domain specific voices. So for example, if Tanja is doing a voice for a telco on like IVR, so it's like you pick up the phone, and you call Verizon and kind of talks back to you or synthetic voice talks back to you, that kind of data set is very different than if Tanja was doing like an audio drama. Anne: Right? Zohaib: She needs to be a lot more emotional, and it's a completely different performance. So we tried to capture in exactly the kind of data or the performance that we want to reproduce to your earlier question, in terms of emotion and inflection, the model the AI is built in a way such that it tries to predict the right emotion or the right inflection, given a few words or whatever you're typing in. So that's a couple of ways of doing it. Once we ingest that data, typically the 30-second technical pitch is it consumes the audio as well as a transcription of that audio. And then it tries to learn what the transcript would output. And at the end of it, once it's learned a mapping between the words and the audio and the reason we could do it at 50 samples and not 20 hours like it used to be, or 100 hours like it used to be is because the model has already has a notion of English. So it's, you don't need to provide it with everything. It's just -- Anne: So you have a base model. Zohaib: -- we try to cover most of the phonetic -- exactly. Anne: Ah, okay. Zohaib: We do that for -- across different languages. So if you wanted Tanja to speak Spanish, and assuming Tanja doesn't speak Spanish -- Anne: Right. Zohaib: -- we can record her English and then get her voice to speak Spanish because the AI has learned some notion of Spanish already. And then during prediction time, it's just, you give it text and then you say, hey model, if this Tanja synthetic voice was generating this particular text, what would this audio look like or sound like? And it tries to make predictions. That's what most machine learning does. It's just prediction at the end of the day. Anne: Right. So then if people are creating voices on your platform, are you using those? Is that data that gets fed in for the machine to learn from, in order to create that ball or -- Zohaib: No, no. Yeah. So the, the underlying model is -- it's stagnant. Anne: Oh, okay. Zohaib: So like we freeze it in time and then we don't append data to it. And the reason we don't append data to it, that's like live data that's being adjusted is typically in any stream of machine learning, it's bad data, even a little bit of bad data hurts you significantly, so -- Anne: Oh, interesting. Zohaib: -- you don't want to pollute data at all. So you kind of want to -- you know, it's like if you, if you were building an application for measuring house prices, and then all of a sudden, you started sneaking in outliers into that dataset, the predictions would get worse overall because of these outliers. So we don't include any of user data into any of these models. Those are all like custom models that we've collected data ourselves specifically for building that task. Anne: Gotcha. Zohaib: And those are like stuck in time. Anne: So that's been done. And so there's no other mo -- I'm just curious. So there's no other models that will improve that model. Is that correct? Or there's no other information that can be added that would improve the model, or you're maybe continually trying to improve it or no, you're, you're good with this model? Zohaib: No. So we were constantly trying to improve it. There's two ways of improving the model. One is like where we lack data. So for example, if we understand that our model used to struggle with deep voices, deep male voices -- Anne: Okay. Zohaib: -- we would go ahead and be like, oh, that's because we didn't collect enough -- Anne: Enough. Zohaib: -- of this kind of data. So we'll go ahead and try to fill in those gaps and see like, okay, what else are we missing now? So we always can try to improve it with data. Anne: Gotcha. Zohaib: But then some of the bigger advancements, the bigger improvements occur due to just architecture changes. So just recently we've done things like produce audio at 44 kilohertz most, if not all, text-to-speech engines produce it at 22 or 24, but that's like architectural change in the model that produces better results. So yeah, there's only really two avenues to go. Either you feed it more data and see if you could tweak things or where you, once you get stuck there, you look at the architecture of the model, and you say, well, what are we not able to do better? Are we not able to render higher frequencies? Are we not able to predict certain emotions really well? Did we struggle with a particular accent, et cetera, then you kind of adjust the architecture from there. Anne: So, that's interesting. So it leads me to think about, let's say if I were to produce my own voice, my emotion, right, or my model emotion maybe would be completely different than maybe somebody else's or maybe the model's emotion or inclination toward that emotion. Is that correct to assume that, and it would be better if I wanted a model of my voice to upload more data? Zohaib: Yeah. So we definitely do that. So it's the fundamental model is built up of all sorts of accents and a variety of data. What we've seen is the dataset that we provide you to record typically captures -- it's like phonetically balanced. So it captures like most of the phonemes that you're -- that we speak in. So that kind of gets us really far, but we have had scenarios where we -- I, I recall one with this company out in New Zealand that, you know, recorded or sent over some data. And when we generated it to my non-oceanic ears, it sounds good. It sounds like, yes, like people in New Zealand sound like, and then we sent it over to them and, you know, there's like all sorts of like, oh, but it, New Zealand, we don't do -- Anne: Right. Zohaib: -- the, the R's like that. That's how Australians do the R's, and that accent is slightly different than the Australian. So when do you get, when you get really integrated, then yeah. We need to collect more data from that kind of source. Anne: Interesting. And is it also, let's say, for example, as a voice talent, right, I want to have my human voice, right, that I use and get paid for, but I also want to have my AI voice available, and maybe I want to do a lot of, I want to do IVR systems. I do a lot of them now anyways, figuring that that's going to be one genre that's going to utilize AI voices. If I were to give you data that I've already recorded, where I've done a lot of phone voices, would that make a better phone voice for me versus let's say something, like, I might do some acting and do some more dramatic emotional stuff? So if I wanted to create an AI voice for IVR systems, I would maybe give you more data that would be inclusive of that type of read, versus maybe I could have another AI voice that would be my, you know, my more dramatic voice that could be for video games or for whatever, and then work more on the emotional aspect of the data. Tanja: Yep. Yep, exactly. Zohaib: Absolutely. Everything is domain specific. Anne: Got it. Zohaib: So you give us data that's like IVR, it produces a better idea. Anne: Right. Yep. Got it. Now I assume that, you know, I can't create my own voice for free there or can I? That would be -- I don't imagine it's free to create my own voice, like, or an accurate representation of my voice? Zohaib: Yeah. So if it's like for a custom data set that we're ingesting, it's no longer free -- Anne: Got it. That makes sense. Zohaib: -- because there's some sort of pipeline that we put you through. Anne: Sure. Okay. Zohaib: But yeah, there are different, depending on which aspect you're coming from, whether you are a VO, you're a voice talent, or whether you are a company that just happens to have voice data, the pricing kind of varies from there. Anne: Well, I always found it interesting because I literally, I've been doing my VO BOSS podcast for four years. Literally I could give you probably the most conversational aspects of my voice if I were to just give you all that data. And that would create a very conversational Anne for an AI voice, I would hope anyway. Zohaib: Yep. Exactly. Tanja: Right. Anne: Okay. Right. Okay, so let me ask you a question. Do you sell AI voices as well? So let's say if somebody is using -- that they don't necessarily want to create their own voice. If they want to use your platform for, you know, creating audio files, can they use your voices at a, at a cost? Zohaib: Yeah. So we do have a marketplace. Anne: Okay. Zohaib: So we, we invited a lot of voice talent. And actually, if you just go and build a voice, we -- it rates, we rank your voice in some way, or we score your voice in some way, depending on what kind of microphone you use and what kind of support you've got. Anne: Okay. Zohaib: So we do invite people to add their voice to this marketplace. And then from there on, those voices are available for a selection to our customers. Anne: Got it. Zohaib: So our customers can say, oh, I really like Anne's voice. And they'll click on your name, they'll listen to a sample with your synthetic voice and be like, oh yeah, that's, that's exactly kind of what I want. And then they could propose a project to you -- Anne: Got it. Zohaib: -- and then we kind of facilitate that kind of agreement. Anne: So then my next