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With over 70,000 audio files and numerous projects to our credit, find out why we're the leader in Multimedia Audio and Interactive Authoring ... |
For more information, Email realhelp@realhelpcom.com,
or call us toll free at (888) REALHELP.
Narration and Voiceover | Sound Editing | Telephony Audio | Audio Books & Cassettes | Music and Sound FX
In our full digital, state-of-the-art recording studio, our professional sound recording staff specializes in the production of audio for multimedia CD-ROMs, Internet and intranet based training, custom audiocassette programs, and telephone voice response systems. We've got capacity to produce thousands of audio files, usually within three to five days. Delivery Formats include most standard audio and disk formats.
There's a wealth of great voice
talent in the Philadelphia area, and we've used them on
everything from CD-ROMS to Voice Mail to TV Ads to Audio Books.
Here are a few voices we hear regularly:
| Welcome to Real Help! | PC .WAV (11k/8b) | Mac AIFF (11k/8b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
| PTS
Learning Systems On-Demand excerpt: |
PC. WAV (22k/8b) | Mac AIFF (22k/8b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
| The
ULTIMATE MUSIC COLLECTION CD-ROM: |
PC .WAV (11k/8b) | Mac AIFF (11k/8b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
| Real Help for WordPerfect excerpt: | PC .WAV (22k/8b) | Mac AIFF (22k/8b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
Additional Demos are available on our Clients List.
Recognize this?
And now for something completely different ...
(Special thanks to Rick Hall for writing and producing this piece.)
Once you've recorded your several hundred (or several thousand!) voice files, somebody's got to go through all of it, to create individual disk files. And of all the services we provide, this is what we do best. Our staff of professional sound engineers will hand-edit each file, trimming each file to its minimum length while correcting any noticeable problems. We also maximize the audio for each file, and provide a final listen-through to guarantee that you're getting exactly the files you need, with the best quality audio possible.
Billing is typically on a per file basis; if we provide recording as well, we can bundle in recording costs as a per file charge. No project is too small or too large, and our editing work is GUARANTEED to be delivered to your specifications or we'll replace any errant files.
Note also that the editing source material NEED NOT be recorded by us. We've edited over 4,800 voice mail files for Telkom South Africa which were recorded abroad and presented to us in South African English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, and Zulu! Even the most difficult language barriers can't deter us!
An AudioText system is a creative arrangement of promotional messages and feature information placed on an interactive telephone voicemail system. It's sort of like a Home Page on the phone, but has the advantage of providing audio information to customers who don't have Internet access. We can help you design, record, and program your "Phone Page", and can even locate cost effective host hardware for you.
First there was Real Help for WordPerfect, our five hour audiocassette training product. Since then our scriptwriters and audio producers have added several cassette-based communications to our credit. Most recently, we've performed all production on business communications audio books by Brody Communications, including their titles Twenty One Ways to Springboard Your Career, Present with Success, and Up Your E.Q. (Etiquette Quotient). Other audio book clients include Pachter & Associates Executive Presence, and some lighter fare by Listening Library.
| Intro to Up Your EQ: | RealAudio 28.8 |
We've composed and produced a number of music tracks, including some for Sony Worldwide and the ABC Radio Network. Here are a few examples:
| RealAudio 28.8: | Country | Rock | Alternative | Classical | Jazz | Spacey | Children's |
| PC .WAV (11k/8b): | Country | Rock | Alternative | Classical | Jazz | Spacey | Children's |
Need a unique sound, audio logo, or special effect for your project? Using advanced digital recording and synthesizer programming techniques, we'll create it!
Like any good production house, we've got our stash of library CD's, which we can mix into your project audio. Most of it's even royalty free ... check out the Canary Productions home page for more info.
Got a specific or unusual problem related to software development and/or audio? We can provide short and long term consulting at competitive rates.
Web Design | CGI, Java, and Web Database Consulting | Internet Audio
We're proud to be webmastering several excellent websites for our clients. Our sites run the gamut from pure professional communication to marketing communications to database front-ends to art for art's sake.
For examples of professional and corporate websites, see the sites we've done for the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development and for Know It All, Inc.
For examples of more artistic and/or ad-oriented sites, check out our site for Tom Cat Interactive (that's us on the weekends) and a more artistic site we've done for the popular Philadelphia alternative band X's + O's.
Need some special software and/or database support behind your website? We're knowledgeable in many of the most popular relational database and web programming techniques for both Unix and NT servers.
We now support Shockwave and RealAudio streaming audio formats. Check our Audio and A/V page for more information on multimedia and internet audio.
