Digital illustration of a written article transforming into a narrated video, representing Mango AI's new article-to-video generator with AI voiceovers.

Mango AI Introduces Article-to-Video Tool With AI Voiceovers

By Voice Over News Staff. Published on: October 24, 2026.
Mango AI has introduced a new article-to-video generator that allows users to transform written content into narrated videos using artificial intelligence. The tool combines automated video creation, synthetic voiceovers, and customizable AI presenters, offering businesses, educators, and content creators a way to repurpose written material into video presentations without traditional recording or editing processes. Announced […]
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Modern smart home display illustrating Apple's HomeView accessibility features, including VoiceOver, Live Speech, and voice-based controls.

Apple’s New HomeView Brings VoiceOver and Live Speech to Smart Homes

By Voice Over News Staff. Published on: October 19, 2026.
Apple is expanding its accessibility technology into the smart home with HomeView, a new smart display featuring a […]
Filed Under: Technology

Why Audiobook Narration Is Physically Harder Than It Sounds

By Austen Moret. Published on: October 17, 2026.
Listening to an audiobook can make narration sound deceptively simple. A performer sits down with a book, reads […]
Filed Under: Audiobooks
Female pop star holding a smartphone, illustrating Nicki Minaj's improvised voiceover after a recording mishap.

Nicki Minaj Turns Recording Mishap Into an Impromptu Voiceover

By Voice Over News Staff. Published on: October 11, 2026.
Even celebrities occasionally run into technical problems while recording videos, and Nicki Minaj recently found herself dealing with […]
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Anjelica Huston Joins Amy Ephron’s Unseasonably Cold Audiobook

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Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston has added another voice performance to her extensive career, joining the audiobook adaptation of Amy Ephron’s mystery novel Unseasonably Cold. Huston voices Thessaly Edwards in the production, which also features Kerry O’Malley as the principal narrator. Released on October 4, 2026, alongside a new paperback edition, the audiobook brings Ephron’s […]

Royal Mail Faces AI Voiceover Controversy Over Late BBC Narrator Paul Vaughan

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Royal Mail has confirmed that it used an artificial intelligence-generated voiceover in its 2025 Christmas advertising campaign after the daughter of late British broadcaster Paul Vaughan claimed the narration sounded remarkably similar to her father’s voice. The revelation has sparked concerns about the potential reproduction of deceased performers’ voices without permission and the growing use […]

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When Audiobook Narrators Need to Call the Author

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An audiobook narrator can receive a finished manuscript containing every word that will eventually reach the listener and still discover that something important is missing. A character’s unusual surname may have no obvious pronunciation. A fantasy novel may introduce cities and creatures that exist nowhere outside the author’s imagination. A seemingly minor character might later […]

Futurama Voice Cast Still Wants More as Season 14 Reaches Its Finale

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After more than 25 years of cancellations, revivals and apparent endings, the voice cast of Futurama has learned that saying goodbye to the Planet Express crew rarely means goodbye forever. As the animated comedy reaches the end of its latest season, longtime cast members are once again making it clear that they remain interested in […]

Kenjiro Tsuda Takes TikTok to Court Over Alleged AI Voice Clone

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Japanese voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda has taken TikTok to court over videos that he says used an artificial intelligence-generated imitation of his distinctive voice without permission, putting one of Japan’s best-known voice performers at the center of a potentially important test of how existing rights apply to AI voice cloning. The dispute involves at least […]

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How a Dub Keeps the Same Character Consistent for Years

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A character can remain part of a dubbed franchise far longer than the production team that originally created their localized voice. Animated series can run for hundreds of episodes, movies can arrive years apart, and successful characters can move between television, theatrical releases, games and spin-offs. To audiences, the expectation is relatively simple: the character […]

Mark Hamill Takes Over as Darkwing Duck in New Disney+ Series

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Mark Hamill is taking on another major animated character, but this time he is returning to a franchise he already knows from a very different perspective. Disney has officially greenlit a new Darkwing Duck animated series for Disney+, with Hamill voicing Drake Mallard, the superhero better known as Darkwing Duck. Disney announced the series on […]

Frank Welker Has Been the Voice of Fred Jones for Nearly Six Decades

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Frank Welker has voiced hundreds of characters during a career that stretches across more than five decades, but one of his longest-running roles is also the one that helped start it all. When Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiered in September 1969, Welker was the voice of Fred Jones. Fifty-seven years later, he remains closely associated […]

Inside a Dubbing Session: From Beeps to the Finished Performance

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A finished dub can make a conversation sound as though the actors simply performed the scene together in another language. Inside the recording session, the process can look very different. Performers may work alone, record dialogue in short sections and repeat individual lines several times while watching a character whose movements and expressions were completed […]

When Voice Actors Become Dubbing Directors

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Voice actors and dubbing directors occupy different sides of the same recording session. One performer is concentrating on a particular character, while the director has to consider how that performance fits the script, the picture, the rest of the cast and the production as a whole. Yet dubbing has a long history of performers eventually […]

Casting a Dub: How Studios Find a New Voice for an Existing Character

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Casting an original animated production often means finding the performer who will help establish what a new character sounds like. Dubbing begins from almost the opposite position. The character is already visible on screen, another actor has already performed the role, and everything from the character’s age and personality to their physical behavior and emotional […]

Should Authors Narrate Their Own Audiobooks or Hire a Professional?

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Turning a book into an audiobook introduces a creative decision that does not exist on the printed page: who should become the voice of the story? For some authors, the obvious answer is to step behind the microphone themselves. They know every sentence, understand the intentions behind the words and may already have an audience […]
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