Yes, even your cheep American voice actors are being outsourced to China. Basically, myself and every othet American at ECNU was offered a voice actor positon by some lady on campus, some guy then invited me to a hotel for a recording session, I read a few things, and walked out with 200RMB. I believe most of what I read will be used as sort of computer's voice. It is nice to know that when the machines rise up to enslave humanity nuturianal ration machine shouting "declined" at you for useing your food rations outside of designated meal times will have my voicse. In reality, I believe most of my recordings will be usex by some cheap phone (a Coolpad 7733 perhaps): I mostly read weird names (like "Atlas" and "Bixbe"), greatings, and phone functions (like "check messages" or "play music"). I also read two kind of confusing passages about Americanisms and the US real estate market. They were both clearly written by a Chinese guy since they both lacked most puncuation, had strange grammer, and did not have any paragraph breaks. I think these will be used for a cheap "teach yourself English" CD. The whole process was a bot sketchy, but no more sketchy than China normally is. I never actually met the guy on WeChat who directed me to a hotel by low cost campus where the recordings were being done in a random room on the technician's ageing laptop with proably pirated software. The technician spoke about as much English as I did Chinese and clearly just memorized a few key phrases in English to tell the actors, I actually found it easier to talk to the guy in Chinese. All in all, I still have all of my organs and am 200RMB richer so I guess I could recomend becomming a low budget American voice actor.
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Dad
10/24/2016 06:04:19 am
Glad you still have both kidneys. 200 rmb will not cover the cost of dialysis.
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sharon
10/24/2016 06:09:35 am
OMG - I am cracking up!
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DAd
10/24/2016 07:04:37 am
PS: Maybe you have a career ahead of you translating menus at American style restaurants in Shanghai into bad English. Kind of the reverse of CHinese food menus in the US
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