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Voice Over Herald exclusive. Laurie Burke was the first voice people heard when they called GrandCentral, the start-up that became Google Voice. She was paid by the hour, with no written contract. Google bought the company in July 2007, and she found out seven months later, from a clue in an email signature. Nobody talked to her about her recordings. Now she tells Voice Over Herald what happened, and what every voice actor should get in writing now.
It started, as plenty of voice careers did in the mid 2000s, with a classified ad. "Around 2005, I answered a Craigslist ad looking for a friendly, conversational voice for a new telephone service called GrandCentral," Burke says.
GrandCentral gave people one phone number that rang all their phones, with voicemail and call screening, and it needed a voice to guide callers through it. Burke had just made her first demo. "I'd recently made my voiceover demo and brought it to our meeting on a CD. Remember those?" she says. "I was hired for $35 an hour and thrilled to have steady work with a group of nice guys building something exciting."
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