| Speak & Spell |
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Page 2 of 4 First of all we needed a word list. Whilst we could easily use the American word list I had found letters on file from a few educationalists complaining that the words were wrong and suggesting better lists. I took the easy way out and agreed, and travelled to Newcastle to meet a Professor (I can't remember his name), get the new list, and crucially make sure that there were no rights issues with the list.
Then I had to select speaker. This was fun, the agency set a session
to hear a number of male* speakers who could do the recording. I chose
John McGuin who did a a lot of voice overs and was a BBC Radio 2 news
reader. We both had to travel to the only digital studio we knew of in Europe at the time - which was it the Villeneuve Loubet facility of Texas Instruments (near Antibes, France), and I got to be the producer. This seemed strange to me, I was surrounded by recording experts; but only John and I knew how to pronounce the words in an English style and so I was producer. That was that ... so I thought. But I was wrong.
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