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What's the most widely used remote voice tracking software?

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Been in radio on-and-off for over 30 years. In 1999, I began working for a station using Scott Studios, and now work part-time for another station using AudioVault. Having been both Production Director and Air Talent (with lots of voice tracking experience), my fluency with those two systems is pretty good.

But I know that Scott Studios and one or two other systems were sold a few years ago to Google, which began developing their own automation, but has since sold their system to... I don't know who.

To supplement my income (full-time voice-over/narrator with ISDN), I'd like to start offering remote voice tracking services. And I'd like to get on-board with the system(s) that are most widely used, but haven't the slightest idea which ones they might be. But I'm pretty sure this is the place to find out.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks!
 
I would probably say NexGen, Scott Studios/Google/WideOrbit, and AudioVault..but the most universal way to transmit voicetracks is to send mp3's and have the station produce, or input them on a local level.

To send voicetracks and have them end up in the system on an automatic "background" basis requires a science fair on both ends of the setup, although, uploading them to an FTP site and configuring a script to automatically download them isn't impossible, it is, again, time consuming to setup properly...and is prone to errors.
 
Thanks, Sgeirk.

I have lots of experience creating and uploading mp3s via ftp, so that wouldn't be a problem. But I agree that things on the station end may be more involved.

I'll see how it goes.

Thanks again.
 
The mp3 route is the best way to go and let the station worry about placing them, unless the station supplies you with WAN-capable voicetracking software. You would spend a heck of a lot of money to buy the software just to have it sitting around in case the client uses a particular system. Plus you would also have to worry about connecting to their network, which could involve worrying about a lot of networking issues. For several of our outside contractors, we have them log in securely to our system, upload the produced news/traffic and import it themselves.
 
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