question is, is there compensation and usage for any, let's say, company that wants to use my voice, and is it on a per job basis? Zohaib: Yeah. So the way that we look at it is, it's on a per character usage fee. Anne: Okay. Zohaib: So we do compensate voice actors on a per character level. Anne: Okay. Zohaib: So if you are building an IVR voice, is that more that that customer uses your voice? We show you exactly what that character usage is, so you can track it. And then there's some sort of compensation at the end of every month. Anne: Oh, okay. So it's a monthly thing? It's not necessarily based on per job? Tanja: Right. It's just how many characters were run through your -- Anne: Got it. Tanja: You can have multiple voice models, and maybe clients are using all of them, different clients. It would all simply be based on how much data these clients were running through these voice models collectively on a month to month basis. And the royalties would come out of the characters generated. Anne: Got it. So then if my voice were recognizable, right, and it was a great AI voice, I would be concerned as a voice talent that maybe the usage of that voice might not be in alliance with my brand, right? Or maybe they're using it for something that I would not necessarily be aligned with with my brand. Is there any sort of, you know, job control in that respect? Zohaib: Yep. So we have three levels of control that we offer at the moment. So the first is no control. We have plenty of voice talent that does -- that do like impersonations of voices, or they do like really specific character voices that aren't really tied to them in any way. And they're okay with anyone doing anything with those voices. So if you're making a game, the character in that game could be anything. It doesn't really matter to them. So that's like one level, I guess. Anne: Okay. Zohaib: I'll jump to the most extreme level, which is, we also have the ability for the talent to completely make it a manual process and make it so that there has to be a project description, and that it has to be accepted. They have to be sample lines that are discussed with that or show to the voice talent and then the project executes. And then there's like category in the middle, which is kind of like exploratory right now. But it's something that I think not only voice AI or hopefully not just us, but other people are also trying to do, which is something we call a content filter. Anne: Yeah, mm-hmm, yeah. Zohaib: So the idea is that we're able to detect with texts whether something is political -- Anne: Yeah. Zohaib: -- whether it's not safe for work, and we're automatically able to prevent that from ever being generated. So at the moment, it errs to the side of caution. So there are a lot of false positives, but that's because we want to be extra safe for that scenario -- Anne: Sure, absolutely. Zohaib: -- where, you know, if you've mention Donald Trump on there -- Anne: Sure. Zohaib: -- it'll most likely say, hey, that's political -- Anne: Right. Zohaib: -- and doesn't want you to say anything. Anne: Or if there's -- yeah. Or maybe there's swear words or, you know, words that I would never say myself -- Tanja: Right. Anne: -- wouldn't be represented -- okay. Very interesting. So tell me a little bit about, I saw something on your website about Resemble Protect. What is that, what does that do for us, Resemblizer? Is that what it -- Zohaib: Yeah, exactly. So that's an open source project that we have. It's, it's on GitHub, github.com. Anne: Is that what you were just describing to me? Was that the Resemble Protect or? Zohaib: Nope. So yeah, Resemble Protect [inaudible] it's the same thing. Anne: Got it. Zohaib: The idea behind Resemblizer was when we first started, there were a lot of components that kind of build up our voice model. So you can assume that since we're detecting emotion, we can also offer just emotion detection as a service, since we're detecting different sorts of languages and different sorts of voices, we can kind of offer -- like we do some sort of fingerprinting to identify or disentangle your voice from the text that you're reading or your accent, et cetera. So Resemblizer basically is this open source package. It ships with, or it comes with like this pre-trade model. So what that means is as a user of that open source or free package, you don't need to train anything. There's no ML working to do. You don't need to buy compute or have powerful computers. Because open source project is basically our way of looking at this problem of speaker identification and deepfake protection, and basically looking at it and saying like, this is like a problem for everyone to solve. And this is a machine learning network that's able to distinguish between fakes and reals. And we kind of put it out in the public because it's not our core product or anything. So we're like, well, let's put this out there and see what other people can do with it. So we've had people who are trading that model with a lot more data that we traded with, so like different languages, et cetera. Anne: Sure. Well, that's amazing. I think that's really wonderful. And that is an open source project that you began and put it out there? Zohaib: Exactly. Anne: That's really great, because I've always said that there's gotta be some sort of a way for us to figure out where is our voice being used. I mean, we have enough problems as it is, and I'm sure Tanja can identify that we don't know if our voice is being used, you know, in another region or, you know, another campaign that maybe we didn't agree to in the first place. I mean, that's always been -- Tanja: Right. Anne: -- you know, something that voice artists have been concerned with is usage. And there really hasn't been a way that I'm familiar with outside of some other voice talent and saying, "hey, I heard your commercial in California. I thought you said it was only for east coast." And so that's really how we found out before. So I would think with AI voices, I would hope, that there would be technology that would allow us to figure out where is this voice being used. And also, I guess my question would be, does that also take care of if let's say, 'cause you have a model, right? I can speak Spanish, even though I don't. So is there a way, is there hybrid models of, of AI voices, like two or three different people and then youcreate a whole new voice? Is that a thing to create new voices like that? And then if so, how do you know if your voice is involved in there? Zohaib: Yeah. So we've been experimenting with a technique that kind of does what you just described, which is like blending voices together. We've been using it largely for a different purpose. So we work with customers who are trying to get really particular pronunciation of words or a really particular performance, but they want to keep the original voice that they're, that they're using or the target voice. But that target voice, we just don't have enough data in that target place to get that kind of pronunciation. So typically what we've done in the past is refer using Tanja's voice and her voice has said something in particular, and you want to control exactly how she's pronouncing those words. What we typically do is augment her data with someone like your data. And then we kind of blend some of it together enough that we can disentangle the way that you're pronouncing, pronouncing the words versus how she's saying them. And we can blend different aspects of voices together that way. But yeah. Anne: Is that, is that like a separate model? Like, you know what I mean? Like is that like a new model that you've generated? Zohaib: You can think of it as a new model. Anne: Okay. Zohaib: You can think of it as new model, but our --so that's when you, when we say model, it's always kind of weird because models are models are comprised of models. Like there's a model that just does like emotion detection. There's a model that just does pitch detection. There's one that's just looking at languages and making sure it's conditioning on the right languages. There's one for like gender, et cetera, speaker. And these are all like disentangled pieces. And then you could, these are like blocks, and you could put one block with the other block and get something different, if that makes any sense, but they're fairly modular by design. Anne: Okay. Okay. Well, I do want to mention that I did check your website for any terms of service and ethics policies, which I just want to make sure that my BOSS listeners know that yes, I found a wonderful page on that. And I really liked that you had a statement that said once your voiced is created, that we own all the rights to that voice, and that you don't use that voice data to train other models, which is something I've not seen on some other websites that generate AI voices. So I appreciate that, nor do we resell the voice data to third-party companies. So yeah, I appreciate that you have that page. And I just want to kind of put that out there. So BOSSes know I like to work with companies that are concerned with ethics in this. It's kind of a crazy time for us as a lot of voice talent are fearful that they're going to be losing a lot of work. So with that, I think my last questions to you guys would be, first of all, Tanja, where do you see the future of voiceover, let's say, in five