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Engle Coulter

Mission Statement

Empowering brands with impactful voiceovers: grounded in excellence, integrity, and service!

EXPECTATIONS, RETAKES, REVISIONS, & AI POLICIES

eXPECTATIONS fROM ME

  • Collaboration in understanding your needs as my client
  • Provide a free audio watermarked sample, ensuring my voice is the right fit for your project
  • Communication of my progress of the project until completion (if more than a two-day project, i.e., audiobooks)
  • Forging a lasting business relationship
  • Every order is unique and I charge per the GVAA Rate Guide
  • INTEGRITY, CUSTOMER EXCELLENCE, SERVICE

RETAKES & REVISIONS

Retakes (my mistakes) are included at no cost.
Revisions (changes made to the script after recording):

  • Collaboration in understanding your needs as my client
  • Provide a free audio watermarked sample, ensuring my voice is the right fit for your project
  • Communication of my progress of the project until completion (if more than a two-day project, i.e., audiobooks)
  • Forging a lasting business relationship
  • Every order is unique and I charge per the GVAA Rate Guide
  • INTEGRITY, CUSTOMER EXCELLENCE, SERVICE
 
Performance Retakes (undirected sessions):
 
For undirected sessions, where I am recording the files in my studio at my own direction and sending them to you if you need me to redo lines for performance reasons, I’m happy to do one round of Performance Retakes at no cost. Please try to communicate all directions and/or changes of direction currently. After the first round of retakes, subsequent rounds are charged as Revisions, above.
 
If retakes are required for pronunciation preferences that are not specified in advance either by a pronunciation guide or otherwise in writing, these will be treated as Revisions and are billable. Examples: “ee-ther” vs. “eye-ther,” “off-ten” vs. “off-en,” “oh” vs. “zero.”
 
When sending a change request, please highlight the lines in the original script or list the full sentence to be re-recorded, the sentence before, and the sentence after so I know what I’m talking about. If applicable, please include the time index of the video so I can better match tone and pace.
 
Please submit all change requests within 30 days of receiving the original recording. After 30 days, all change requests will be charged the original rates.

NEW & INTERNATIONAL CLIENTS (OUTSIDE THE U.S.)

New domestic (US) and all international clients are billed 50% of the project’s total price unless otherwise agreed upon.

AI/SYNTHETIC VOICES POLICIES

Client expressly agrees not to utilize any portion of the recording or performance of Talent for purposes other than those specified in the initial Agreement between the parties including but not limited to creation of synthetic voices or for machine learning.

Specifically, Client shall not utilize any recording or performance of Talent to simulate Talent’s voice or likeness or to create any synthesized or “digital double” voice or likeness of Talent.

The client specifically agrees not to sell or transfer ownership of all or part of any of the recordings or performances of Talent to any third party without Talent’s knowledge and consent.

The client agrees not to enter into any agreements or contracts on behalf of Talent which utilizes all or any part of any of the recordings or performance of Talent without Talent’s knowledge and consent.

Client agrees that any recordings or performances stored in digital format will be reasonably stored so that unauthorized third parties may not gain access to the files containing Talent’s voice or likeness, and if such files are stored in “the cloud.” Client agrees to safeguard same through encryption or other “up-to date” technological means.