SimSpeed.Racing is a serialized drama, told in episodes, in the shape of a soap opera. It follows the people around SimSpeed — a fictional company that builds full-motion racing simulators and runs competition arenas — their careers, their rivalries and their relationships.
New episodes go up on a regular schedule. The story runs in order, and it keeps going: once it passes the end of the material it started from, it continues, and it folds in real technology and real events as they actually happen. That means the cast keeps talking, which is why we need voices we can keep using.
It is fiction. SimSpeed is not a real company, and the characters are not real people.
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Your recording is used to build a synthetic voice model. Not a one-off clip. We train a model on your voice, and from then on that model can speak new lines you never recorded — a character's dialogue, episode after episode.
Say your voice becomes Jimbo. Every line Jimbo speaks, in every episode, sounds like you, including scenes written years from now. That is the whole point, and you should be comfortable with it before you record anything.
We will not use your voice outside this series and its promotion. We will not sell or license the model to anyone else. If you ask to be withdrawn we will stop using it in new episodes, though episodes already published stay up.
There is no payment. Nobody is being paid for this, and we would rather say so plainly than dress it up.
What we offer is credit. If your voice is cast and you want to be named, you appear in the episode credits against the character, like this:
If you would rather not be named, say so below and you will not be. Either way you are told before your voice appears in anything.
Two recordings. Both matter, and the second one matters more than people expect.
Pick a character below and read their passage. Roughly 30 seconds. Read it a couple of times first so you are not sight-reading. You are not doing an impression of anyone — use your own voice.
Then answer these three, in your own words:
About 30 seconds, all three together. Talk the way you talk. Do not perform it and do not read it off the screen.
This is the one thing that will get an audition turned down, and it catches almost everybody. AirPods, Shokz, any Bluetooth earbud or headset — the moment their microphone switches on, Bluetooth drops to its phone-call mode. That records a narrow, squashed version of your voice with the top end thrown away, and it cannot be repaired afterwards. It sounds fine to you on a call. It sounds muffled and lispy once we build a voice from it.
Use the microphone built into your phone, laptop or tablet, with the earbuds out and disconnected. A plain wired headset is acceptable. A USB microphone is ideal if you happen to own one. The built-in mic on a modern phone is genuinely good — better, for this, than headphones costing ten times more.
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