John Miles Voice Overs: The AOL "You've Got Mail!" man

Thursday, September 29, 2011

The AOL "You've Got Mail!" man

Ask any friend or stranger who Elwood Edwards is and you're likely to get a blank stare.
His voice is heard many millions of times a day on AOL. He's most famous for the line, "You've got Mail!" The back story as to how he landed that voice job is kind of interesting.

The article is a bit dated as it mentions an "upcoming movie" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan to be called, "You've Got Mail", but informative nonetheless.

Read about it here.

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My client list

Folks sometimes ask me who I've voiced for. It's an interesting business. Some people only have need for an occasional voice over, say for their website landing page. Other clients have been with me for years. Here's just a partial list:

Comcast Spotlight (New York-New Jersey) , Fox Sports Network, Siemens, The Game Show Network, Microsoft, Enyota Learning, Publix Supermarkets, Conrad- Caine (Germany), Captive Audience, Electrify Media, Braincloud Sound, Kepha Resources, LMX Media, K-LA Tencor, Dyson, Meineke, Brainvisa, Hollywood East, Plexus Medical, U.S Government Housing, Dazzle Technologies, Premiere Retail Networks (Walmart in store advertising).

I was hired to voice four episodes of "Animal ER Houston." The shows are without professional actors and unscripted. So, there's a wonderful sense of spontaneity in the episodes. From a voicing stand point, I did not see the videos that my voice would be matched to before recording, so all my cues came strictly from the copy, and from some brief direction from the producer beforehand. You can watch the episodes here, but be warned, if you're an animal lover like I am, you might be reaching for the Kleenex. The episodes open with a brief spot for the Houston Zoo voiced by a young female, and then me.