Bob Ayres - Warm, friendly, deep, real, and conversational.

Warm, friendly, deep, real, and conversational.

• Bob Ayres is registered with Voice123 since Feb 08, 2005.
• Bob Ayres started his/her voice over career in .
• Currently Bob Ayres is a Standard subscriber.
• Auditions and proposals submitted through Voice123 during the past six months: 0

Voice Description

French, Italian, German, Southern, Cockney, Leprechaun, British, Cowboy, Hindi, Santa Claus.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Child
• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

Recording Categories I Offer

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Podcasts
• Songs

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

Unknown - Click here to ask Bob Ayres

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

Unknown - Click here to ask Bob Ayres

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

, United States

Accents & Dialects

Unknown - Click here to ask Bob Ayres

My Voice Experience

I have several years experience as an actor, singer and versatile voice over talent in the San Francisco Bay Area. My commercial voiceover work incudes a stint as the national radio spokesperson for Albertsons supermarkets. I am currently the radio spokesperson for their East Coast Acme supermarket chain. Over the years, I have voiced hundreds of regional cable ads for Comcast Media Services and other regional producers in the SF Bay Area.
I have voiced narrations for a wide array of companies including FujiFilm, the New York Public School System, The Gap, Kodak Corporation, Olympic Optical, Pegasus Aviation and most recently for Silicon Valley's Cisco Systems. Over a two year period I also voiced over 120,000 lines of narration as the principal voice of LeapFrog Toy's IQuest handheld device for middle schoolers.
I was originally cast at LeapFrog as the voice of Leap's Grandpa and performed along with Whoopi Goldberg in their original LeapPad books. I went on to voice scores of other original character voices for LeapFrog as well as narrations for other LeapFrog projects including LeapFrog collaborations with such well known children's book creators as Richard Scarry, Dr. Seuss and the Arthur, and Bob the Builder animations. My last narration for LeapFrog was the narrator role for a Walt Disney/LeapFrog collaboration titled Disney Princesses for nursery and elementary school age children.

My Training

I began my voice acting career by studying voice acting, at different times in San Francisco, with Susan McCollom, Taylor Korobow and Elaine Clark.
I began acting as a Drama major at Stanford University and performed in the acting company at PCPA for a season in the 70's.
I studied classical singing for several years with the late Letha Loyd Wayne and currently attend master acting classes with Linda Lowry in San Francisco.

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask Bob Ayres

Additional Skills

Last holiday season, I created a web based business marketing a personalized video message for children from Santa Claus on DVD.
In addition to a classical singing repertoire, I also sing in many other styles and voices that may be appropriate for your jingle or jingles or multimedia projects.
Key components of my recording system are a Neumann TLM103 microphone, an Avalon Vt 737sp preamp and ProTools interface and editing software.