years? Tanja: That's a great question. So I really do think that we are in the beginning of a new market, but that said, I don't think that we're in danger as voice talent of losing our jobs. And just because AI is going to be very powerful, and companies are going to want to utilize it, because for them it's less paperwork. And maybe these are companies that don't necessarily go out on Fiverr or voices.com or look at people's websites to find talent. They just don't have the bandwidth, or they would rather just work with a third party where they have a selection of voices already available, and they just sign an NDA agreement or something, and then they move forward. And then, so these companies are normally, in my opinion, not places we would be searching for clients anyhow -- Anne: Yeah. Tanja: -- or not clients that are readily available to us in our search, auditions or working with our agents or what have you. So that said, a lot of these places are going to be using AI, in my opinion, mainly for IVR, conversational with all these apps that are coming out, new apps, continuously, virtual assistants, probably smaller characters in games, non-player characters, and even e-learning, I think e-learning is going to be huge, or even folks making their websites more accessible, I guess, to all, by having an AI read their blogs or maybe customizing ads. Anne: Right, sure. Tanja: So you, you get the idea, it's like it's endless of what the use cases could possibly be. I think that this is a nice blend, a nice way for voice talent, to get additional marketing that maybe they would have to do themselves. And it would take longer. They'd work with new clients that maybe they wouldn't have sought out initially. And also their voice would be used ethically, I would say in five years, because I think all the companies that are not paying attention to ethics right now, in five years, we're going to know who they are. There's only so far you can go -- Anne: Yeah, yeah. Tanja: -- before your -- somebody's going to come out, concerns are brought up. So yeah, I really do think, you know, we'll be more educated then as voice talent on what the market is. And I think if we get in on the market now, we'll be there when it's saturated in the future, we'll still be there. So I don't see any problems or concerns myself as a voice talent. We just need to educate ourselves and really ask those hard questions and make sure that it is something that we're comfortable with and then move forward. Passive income is never a bad thing. Anne: Well, I agree with you there. [laughs] Zohaib, where do you see the future of AI and the future of Resemble in five years? Zohaib: Yeah, so Tanja kind of mentioned all sorts of interesting concepts that we might see in the future or we're already seeing now. So that's, that's one thing. So there are a lot of interesting things that we can do. And honestly, I'm in the camp that I don't quite know exactly what the answer to that question is. I can make really good predictions, but a lot more people are a lot more creative than I am. So they will figure out where to use this. So already we have some interesting use cases within EdTech and within banks to like old companies that you would think would never do anything innovative, but since they have the solution now, they're able to be a bit more flexible with what they can do. But in the long run, I think a good parallel to look at is, if you look at how movies were made and especially like visuals, so you went from this world of actors to like stunt actors perhaps, or from stunt actors, actors, whatever you had for a long time, we did that little dance. We went to like a green screen -- Anne: Yeah. Zohaib: -- you know, which is more recent. Then we had like technology like mocap that came out where you just wear a suit, and then you kind of just do the action and maybe the face stays still. And that's, that's the rest. There's a, there's a movie on Netflix called The Irishman -- Anne: Yup. Zohaib: -- which they take, I believe, Robert DeNiro and make him older. And those are like all things that, you know, that's a very good path to look at when you're looking at audio, because we're lucky in audio that we're kind of the last people that people think about. It's like kind like the addition at the very end, like, oh no, we needed someone to voice over. And what I think we want to do is kind of become like the first thought that people have is like, oh, this is a core part of the -- Anne: Sure. Zohaib: -- entire movie or the entire product. Anne: Absolutely. Zohaib: And you have a lot of these scenarios where you have these gorgeous looking movies that get like really high budgets, and the, the dialogue and the VO is just so underwhelming because it's such a last minute effort to piece that together. And sometimes the writing and the dialogue doesn't kind of go hand in hand, or sometimes there's just not enough time to improvise as voiceover talent. And we kind of want to change the way that works. And I think like in five years or so, you will start seeing a lot more experiences that will involve AI voices. And I'm not sure if those experiences are what we see today. Perhaps you'll start seeing dubs of movies and films where the original voiceover talent is -- that type of voice is kept and the character is still kept, but they're now speaking Mandarin or Japanese or Spanish without worrying that, hey, it sounds like a different character that can be jarring to the entire experience. Anne: Right, right. Zohaib: So yeah, there's, I think there are plenty of things, but if you just take a peek at like the computer vision and the visual world, there's like a pretty clear path or some sort of a vague path where AI voices can go as well. Anne: Well, you guys have been so gracious. Thank you, both, so very much for joining me today and having such an interesting conversation. Where can my listeners go to find out more about you guys? Zohaib: Yeah. You can go to www.resemble.ai. We're also Resemble.AI on practically every social media thing out there. You can email any of us. You could get all of us if you email team@resemble.ai. They'll send an email to everybody. Yeah. You can find out more. Anne: Well, thank you, guys, again so very much. It's been a pleasure having you here. I am going to give a great, big shout-out to my sponsor, ipDTL. You two can connect like BOSSes and find out more at ipdtl.com. You guys, have an amazing week, and we'll see you next week. Bye! Zohaib: Bye. 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David Ault returns to the Sonic Society tonight after his tour with the No Sleep Podcast Live show, and we're proud to feature a creepy tale to celebrate: Campfire Radio Theater's Abduction at Willow Woods from John Ballentine! P.S. Check out the old promo at the beginning! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Ault returns to the Sonic Society tonight after his tour with the No Sleep Podcast Live show, and we're proud to feature a creepy tale to celebrate: Campfire Radio Theater's Abduction at Willow Woods from John Ballentine! P.S. Check out the old promo at the beginning! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time for Terror! Host Jeff Billard brings you Vampires of White Chapel #2.17, HG World 05-“A Simple Prop” (Pilot, Part 2) and The Thing on the Ground Part 1 from Campfire Radio Theater. Subscribe today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Time for Terror! Host Jeff Billard brings you Vampires of White Chapel #2.17, HG World 05-“A Simple Prop” (Pilot, Part 2) and The Thing on the Ground Part 1 from Campfire Radio Theater. Subscribe today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suppress those screams of horror! It's Tuesday Terror with Jeff Billard. This week we have Vampires of White Chapel #2.16, HG World #5.1 and The Ressurectionist Part 2 from Campfire Radio Theater! Don't scream, subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suppress those screams of horror! It's Tuesday Terror with Jeff Billard. This week we have Vampires of White Chapel #2.16, HG World #5.1 and The Ressurectionist Part 2 from Campfire Radio Theater! Don't scream, subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to the incredible Campfire Radio Theater from John Ballentinue with... The Resurrectionist- Part 1! A spiritual medium recalls harrowing experiences as a young girl traveling cross-country with her trucker father pursued by a mysterious cult. Along the way, they gain allies and enemies, both living and deceased. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to the incredible Campfire Radio Theater from John Ballentinue with... The Resurrectionist- Part 1! A spiritual medium recalls harrowing experiences as a young girl traveling cross-country with her trucker father pursued by a mysterious cult. Along the way, they gain allies and enemies, both living and deceased. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GERALD (HORROR) Amid an atmosphere of growing hysteria, a small town Minister is determined to get to the bottom of a series of unspeakable crimes just as his young son, Gerald, comes under the influence of a not-so imaginary friend. From the audio play by Bill Gray. Adapted by John Ballentine. Produced and Directed by Kevin Hartnell and John Ballentine. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

