Barb Lyon
Voice Artist

Some days I look at the calendar and feel like time is slipping past me at full tilt. It’s 2025. Depending on how you count it, I have maybe ten solid working years left in my voiceover career, give or take. And there are still so many milestones I haven’t hit yet. Not because I’ve been sitting still. But because creative work unfolds in its own rhythm. Clients come and go. Budgets shift. Algorithms do whatever algorithms do.

I was approached by a company last week to record 50,000 words for their text-to-speech (TTS) engine. The stated use? eLearning for kids and young adults. The money wasn’t terrible, especially since I’ve had a down year in the eLearning voice over genre, but a few things immediately made me pause. First, the company name wasn’t visible or offered. Now, I had recorded a TTS engine years ago for my previous employer, before I went full time into VO. The project never fully lau

Linda and I were thrust together because of a casting my former employer did, and just clicked. She is an inspiration and she's a big part of the reason for my voice over career. She's always been sort of a North Star for me. WWLD right? Some of the stories I got her to tell you I've heard before, some are new to me, but Linda's storytelling always bring a smile to my face.