Marie-Elaine Roy

Voice Description

FRENCH/ENGLISH female voice over professional based in Montreal, smooth and mature style. Former CBC and Radio Canada interviewer. Excellent diction, meets the highest standard for business DVD’s and podcasts, educational projects and documentaries.

Voice variation I am comfortable with:

Softspoken, convincing, caring, enthousiastic, informative, confident, classy, corporate, authoritative, playful.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Female
• Middle Age Female

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

• French - Canadian

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Podcasts

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• Union des Artistes (Canada)

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer translation services
• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Montreal, Ottawa, Québec, Quebec, Canada

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Possible French accents' interpretations: International (no regional accent), Parisian, Québécois, North American English with various French accents for exuberant commercials.

My Voice Experience

Born in Québec city, native language French, studied both in French and English.

My passion for my work goes back to my pre-teen years when my recurrent hobby was to mimick television announcers with various cleaning products in hand.

You may say that those playful exercises "paid off" and with additional training, experience and constant determination, my voice may now be guiding medical students through new protocoles, greeting customers via telephone systems, help companies in developing new medias such as text-to-speech and of course, praising the vertus of a leading cleaning brand...

Some of the companies I had the pleasure to lend my voice to in various multimedia productions:

Bombardier
Lise Watier Cosmetics
Transcontinental
National Capital Commission
Loto-Québec
Bosch
Pantene
ING Direct
AXA Insurances
Desjardins Financial Group
Genivar
AIR Liquide International
Dairy Queen
Tim Hortons

My Training

Marketing Management graduate (2007) at HEC Montreal, Qc
University of Montreal, (2004-2006) : Applied communications and Professional writing graduate.

Radio communication studies - University of Québec (1986-1987), Montreal, Qc
Radio and television announcer training school - Promedia graduate (1985), Montreal, Qc

My Studio Equipment

Home studio :
Mac Computer
Audacity audio recording and editing software
Audio technica AT2020 microphone
Pop Screen
Sound Devices USBPre interface - sample rates up to 48kHz and up to 24bits depth.

For projects requiring ISDN, I have easy access to an external professional studio.

Additional Skills

Over 10 years experience in customer service, first as an agent then as a trainer, mainly related to telecommunications and tourism.

For many years I have worked as a volunteer involved in simultanious translation from English to French in local and international events for a non profit organization.

Very artistic, I have practiced various form of arts from engraving to belly dance.

Payment Methods Accepted

• PayPal
• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency

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