Voice-overs - a variety of uses
Ben Baxter is a professional UK voice-over artist specialising in cost-effective voiceovers for:

Telephone answering machines -- giving your company a professional image from your customer's first point of contact - your answerphone greeting. Cost effective branding that gives your company the professional edge.
Also ideal for virtual offices and telephone answering services.
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On-hold messages -- why record messages with background office noise giving an unprofessional company image? Use it as a calming tool to raise awareness of other products or services that your company provides. Highly effective yet low cost, proved to reduce caller abandonment whilst increasing your company image and your customer's awareness of your products and services.

Voice prompts -- to assist a caller to efficiently locate the most relevant department within your company. Professionally recorded, it presents callers with an image of an organised company office structure.

Information messages -- to provide callers with information such as opening times, directions, special events or offers.

Premium rate telephone lines -- such as prize lines or information services to provide recorded information to callers.

Website greetings -- welcome visitors to your website and add a dimension of sound. We can supply your audio as a Flash file which downloads quickly and automatically and invisibly plays on your web page.

Presentations -- narration of PowerPoint presentations to add a professional edge, adds impact to key points or the summary and allows the presentation file to be distributed on the web or CD.

Podcasts -- a new way to explain and sell new products or services through your website, or a great sounding introduction to your own podcast 'show'

Bands / musical groups / performers -- just hand a CD to the stage manager that introduces your act to the audience for a professional introduction onto the stage! Order different tracks for a post interval intro or other eventualities

Interactive multimedia & software -- narration or voices, e.g. narration on help pages or 'getting started' presentations

Corporate event announcements -- for conferences to introduce guests, presentations, supplied as MP3 or WAV files for easy playback at the event or later incorporation into PowerPoint presentations

Online product videos -- filmed yourself on a digital camera or captured from camcorder and edited in Windows Movie Maker for your company website or CD ROMs, my voice can be used as a narration, describing, explaining and selling what your customers are watching.

Radio stations -- for commercials, promos, drop-ins, etc.
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Corporate video narration -- economical voice-overs for production companies large and small.

In-store announcements -- paging, special offers, events, safety announcements, closing time - provided on audio CD for the multichanger, or WAV/MP3 for the computerised music system

Safety announcements -- at theme parks, heritage centres, exhibitions, shops/supermarkets, in factories/warehouses/workshops, or as part of fire/security/alarm systems

...and much more!

As heard on:

Mix 102.3, Adeleide
Sands FM, Gran Canaria
Atlantis FM, Lanzarote
Eurovisio Radio, Belgium
Zurich Insurance Customer Survey Line
Royal London Insurance IVR
National Trust IVR
Westminster City Council IVR
Legal & General IVR
Home Delivery Network IVR
Marks & Spencer
Co-operative Financial Services
Scottish Provident IVR
Camelot IVR
Selfridges IVR
Lombard IVR
Britannia IVR
UK Consumer Protection Agency
Student Halls of Residence switchboards / voicemail across the UK
Radio Extra News, Africa
FM100
BIRSt online radio
Magic 1170, UK
Radio Glamorgan, Wales
Carat International podcast
Ocean FM, UK
107 Oak FM, UK
Centre FM, UK
Q96FM, Scotland
Telephone lines around the country
Retail chains around the UK
AV presentations across Europe
Websites all over the world

Customer comments:

"We are delighted with the recording you produced and promise to use you again. Thanks for the fast turn-around and welcoming recording - the answer-phone message is simply superb."
- Sky Design

"You've done a very good job and I'm very pleased with your response, time, price, quality - everything is perfect."
- Montgomery Kingston

"Thanks Ben - great service and speed again."
- Technical Assist, Lancashire

"I am very impressed with the end result and the fast efficient service."
- IT Vision

"The answer phone message is absolutely fantastic! "
- IR Hayter

"These are just what I wanted! Thank you! I don't like recording the messages myself, and this is 1000 times better than the robotic BT woman"

"Exactly what I needed. I am very impressed with the quick turn around and quality of your service."

"The tracks all work fine and sound excellent. It certainly gives our business a professional image and provides our customers with a very good first impression. Thanks again for all your help; I’ve no doubt we’ll be in touch again in the future with more work for you."

"Just downloaded and listened to the file, it’s just what was required, thanks very much! We’ll certainly be using you again"
- DFL, Manchester

"It sounded brilliant, and downloaded fast. I think the voice overs are fantastic! I will not hestiate in telling others about your services. Thanks once again for a truly professional service, at good value for the smaller company."
- 118 500 Directory

"Your voice is fantastic and my dental website has been a REAL success, people love to hear your voice on the happy smile uk website, as it makes visitors feel welcome...I am getting excellent feedback"
- Happy Smile UK

"Thanks for the mp3s. They were great. We have got the ad finished, and hopefully it should be on air in the next week or two. We really appreciated the fast turnaround, and will bear you in mind if we require any more done. Thanks again for the prompt and professional treatment of our work. Truly amazing."
- Ann MacMillan
  MacMillan School of Music and Drama

"Thank you so much I am very impressed. You certainly have an excellent voice."
- Let's Play Photography

"I am very pleased with the result and hope to do business with you again in the future."
- The Outdoor Barn

"Absolutely great, very professional – I am delighted"
- Cardz Unique

"Fantastic quality....just what I needed for my website. I WILL be using your services again very soon."
- Raven VOIP

"Just wanted to say thanks for the voiceover you did for me, it’s just what we needed and I’ll be sure to keep you in mind for anything else which might come up."
- Ask4

"Thanks for a great voiceover, done in record time. The video was shown a few days later to 400 people and it was a great success."
- Jonathan Greenwood

"Thank you for your voice-over. We are all really pleased with it. It really gives a nice, professional edge to our business. Keep up the good work."
- Olivia, LCVS

"Fantastic job. Sounds great. I will recommend you to a few bands I know. Thanks for the speedy service."
- Leighton Davies, Fuel

"I purchased an answer machine message from yourself round about 2 years ago and still using it today ...its great and thank you"
- Kenny McVey

"Just listened to it and it's GREAT!!! Thank you."
- Ali Air Freshener

"Thank you very much for the voiceovers I really appreciate that you recorded it twice. It is exactly what I was looking for."
- Casa Mancini

"Thanks for that. Exactly what I needed. I am very impressed with the quick turn around and quality of your service."
- Diarmuid Ma Alasdair

"Many thanks for your voiceover recording, it’s excellent. I will recommend you to my colleagues."
- Jon Dunn

"The response from my colleagues has been great, so no doubt I'll be in touch regarding other projects in the pipeline soon."