Tonight Jack and David close off Halloween month with “Rites of Autumn” from John Ballentine and Campfire Radio Theater as well as a new podfict A New Winter. It’s AUDIODRAMA TIME! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tonight Jack and David close off Halloween month with “Rites of Autumn” from John Ballentine and Campfire Radio Theater as well as a new podfict A New Winter. It's AUDIODRAMA TIME! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

THE THING ON THE GROUND FLOOR – Part 1 (HORROR) On October 31, 2019, the taping of a law enforcement reality show went terribly wrong as an unspeakable terror was unleashed on an unsuspecting film crew. We have the found footage “lost” tape of the legendary Talbert Building Incident. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

THE RESURRECTIONIST – Chapter 1 (HORROR) A spiritual medium recalls harrowing experiences as a young girl traveling cross-country with her trucker father pursued by a mysterious cult. Along the way, they gain allies and enemies, both living and deceased. Written, directed, and produced by John Ballentine. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

THE RESURRECTIONIST – Chapter 2 (HORROR) A spiritual medium recalls harrowing experiences as a young girl traveling cross-country with her trucker father pursued by a mysterious cult. Along the way, they gain allies and enemies, both living and deceased. Written, directed, and produced by John Ballentine. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

In preparation for the 40th anniversary of the classic Old Time Radio series- Nightfall from the CBC, Jack sits down to talk to John Scott Ballentine and Kevin Hartnell of the amazing Campfire Radio Theater podcast!

