Remember back in the 80′s when  home answering machines were all the rage? Everybody had to have a novelty message as their greeting. From celebrity voices to whole families taking turns saying their names on the greeting.

Now a similar thing is happening with GPS devises. The Knight Rider voice guy, William Daniels has voiced a GPS device. That would be fun.

Plus there’s this GPS site with various celebrities impersonated telling you which way to turn.

Voice Commercial actors are having fun doing this, I am sure.

Here’s the video–

The changes in media have shuffled a lot of voice people around but it looks like many of them are getting new jobs doing things like these announcements.

New markets opening up include

  • podcasting
  • online radio
  • books on tape (on kindle)
  • video games
  • good old radio automation
  • satellite radio
  • websites

New media is exploding and there are new applications for commercial voices everyday.

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