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Super cool, Deebs! The lessons you teach for games also apply to other genres, too, and it'll be a shame we can't see it unless we're there in person—riiiiiight?

Hosted by: Dervla Trainor
SEASON 4
MAY 4-7, 2026

Chuck Duran and some other industry pros will be speaking at this free online event.

https://www.vospeakerseries.com/

Anyone ever been?

I don't game much, but it would be amazing to see a world where the NPCs can say whatever comes to their mind—all AI of course—while the voice actor whose voice was cloned gets fairly compensated for that. There are responsible uses of AI, but how we get there... some big huge game development shop ...

Response from Hover. Basically, if you use these guys for business email... maybe don't. Times have changed. Their response times are slow, and they're not supporting modern methods.

Hi Mike,

Thank you for reaching out to Hover Support with such a great technical question. My name is Nicole, and ...

Well, my situation will never allow me to use a desktop app; I'm addicted to Google for different reasons. Mostly, it's that I use Streak CRM for Gmail, and, well... it runs on top of Gmail :lol:

Over the weekend, I migrated my mike@speakingofmike.com from my current setup over to Google Workspace ...

This is probably a very niche problem, but hey. I'm not the only one...

In Gmail, I have an external business email address (mike@speakingofmike.com) that is checked using POP3 (Post Office Protocol). I can also send as that address from within Gmail, making my personal Gmail account a convenient ...

I think jingles are officially becoming a trend in spots now.

On Pandora (free w/ads) I've been hearing them more and more.
- Gain laundry detergent
- TurboTax
- Adobe Acrobat
- Indeed (has some kind of weird jingle-mnemonic in the middle)
- Old Spice
- A few others I can't recall

Anyone else ...

If a pig loses its voice…does it become... disgruntled?

In other news, an owl lost its voice. It didn’t give a hoot.