In preparation for the 40th anniversary of the classic Old Time Radio series- Nightfall from the CBC, Jack sits down to talk to John Scott Ballentine and Kevin Hartnell of the amazing Campfire Radio Theater podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD (HORROR) On the run from a bad relationship, Ellen is pursued into a moonlit wilderness by a freakish pale brute-forcing her to utilize dormant survival skills in a bloody game of cat and mouse. Based on the short story by Joe R. Lansdale. Adapted, produced, and directed by John Ballentine. CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

Investigating the disappearance of a colleague, BBC journalist Albert Titus lands the scoop of a lifetime in the Scottish coastal village of Redmayne as he unravels a terrifying mystery perhaps tied to a sinister cannibal clan of legend. Written, directed and produced by John Ballentine Check out Campfire Radio Theater for full details. 

A chilling mystery unfolds in 1900 off the Scottish coast as Joseph Moore arrives at the Flannan Island Lighthouse to find it cold and abandoned... its keepers vanished. Will a blood-stained journal reveal a clue to their dark fate or resurrect an ancient long-dead curse? Written, directed and produced by John Ballentine Check out Campfire Radio Theater for full details. 

It's the first episode of Tuesday Terror for 2020 and your host Jeff Billard brings you a trilogy of terror including-The Byron Chronicles #202, Ravenous from Campfire Radio Theater and Daniel Dread #6. All the very best to you all and have a spooky New Year! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the first episode of Tuesday Terror for 2020 and your host Jeff Billard brings you a trilogy of terror including-The Byron Chronicles #202, Ravenous from Campfire Radio Theater and Daniel Dread #6. All the very best to you all and have a spooky New Year!

It's Tuesday Terror! Hogn Bell brings you The Byron Chronicles #107, followed by The Grist Mill "God of Razer" and finally Campfire Radio Theater's "Night Delivery" right here on the Mutual Audio Network where screams come free with each subscription!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host for your horrors on the 13th floor of the Mutual Audio Network, Jeff Billard brings you Byron Chronicles #5, The Grist Mill- The Appointment Book, and the final part of RIP from Campfire Radio Theater. A trilogy of terror awaits on your Tuesday Terror!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host for your horrors on the 13th floor of the Mutual Audio Network, Jeff Billard brings you Byron Chronicles #5, The Grist Mill- The Appointment Book, and the final part of RIP from Campfire Radio Theater. A trilogy of terror awaits on your Tuesday Terror! 

Jeff Billard brings you Tuesday Terrors this week beginning with Byron Chronicles #104, followed by The Grist Miller- Gravedigger's Brew, and finally Campfire Radio Theater retirns with RIP- Part 1. Three tales of terror only on Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jeff Billard brings you Tuesday Terrors this week beginning with Byron Chronicles #104, followed by The Grist Miller- Gravedigger's Brew, and finally Campfire Radio Theater retirns with RIP- Part 1. Three tales of terror only on Mutual!

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It's a very special Tuesday with a trilogy of Terror beginning with the pilot episode of The Byron Chronicles from Eric Busby, the final episode of Blood Noir from Mark Slade #32- The Will and the Ghost in You and finally The Philadelphia Experiment from Campfire Radio Theater! More fears to get your freak on, on Mutual!

It's a very special Tuesday with a trilogy of Terror beginning with the pilot episode of The Byron Chronicles from Eric Busby, the final episode of Blood Noir from Mark Slade #32- The Will and the Ghost in You and finally The Philadelphia Experiment from Campfire Radio Theater! More fears to get your freak on, on Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's terror time with Tuesday Terror! Time for Blood Noir #31- Libby's Hands from Mark Slade and "War of the Worlds" from Campfire Radio Theater and John Ballentine. Terrors more terrifying on Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's terror time with Tuesday Terror! Time for Blood Noir #31- Libby's Hands from Mark Slade and "War of the Worlds" from Campfire Radio Theater and John Ballentine. Terrors more terrifying on Mutual!

Host Tanja Milojevic provides the spooky setup for this week's Tuesday Terror beginning with Darker Musings: Tulpa a short from EVP, then we have the next Blood Noir #22 from Mark Slade and finally from Campfire Radio Theater, "Hungry Hollow". Horror is Hellaciously heart-stopping in Mutual!

Host Tanja Milojevic provides the spooky setup for this week's Tuesday Terror beginning with Darker Musings: Tulpa a short from EVP, then we have the next Blood Noir #22 from Mark Slade and finally from Campfire Radio Theater, "Hungry Hollow". Horror is Hellaciously heart-stopping in Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's terrifying! It's horrifying! It's Tuesday Terror with host John Bell three tales to tremble beginning with an EVP short-I'm Home, followed by Mark Slade's Blood Noir #21- The List, and finally Campfire Radio Theater's- Twilight Road! Find your fears with Mutual!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Jack Ward finds you warming by the fire with the Lost Hobo with "John" from EVP Productions and the Dead Line Anthologies followed by Blood Noir #20- "Found Tape" and finally a recreation from John Ballentine and Campfire Radio Theater with "The Haunted Cell". Happy Horror Day from Mutual!

