2 Feature Suggestions: 1. Send multiple styles of small segment of a longer script / 2. Working hours
A couple of suggestions from doing work recently:
Suggestions 1: Send multiple styles of small segment of a longer script
For the longer voiceover jobs I have done, I have occasionally had clients ask for it to be re-voiced in a “slightly more upbeat way” or similar feedback and they would also ask for a couple of takes. I try not to re-charge a client if I re-voice a script because they are unhappy with my original style, however it is still time consuming having to re-voice the whole script (especially if it is a longer one). And if the client then asks for another take because they would still like it slightly different, it is difficult not to charge a small fee for the amount of time it takes. So my suggestion is can we have an option for the voiceover to send the client different style takes of one or two sentences of the script and then the client have the option to pick which style he/she prefers? I guess similar to the Audition that your website offers however this would be for clients who have already booked a specific voiceover (i.e me).
From the point of view of a voiceover, voicing the first few sentences of a script in 3 different styles, then uploading them for the client to choose their favourite would save a lot of time and effort for the voiceover and hopefully for the client too.
Suggestions 2: Working Hours
I believe setting work hours has been mentioned a few times before however I wanted to ask if there is any development on this? The reason being is that I completed a voiceover just last night, however waking up this morning, I saw that I received a revision request at 1am (the time where I am) and so this will now effect my stats of completing a revision which I feel is very unfair. Even if it is just sleeping hours that don't count towards stats I think this would be more fair and reasonable.
Thanks for your time,
Patrick
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Hi Patrick!
Thank you for your suggestions. I think those are really good ones and your feedback is greatly appreciated. I will address each one separately so you can give us your feedback, as well.
Suggestion 1
This option is a very good one! It's challenging to do this as it does require some research as to which word counts should come with these personalized samples. We are also aware that there are some users that don't like to deliver these short samples with different tones before recording it all so that's another reason why we haven't made it "mandatory" to say the least to do this.
However, whenever you face one of these projects where the length is just too much and you'd like to send samples prior to recording the whole thing, send us an email! Our production management team will be able to contact the client and ask them if they'd be OK with listening to personalized samples prior to getting the whole thing over. The PM team is super effective and fast handling these cases so I'm sure they'll be able to help you a lot. Our support email is support@bunnyinc.com :)
Suggestion 2
In regards to this suggestion, we have been talking this feature over for a long time now. We have worked on improving our platform on this front but it's been quite challenging to get to an agreement. Right now, we are working on other priorities in order to be able to make our system more stable and reliable and, as such, we don't have it in line for the near future. However, we do have it in our minds and our pipeline of projects to prioritize.
Again, thank you for your feedback! I'm always happy to read what you think and how we can improve the system so don't ever hesitate on giving us your comments. Know that you are heard and taken into account always :)