“We go through all these things and talk about all these problems with annoying sounds and how important it is for the bellows sounds to be informative. And all this just hearkens back to the point where the essential goal here of these so-called auditory ‘alarms’ isn’t to alarm, it’s to notify. And I think […]
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In the Clubhouse: The Alarms in Hospitals are Killing Us – Part 1
“Persuading hospitals and manufacturers to adopt better alarms aside from the standard is to persuade them that this is important and that it’s cool to do so, and that this is what everybody is doing and it’s a selling point for you if you’re using better alarms or more safe alarms or your false alarm […]
Sounding Your Best as a Podcast Guest
🎤Download my Sounding Your Best as a Podcast Guest worksheet here!🎤 After fifteen years in the voiceover industry, almost three years of hosting the Audio Branding podcast where I talk about the power of sound, and having been a guest on a number of podcasts myself, I’ve learned a thing or two about creating quality […]
A Sixth Sense for Sound: An Interview with Colleen Fahey – Part 2
“They often have a suite of sounds. Now you still have to follow all regulations that have to do with safety and that kind of thing, but now the sound inside the car can be reflected in the marketing communications around it, so that’s a very big use of sound.” — Colleen Fahey This […]
A Sixth Sense for Sound: An Interview with Colleen Fahey – Part 1
“All news music doesn’t have to have trumpets and trombones, and all trains don’t have to just ring, you know, or honk. And all appliances shouldn’t always sound like ‘beep beep beep,’ you know, chip sounds instead of having a tune that would make people remember them better and maybe like them better.” — Colleen […]
Sines and Sounds: An Interview with Nicolae Bogdan Bratis – Part 2
“What’s great about podcasting is there’s that intimacy there. It’s just audio. It’s really fun when I listen to a podcast or I edit a podcast and I don’t know what the guest looks like, I don’t know anything about a guest, and I’m trying to imagine what type of personality that guest has. And […]