Host Jack Ward finds you warming by the fire with the Lost Hobo with "John" from EVP Productions and the Dead Line Anthologies followed by Blood Noir #20- "Found Tape" and finally a recreation from John Ballentine and Campfire Radio Theater with "The Haunted Cell". Happy Horror Day from Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host John Bell scares up our lineup for Tuesday beginning with EVP's "Deathbed Confessions", followed by Blood Noir #19 "Nothing There, and finally from Campfire Radio Theater, "The Master's Hungry Children" fears as thick as fog on Terror Tuesday's Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host John Bell scares up our lineup for Tuesday beginning with EVP's "Deathbed Confessions", followed by Blood Noir #19 "Nothing There, and finally from Campfire Radio Theater, "The Master's Hungry Children" fears as thick as fog on Terror Tuesday's Mutual!

Host David Ault brings us a trilogy of terror for this Tuesday with the EVP Dead Line short "Sherry", Blood Noir #18- "The Anniversary",  and finally "Night Chills" from Campfire Radio Theater. Summer horror begins this week on Mutual! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host David Ault brings us a trilogy of terror for this Tuesday with the EVP Dead Line short "Sherry", Blood Noir #18- "The Anniversary",  and finally "Night Chills" from Campfire Radio Theater. Summer horror begins this week on Mutual!

It's time for terror and host David Ault shovels through the gravesite of horror beginning with Ele Matlin's "Sour Toe Shuffle", and continuing with the Blood Noir #16 from Mark Slade, and ending off with a Mutual Audio premiere of Campfire Radio Theater's "Demon Eyes". Hold tight your stakes and crosses! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"We are New(s)," by Bentley A. Reese -- published in Apex Magazine, issue 106, March 2018. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com Bentley A. Reese is a Wisconsin-born writer who has always had a love for Science Fiction. He has been published in many magazines, such as Shimmer, Bourbon Penn, and now (to his complete surprise and utter joy) within the pages of Apex. An alumni of UW-Madison, Bentley is currently one of few genre writers studying at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He wrote this piece last fall while studying abroad in London and walking the streets of Whitechapel. This Apex Magazine podcast was produced by KT Bryski. Music in this podcast included "Ice Flow," "Harmful or Fatal," "In a Heartbeat," "Severe Tire Damage," and "The Dread," all by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Visit him at www.incompetech.com. Other sounds in this podcast provided by the Free Sound Project -- find out more at www.freesound.org.  Our narrator for this episode is Blythe Haynes. Blythe is a Toronto-based actor and voice talent. Select theatre credits include, "In His Name" (Canadian History Project), "The Killdeer" (Alumnae Theatre), and "Mary's Wedding" (Toronto Fringe Festival). Select podcast credits include "Campfire Radio Theater," "Six Stories, Told at Night," "The Drabblecast," and "Tales from the Archives." With KT Bryski, Blythe is one of the co-founders of Gangway! Theatre Co. She looks forward to returning to the Toronto Fringe in 2018 with a stage adaptation of KT Bryski's "Six Stories, Told at Night." Apex Magazine podcast, Copyright Apex Publications. Apex Magazine is a monthly short fiction zine focused on dark science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Find us at http://www.apex-magazine.com.

"Origin Story," by Ursula Vernon (writing as T. Kingfisher) -- published in Apex Magazine, issue 104, January 2018. Read it here: http://www.apex-magazine.com/ Ursula Vernon is the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Mythopoeic Awards. She has written a number of children’s books, short stories, and comics, and writes for adults under the name T. Kingfisher. She likes fairy-tale retellings, gardening, and has strong opinions about heirloom beans. You can find more of her work at redwombatstudio.com. This Apex Magazine podcast was produced by KT Bryski. Music in this podcast included "Virtutes Intstrumenti," "Vanishing," and "Long Note Four," all by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License. Find out more at www.incompetech.com. Other sounds in this podcast provided by the Free Sound Project; learn more at www.freesound.org. Our narrator for this episode is Blythe Haynes. Blythe is a Toronto-based actor and voice talent. Select theatre credits include, "In His Name" (Canadian History Project), "The Killdeer" (Alumnae Theatre), and "Mary's Wedding" (Toronto Fringe Festival). Select podcast credits include "Campfire Radio Theater," "Six Stories, Told at Night," "The Drabblecast," and "Tales from the Archive." With KT Bryski, Blythe is one of the co-founders of Gangway! Theatre Co. She looks forward to returning to the Toronto Fringe in 2018, with a stage adaptation of KT Bryski's "Six Stories, Told at Night." Apex Magazine podcast, Copyright Apex Publications. Apex Magazine is a monthly short fiction zine focused on dark science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Find us at http://www.apex-magazine.com.

A double-feature this week as we begin our October horror series!First, from Paragon Collective and the makers of Darkest Night, it's Deadly Manners, a new murder mystery show narrated by LeVar Burton (Star Trek, Reading Rainbow) and starring Kristen Bell (Frozen, Veronica Mars) and Anna Chlumsky (Veep).CW: racism, misogyny, and murder!Then, it's a chilling tale of family business in Rites of Autumn, a spooky little tale of tradition, pumpkins, and more murder. That comes to us from John Ballantine of Campfire Radio Theater.CW: more murder, gruesome descriptions

Don't say his name...***Presented by: Campfire Radio Theater (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/campfire-radio-theater/id492465503?mt=2)***Written by: Vincent Venacava***Sound design by: John Ballentine See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

