BeeAudio | Voice Samples

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The successful execution of a clear vision makes for good business. BeeAudio has assembled a group of very experienced professionals who make sure that top quality products are created by a stellar team for delivery on time, every time, at a price the customer can afford.

	James Adams – Founder/CEO James Adams, CEO and founder of BeeAudio, is the narrator of over 40 audiobooks, author of 13 bestselling books on international affairs, and former journalist and managing editor of the London Sunday Times. His passion for books started as a small boy, reading under the bedtime covers with a flashlight, and grew into an international reputation as an author whose books have been translated into twelve languages. His world-renowned reputation as a journalist for finding the heartbeat of a story and communicating it to the masses is evidenced by his interviews with Nightline, CNN, The Today Show, and various documentaries in the U.S., Japan, U.K., Germany, and Italy. His parallel career as a founder, chairman, and CEO of iDefense, with clients in the intelligence community, the government, and Fortune 100 companies, makes him a masterful businessman who not only knows how to entertain the listener, but knows how to do it profitably. James guides BeeAudio with a passion for the written and spoken word and a keen business acumen that can swiftly find the selling point of any book and turn it into an audio masterpiece. James is an enthusiastic rower, fly fisherman, and beekeeper.
	Cynthia Bauman – Executive Producer Cynthia Bauman's career with directing actors in the sound booth started in Los Angeles on a Jerry Bruckheimer television series, culminating with her sound team being nominated for a 1997 Emmy Award for “Best Sound in a Television Series.” Having worked for ten years on major network and film projects, Cynthia combines her skill for producing with her ear for quality and brings them straight to BeeAudio's sound booth. Trained in the sound booth by one of Hollywood's finest voice directors, four-time Emmy nominated Susan Blu, Cynthia's direction enlivens each script with appropriate texture and mood, while remaining on schedule. Finessing the spoken word expediently to meet daily budgets and deadlines was an everyday occurrence in television production, and Cynthia uses the same criteria to be sure that each audio production at BeeAudio surpasses the client's—as well as her own—expectations for excellence.
	Gabriella Morrison – Producer Gabriella Morrison, BeeAudio's scheduling queen, has spent a career wrangling the combination of creative people and technology to “make the trains run on time.” She began her career in the fashion industry organizing photo shoots while living in New York City. She brought together photographers, models, makeup artists, and locations to produce the photos that appeared in all the major magazines around the world—a perfect grounding for BeeAudio, where her job involves bringing together many people and talents to deliver the perfect result on time every time. Gabriella loves that BeeAudio is a paperless company and can often be heard around town giving high praises to our cutting-edge approach to the audiobook narration process. Her life has been about embracing change, and she loves being part of a team that is transforming the way the audiobook business works. Gabriella is married, has two wonderful kids, and is an avid rower. She has traveled extensively, skydived, and done research on a pack of wild wolves in Banff, Canada.
	Eric Turner – Chief Technology Officer Eric Turner is responsible for developing the paperless document and cloud-based media distribution system that is one of the keys to BeeAudio’s successful business model. Eric helped create Web 1.0 as one of the cofounders of Starseed, which created WebRing, the Internet’s first online community and the forerunner of today’s social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. He has since founded MagicWave Networks, a computer and network technologies consulting and iPhone software development firm. With equal passion for acting, narrating, and digital-signal processing, BeeAudio offers Eric everything under one roof. BeeAudio is very technology dependent and so is fortunate to have someone of Eric’s breadth and depth leading the charge. On a daily basis, in between narrating books, Eric manages Bee Audio operations in the cloud and keeps the studio computers and terrestrial network humming. An avid mountain biker and outdoorsman, he has traveled a long way from where his career began as an Exxon-certified high-pressure pipe welder on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.

The narrators get the glory but it’s the editors who work their ProTools magic to produce the rich and intimate sound that cements the relationship with the listener. We have assembled a terrific and talented team of editors who, between them, have more than 50 years of experience with ProTools.

