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The Week in Voice: Three Goodbyes, a SONARR Win and Kindle+ Goes AI

Theo Lindgren · October 23, 2026 · 3 min read

Three goodbyes, a new awards night in Sydney, AI audiobooks slipping into Kindle+, and a prime minister who filed four seconds of her own voice. Here's your week in voice.

Hello again. It's Friday, and this was a heavier week than most, so we'll start gently and work our way back to a smile.

Michael Forest, Star Trek's Apollo, died at 97 in Sparks, Nevada. Trekkies knew the face. Anime fans knew the voice, often without knowing whose it was. After Star Trek he spent ten years dubbing films in Rome, then decades in Los Angeles booths, sometimes under the name Alfred Thor.

Satoko and Shinpei face each other among glowing fireflies under a starry night sky, a still from episode 2 of the Firefly Wedding anime. Image: Oreko Tachibana/Shogakukan/Firefly Wedding Production Committee

AnimeOctober 23, 2026

Firefly Wedding’s English Dub Starts Today. Meet the Voices Behind the Bride Who Proposed to Her Assassin

Firefly Wedding, the Meiji-era romance about a dying noblewoman who proposes to the assassin sent to kill her, starts streaming in English on Crunchyroll today. Rowan Gilvie voices Satoko and...

Screenshot of the Gemini Notebook home page at Google's NotebookLM address, headlined Understand anything, with a card reading Turn Assignments into Audio Overviews. Image: Google

OpinionOctober 23, 2026

Opinion: Google Says It Hired an Actor. If That Actor Is You, Read the Contract Twice

The most important voice in the David Greene case hasn't said a word. Google says the male voice in its AI podcast tool came from a professional actor it hired....

Screenshot of Amazon's Kindle+ page reading Kindle Unlimited is now Kindle+, One subscription. Millions of stories. Read, listen, repeat, taken October 23, 2026. Image: Amazon

VO Tech NewsOctober 23, 2026

Amazon Puts AI-Narrated Audiobooks in Kindle+ Automatically. Narrators on Royalty Share Deals Have to Wait

Amazon renamed Kindle Unlimited on Thursday. It's Kindle+ now, and for the first time it includes audiobooks for US subscribers at no extra cost. Books voiced by Amazon's AI narration...

The Mailbox in Birmingham, a red brick building with a red The Mailbox sign on its roof, above canalside restaurants. Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Voice Over ArticlesOctober 22, 2026

The Archers Could Be Recorded Outside Birmingham for the First Time Since 1951. Its Cast Says the Savings Won’t Last Five Years

The BBC has dropped plans for a purpose-built studio for The Archers at its new Birmingham home, and the world's longest-running radio soap could be recorded...

An empty radio studio at dawn: a microphone on a scissor arm, headphones and a plain mug on a worn wooden desk, a lit ON AIR sign and a dim control room behind the glass. © Voice Over Herald

VO Tech NewsOctober 22, 2026

A Judge Signals the Ex-NPR Host’s Voice Case Against Google Can Go On. Google Says the Voice Belongs to an Actor It Hired

A California judge has signalled that David Greene's lawsuit over the male voice in Google's AI podcast tool can go ahead. Greene, the former co-host of...

Screenshot of the Fremantle Press website announcing its call-out for Western Australian voice actors on 19 October 2026, beside a pink poster reading Call for WA Voice Actors with a magpie singing from the top of a building. Image: Fremantle Press

Voice Over ArticlesOctober 21, 2026

Fremantle Press Is Casting WA Narrators for Three Children’s Audiobooks. Two of the Roles Are for First Nations Voices

Fremantle Press, the not-for-profit publisher in Western Australia, is casting narrators for a new audiobook pilot. It wants local voices, new and established, for three children's...

Colin Cassidy Takes the Acting Prize at Australia’s First All-Audio Awards. Here’s Every SONARR Winner

October 20, 2026 Priya Raman Comments Off

Colin Cassidy wins Performance / Acting Excellence at Australia’s first all-audio SONARR Awards. Here’s every winner, from podcasts to voice-over.

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Netflix Says One Dubbed Language Takes 50 to 60 People. AI, It Says, Is Only a Tool

October 17, 2026 Marcus Delgado Comments Off

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Indonesia Makes Voice Over an Official Creative Industry. Its Voice Actors Are Still Waiting on Royalties and AI Rules

October 17, 2026 Nate Holloway Comments Off

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The Week in Voice: Two Goodbyes, Five Welsh Wins and a Cloned Batman

October 16, 2026 Leah Brannigan Comments Off

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Wales Wins Five of 14 VOX Awards, and South Africa Crowns Its Voices

October 16, 2026 Hana Mori Comments Off

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Voice123 Will Start Charging Clients to Post Castings

October 16, 2026 Sarah Robbins Comments Off

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Hiroshi Tsuchida, Japan’s Voice of Lightning McQueen and Attack on Titan’s Grisha, Dies at 54. Eren’s Voice Says the Story Needed Him

October 20, 2026 Leah Brannigan Comments Off

The Japanese voice of Lightning McQueen and Grisha Yeager, and Kakuranger’s Ninja Blue, died of heart failure at 54. Colleagues and studios pay tribute.