DEATH AND ALCHEMY (HORROR) An obsessive doctor unleashes dark elemental forces in a mad quest to resurrect the dead in Victorian London. Adapted from the short story “The Doctor In The Dungeon” by Patrick Moody. Adapted, directed and produced by John Ballentine. Campfire Radio Theater  

RAVENOUS (HORROR) LANGUAGE Investigating the disappearance of a colleague, BBC journalist Albert Titus lands the scoop of a lifetime in the Scottish coastal village of Redmayne as he unravels a terrifying mystery perhaps tied to a sinister cannibal clan of legend. Written, directed and produced by John Ballentine. Co-produced by Kevin Hartnell.  CAMPFIRE RADIO THEATER

I got this email...***Presented by Campfire Radio Theater (http://campfireradiotheater.podbean.com/)***Sound design by John Ballentine***Intro/Outro by Joe Stofko***Music by Alex Aldea See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David Ault returns to the Sonic Society tonight after his tour with the No Sleep Podcast Live show, and we're proud to feature a creepy tale to celebrate: Campfire Radio Theater's Abduction at Willow Woods from John Ballentine!

ABDUCTION AT WILLOW WOODS (HORROR) LANGUAGE Two old friends unearth lost secrets from their youth when they revisit the wooded site of an otherworldly encounter. Written, directed and produced by John Ballentine. Campfire Radio Theater

Tonight Jack and David close off Halloween month with "Rites of Autumn" from John Ballentine and Campfire Radio Theater as well as a new podfict A New Winter. It's AUDIODRAMA TIME!

RITES OF AUTUMN (HORROR) A young boy spends an autumn afternoon with his grandpa who passes on a few very unique and disturbing Halloween traditions. Written, directed and produced by John Ballentine. Campfire Radio Theater  

This week, say goodbye to Spooktember and HELLO TO SHOCKTOBER! ThunderboltWe’re beginning a month of spookitude, commencing with John Ballentine and Campfire Radio Theater. This piece is called “Woods Ferry”, about a band of weekend treasure hunters who travel to a South Carolina ghost town, only to discover ~exactly~ why it was abandoned.This is a binaural piece; listen with headphones if you can!

Sound effects and soundscapes are an integral part of your Audio Drama, and often the best way to get your hands on that perfect sound you envisaged when you wrote the show is to go ahead and make it yourself.Direct DownloadJohn Ballentine of Campfire Radio Theater is this episode’s guest contributor, and he’ll be offering up some hints and tips on how to create anything, from a gun clicking, to the sound of the world burning under an apocalyptic Martian invasion.There’s also a brief segment afterwards covering some of our own sound effects, which are all available for you to use on the Freesound website.

WHISPERS FROM HELL (HORROR/HALLOWEEN) Harmless pranks turn dark as a young woman fears a voyeuristic predator may be stalking her from the shadows of peaceful suburbia where a dreadful secret lies in the cemetery next door. Warning: Contains explicit language and frightening situations not suitable for younger audiences. Campfire Radio Theater 

A chilling mystery unfolds in 1900 off the Scottish coast as Joseph Moore arrives at the Flannan Island Lighthouse to find it cold and abandoned… its keepers vanished. Will a blood-stained journal reveal a clue to their dark fate or resurrect an ancient long-dead curse? We're pleased to welcome back Campfire Radio Theater with the […] The post Ghosts of Flannan Lighthouse – From Campfire Radio Theater appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

A chilling mystery unfolds in 1900 off the Scottish coast as Joseph Moore arrives at the Flannan Island Lighthouse to find it cold and abandoned... its keepers vanished. Will a blood-stained journal reveal a clue to their dark fate or resurrect an ancient long-dead curse?We're pleased to welcome back Campfire Radio Theater with the spooktacular talents of John Ballentine as writer, director, and producer, with U.K. production directed by Matthew McLean and team Yap Audio!Download Radio Drama Revival - Episode 423The post Episode 423 – Investigating the Ghosts of Flannan Lighthouse appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

NIGHT DELIVERY (HORROR/HALLOWEEN) MATURE THEMES LANGUAGE A rookie late night radio DJ is entangled in the web of a beguiling young beauty in red and devilish reverse rock lyrics as a dark wave of violence sweeps 1980s Atlanta. Campfire Radio Theater

The music you use can make or break your production, so it’s about time we talked about it on the podcast. On this episode, a household name in Audio Drama – the legendary Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com – joins us to chat about the creative commons model, his workload, and the ways you can potentially commission him in the future to score your own shows.On top of that, we’ve brought another great composer to the table, friend of the show, the tirelessly prolific Kevin Hartnell. You’ll have probably heard his work already in some recent Campfire Radio Theater shows, and he’s already created a big library of music for our up and coming anthology series Valenhigh.Some of the things mentioned on the show, Kevin McLeod’s Patreon account. GLS microphones. And the fact that we’ve turned Tuesdays into “Reviewsdays” to encourage you to take a few minutes each week to rate and review your favourite audio drama shows on directories like iTunes and Stitcher.

The dilemma faced by all audio drama creators at some stage is whether they should make a serialised story, or an anthology series.Here we give examples of two of our favourite serial dramas, Edict Zero FIS, and We’re Alive, and two of our favourite anthology series’, The Truth, and Campfire Radio Theater. We go on to cover the advantages and disadvantages of each method, as well as offering our own opinions, and revealing details of our first steps into a post-Aftermath series of our own (but will it be an anthology or a serial?).

We’ve come up with a list of ways you can help your fellow audio dramatists to succeed and grow, which aims to help the whole audio drama community move forward as one. After that, we have a great clip from Kessi Riliniki, creator of Those Who Sing, with some clever tips on keeping silent characters in the picture and creating a more lifelike soundscape. We also mention Episode 6 with Matthew Boudreau after talk of A Prophet’s Guide, Campfire Radio Theater’s Ghosts of Flannan Lighthouse, our brand new VoiceMap route, set in Edinburgh, titled “The Royal Mile”, and our Patreon page.