	Before he grew up, Jeff Bowden was a newspaper editor, advertising director, and public affairs officer. For the past 25 years, he has been a producer of spoken-word products, including five editions of the Bible and over 400 other books. He was one of the first users of ProTools and is now considered one of the country's foremost experts on the software program and one of the finest audiobook editors around. He now rides his motorcyle—affectionately known as the beast—whenever he can and reads British mysteries, while editing books to support his congenial lifestyle.
	Ted Holden was born in Ashland, OR, headquarters of BeeAudio. In 2000, he moved to California to work with his uncle at The Thacher School in Ojai in the IT department where he remained for seven years and was able to be their boys' varsity assistant basketball coach for four years, the head tech coordinator for TTTC (Teach The Teachers Collaborative) for two years, produce an equine training television show with his good friend Richard Winters, along with learning about technology and finding his love of recording. Since moving back to Ashland, Ted has been applying all his audio knowledge to editing audiobooks. Along with his family, he once rafted 200 miles along the Grand Canyon and had the time of his life!
	While still an undergraduate, Gary Keeney began editing audiobooks at Blackstone Audio, where he was responsible for the engineering on dozens of books, including two Audie® Award-winning titles. Eight years later, editing remains his passion and he is one of the most experienced users of ProTools software, with which he creates a warm and intimate sound that listeners love to hear. In his other life, Gary plays drums with Kolvane, a blues/American band that performs around 35 shows a year on the West Coast.
	Michael Kitson's ear for audiobooks was first piqued by his parents' nighttime reading of classics such as the Narnia Chronicles and the Little House series. Michael's interest in audio engineering began when, as a teen, he started recording his own music with a cassette 4-track. He transitioned to digital audio recording and live sound while attending Southern Oregon University for music. Michael then worked for Blackstone Audio, engineering and editing dozens of audiobooks before relocating to Portland, Oregon where he is currently an active music performer, live sound technician and audiobook engineer.
	Bryon Lambert has worked in audio/video production for nearly 20 years, beginning as an AV geek, delivering and setting up equipment to classrooms while attending The University of Illinois at Springfield. For two years Bryon worked in TV and video production before turning to a career as a professional in public broadcasting in Illinois and Oregon. Over the arc of his career, Bryon has recorded and edited both live music and spoken word. Upon his arrival to Oregon, Bryon wrote the curriculum for, and taught a semester of, Audio Productions at Southern Oregon University, where he put students through a tedious and, likely unnecessary, exercise in splicing reel-to-reel tape.
	Greg Lawrence proudly hails from that other 'land of the free', Canada, making a home along with his beautiful wife just north of Toronto, Ontario. His passion for recorded sound began with a love of music, inspiring him to become a self-taught drummer and songwriter. The desire to merge passion and career led Greg to the Trebas Institute where he studied Audio Engineering Technology. Work life found Greg engineering and co-producing audio for therapy products, while growing his own company, On Purpose Productions. Recording voiceovers by day and listening to The Hobbit on audiobook by night brought about the happy discovery of a new passion. Greg recently fulfilled a long-time dream by designing and personally constructing a project recording studio from the ground up!
	Jason Steele has been involved with many aspects of audio engineering since 2003, when he graduated from Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, with a degree in audio engineering. After working at the Hit Factory in New York City until its doors closed in 2005, he moved back to southern Oregon and begin working at Blackstone Audiobooks as an audio engineer, producing sessions, mixing and editing books, and coaching narrators. His work has won three Audie® Awards and racked up another 13 nominations. He is proficient in ProTools, Adobe Audition, and Logic Pro. He currently lives in southern Oregon and works as an audio engineer and associate producer for The Jerry Doyle Show at Talk Radio Network. He has been married to his wife Denise since 2008 and is a HUGE "Texas hold 'em" poker player.

However talented the narrator, mistakes are made. The total listening experience of one book can be ruined by a single mispronunciation or mumbled sentence, and so BeeAudio has assembled just the right team of exacting proofers who combine a love of literature and the spoken word with an attention to detail to help produce a perfect product.

	Susan Baird spent much of the past three decades in the company of 13-year-olds teaching literature, writing, poetry, U.S. history, human rights, competitive speech, and theatre. In retirement, she is pursuing new adventures as an Oregon Shakespeare Festival audio describer for visually impaired patrons and proofing audio books instead of student essays. Every March, Susan vicariously mushes a dog team in the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.
	Judith Cope is a former documentation specialist at Hewlett-Packard, where she created award-winning user manuals. Judith Cope has over 25 years' experience as a freelance editor. Her editing contains a perspective informed by a rich experiential and educational background. She holds a B.A. (History) from Wells College in Aurora, NY, a Master's in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Master's in Holistic Psychology from the University for Humanistic Studies in San Diego. An avid rower, she competes in regattas and enjoys imparting her love of the sport to adult and teenage novices.
	Theresa Johnson spent 15 years working in the Corporate Communications department of EMI Christian Music Group after earning a degree in Recording Industry Management from Middle Tennessee State University. Now she focuses her time and talent on audio proofing while raising her two sons, ages 10 and 12, with her husband in Murfreesboro, TN. Theresa loves the outdoors—gardening, hiking, camping—and in earlier years was even seen rappelling off a rock face upside-down!
	Melissa Markell is a mixed media/collage artist. Her work has been sold nationally and internationally over the past 15 years. You can visit her website at www.melissamarkell.com. She has also designed a beautiful and creatively different greeting card line and is searching for a company to license the designs and publish and market them. Her past credits include six years designing and running a wholesale gift line and owning a retail boutique in West Hollywood, CA. She makes a killer apple pie and loves doing crossword puzzles.
	Chase Morgan has been a comedian since the day he was born and has performed standup in clubs and churches alike. He grew up listening to audiobooks rather than reading the printed page and grew to both love the sound of a skilled narrator and become very demanding about the quality. Those discriminating years are now being applied to proofing to ensure that others get to enjoy the rich experience he continues to enjoy as an avid listener.
	Vanessa Nowitzky (a.k.a. VeeBee) has been climbing trees to read books since she was five years old. Now she is an aerial artist who enjoys the variety of information she reviews as a proofer. An avant-garde composer, she has created three musicals and innovated a technique called singdancing. She is a 100% raw foodist and just wrote a recipe book called, "Nuts Over Nuts!"
	Jennifer Stoke's love for language and the performing arts was cultivated at a young age while participating in children's theatre . She built on that experience through high school and college, and is currently at work in her 21st season as a Properties Artisan with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In 2009 she completed her Shakesperean canon, having built props for every one of his 37 plays. In 1974 she was the subject of a book entitled Dooryard Garden. The author described Jennifer as "a heroine as pretty and as competent as Nancy Drew."