GHOSTS OF FLANNAN LIGHTHOUSE (MYSTERY) A chilling mystery unfolds in 1900 off the Scottish coast as Joseph Moore arrives at the Flannan Island Lighthouse to find it cold and abandoned... its keepers vanished. Will ablood-stained journal reveal a clue to their dark fate or resurrect an ancient long-dead curse? Campfire Radio Theater    

Continuing on with our location recording discussion, John Ballentine of Campfire Radio Theater talks about the making of the brilliant Hungry Hollow…“We used a Zoom recorder, it’s a Zoom H2N, and we actually used the built in microphones, we didn’t use an external microphone to record with. The Zoom is a handy little recorder; it does a lot of things really well, it fits in the palm of your hand, you can take it anywhere.One of the things I thought my main use for it would be was recording sound effects and ambient environments for use in the show. The more I played with it I thought “well this thing sounds pretty good”, I think it sounds more or less as good as my studio mic setup.So I felt pretty confident about taking it in the field, taking it on location, and trying to record a show with it. We put it on a tripod, took it out in the woods, and that’s how we recorded Hungry Hollow.We sort of blocked some movement around the Zoom, and sat it on a tripod. We didn’t actually do any movement with the recorder itself, we just kind of kept it stationary and have actors move around it. And we didn’t do a lot of movement, not nearly as much as I really probably would’ve liked to.We did some very basic blocking, and had an actor positioned off to one side, or another actor positioned more centrally, and then we might have somebody that enters the scene, and they might enter from the far left or far right, then somebody exits the scene and you have that movement.”

This week, we feature an appetizer of location horror followed by a full-on meal, the former by our own FinalRune Productions and the latter by John Ballentine's Campfire Radio Theater. Earlier this year, host Fred Greenhalgh was invited to participate in the founding a new kind of way to get kids to interact with the […] The post A Return to “Hungry Hollow” appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

RIP – PART 1 (HORROR) MATURE THEMES Newlyweds on the final eve of their honeymoon are haunted by the ghosts of old Whitechapel as a mysterious pub patron breathes terrifying new life into the bloody terror that gripped the streets of Victorian London. Campfire Radio Theater  

THE PHILADELPHIA XPERIMENT (SCI-FI-HORROR) EXPLICIT LANGUAGEAND MATURE THEMES Confined to a mental ward in 1951 and awaiting his impending lobotomy, an enigmatic WW2 veteran known only as Patient X recalls an ill-fated experiment to render a U.S. warship invisible resulting in nightmarish side effects for the survivors as well as uncovering a mind-bending temporal terror. Campfire Radio Theater  

DREAMING OF A DEAD CHRISTMAS (HORROR) LANGUAGE Two college coeds returning home for the holidays unwittingly unleash a zombie outbreak at a truck-stop after running over a mysterious man on a desolate country road. Campfire Radio Theater  

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (HALLOWEEN/HORROR) MATURE THEMES LANGUAGE A young woman's cell phone diary chronicles the end of days first hand as deadly alien war machines emerge from fallen meteorites and rain fiery destruction upon an unsuspecting populace. A new adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic! Campfire Radio Theater  

Our audio horror ‘treats' continue this week with a new discovery (to us) – the fantastic talents of Campfire Radio Theater. The tale we have for you today is the spooky classic ghost-story with fresh take tale “Hungry Hollow.” A few hikers disappear in the woods and find a lost woman. The ravishing runaway sets […] The post Episode 353 – Entering the “Hungry Hollow” with Campfire Radio Theater appeared first on Radio Drama Revival.

THE DENTIST (HORROR) A new dental assistant is drawn into a perplexing mystery as many of Dr. Stewart's patients emerge from the office in a dazed stupor with a dead look in their eyes. Paranoia and dread soon take hold as she begins to suspect her kindly boss may be engaging in a terrifyingly macabre practice.  Adapted from the NIGHTFALL classic! Campfire Radio Theater  

HUNGRY HOLLOW (HORROR) On a weekend camping trip, three boyhood friends rescue an enchanting young hiker lost in the mountains but soon find themselves pawns in a dark ritual as old as the hills with lethal consequences. And as shadows grow longer, a hideous truth emerges regarding the campfire legends of a wrathful old woman said to inhabit the valley.  Campfire Radio Theater  

TWILIGHT ROAD (HALLOWEEN/HORROR) A young woman, pronounced dead hours earlier, springs to life on the embalming table. Haunted by disembodied voices and recollections of a shadowy afterlife, Cerina is desperate to escape the ghoulish confines of the city morgue. Might she suffer delusions due to her accident or is something far more grisly amiss?Campfire Radio Theater  

THE HAUNTED CELL (THRILLER) An audio adaptation by Campfire Radio Theater of the classic Lights Out Tale of the Haunted Cell as presented on the Sonic Society radio program. Sonic Summerstock Theatre  

THE MASTER’S HUNGRY CHILDREN (HORROR) As World War 2 draws to a close, a squad of bullying Nazis occupy a remote Romanian village populated by old men, women and livestock. But all is not as it appears as a bitter Winter night falls and the German's find themselves stalked by something far more bloodthirsty than the pursuing Red Army. Campfire Radio Theater  

NIGHT CHILLS (HALLOWEEN/HORROR) Justin and Jill were content in their new home until the unexplained noises, the icy rooms and a terrifying dead of the night visitor. Campfire Radio Theater  

DEMON EYES (HORROR) Rookie FBI agent Sara Gowan must locate the missing victims of serial killer Wesley Morrow before his execution. Will Morrow’s mysterious eyeglasses provide insight into the frightful truth? Campfire Radio Theater