Multimedia Authoring | Instructional Design | Multimedia Audio | Consulting
There are lots of Director, AuthorWare, and Toolbook II developers out there, and we're proud to be good ones. In particular, we excel at programming projects which contain a high degree of audio content, particulary training CD-ROMs. Here, our scripting and recording talents can be used to provide detailed audio explanations, which can then be easily integrated into the multimedia presentation.
For examples of audio-based and interactive training, check out Real Help for WordPerfect and PTS Learning Systems.
We've also done some interesting high-audio CD-ROMs. Check out the Canary Productions home page for information about The Ultimate Music Collection CD-ROM, a library of "Clip Music" for multimedia developers as well as consumers who'd like some professional music coming out of their PC speakers (for PowerPoint demos, etc.)
"Some
people have a way with words, others ... Not Have Way."
--- Steve Martin
First there was Real Help for WordPerfect, our five hour audiocassette training product. Since then our scriptwriters have delivered on a variety of tasks, including interactive software training, custom IVR and AudioText systems, and other special projects. If you're stuck for the narration text needed by your application, we can lend a hand at competitive per-page rates.
Got a specific or unusual problem related to software development and/or audio? We can provide short and long term consulting at competitive rates.
Audio and Disk Formats
Multimedia Audio File Formats | Telephony Audio Files | Disk Formats
All audio can be provided in 8 or 16 bit, mono or stereo, at 44,100 / 22,050 / 11,025 / 8,096 / 8,000 Hz. All files are hand-edited by professional audio engineers to assure top sound quality.
These are typically provided in 4 or 16 bit formats at 6kHz or 8kHz. Other formats and sampling rates available.
Delivery is typically on one or more of the following:
And of course, there's also good old-fashioned DAT tape, 1/4" half-track reel, and cassette!
Other sampling rates and audio and disk formats are also available. We have yet to encounter a customer whose format requirements we couldn't satisfy. If you have any format questions, please ask!
PTS Learning Systems | Unisys | ABC Radio & Sony Radio | BRG Music | Others ...
Here's a list of some of our clients, and their projects ...
PTS Learning Systems is the interactive couseware partner for Lotus. Their On Demand multimedia software training products support Microsoft, Lotus, Novell, Netscape, and other popular Windows software. Real Help Communications, Inc. has recorded and edited all audio for these products. Here's a quick excerpt:
| PTS Learning Systems On-Demand excerpt: | PC .WAV (22k/8b) | Mac AIFF (22k/8b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
(c)1996 Professional Training Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Unisys Corporation is a major developer of large scale voicemail systems. Their clients include Pacific Bell, Telkom South Africa, and many other international telephone companies. We have produced voice prompts for them using area talent, and have provided editing for them on international projects. Here's an example of some of the more extreme examples:
| Afrikaans Voice Message: | PC .WAV (8k/16b) | Mac AIFF (8k/16b) | RealAudio 14.4 |
| Zulu Voice Message: | PC .WAV (8k/16b) | Mac AIFF (8k/16b) | RealAudio 14.4 |
(c)1996 Telkom South Africa. All Rights Reserved.
We're proud to have composed and produced music for both of these great radio networks. Check out these excerpts:
| RealAudio 28.8: | Country | Rock | Alternative | Classical | Jazz | Spacey | Children's |
| PC .WAV (11k/8b): | Country | Rock | Alternative | Classical | Jazz | Spacey | Children's |
BRG Music Works is one of the largest jingle houses in the US. Their subsidiary, Canary Productions, produces several music libraries for broadcast and A/V markets. The Ultimate Music Collection CD-ROM is their offering of this music in multimedia audio form, and we're proud to have provided all of the software development and audio editing for this great package.
| The
ULTIMATE MUSIC COLLECTION CD-ROM: |
PC .WAV (11k/8b) | Mac AIFF (11k/8b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
One of our audio book clients, Listening Library provides an interesting selection of spoken word literature on audio cassette. Here's a scary monster story ...
| Monsters excerpt: | PC .WAV (11k/16b) | Mac AIFF (11k/16b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
(c)1996 Listening Library. "Merlin's Knight School", by Michael Markiewicz; Excerpted from Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters. All Rights Reserved.
The audio book that started it all. Five hours of beginner level training on audio cassette, including seven lessons and seven hands-on exercises, and featuring background music by the CTI Records jazz collection. Written, recorded, produced, packaged, and distributed by Real Help Communications, Inc. The hippest way to learn WordPerfect!
| Real Help for WordPerfect excerpt: | PC .WAV (22k/8b) | Mac AIFF (22k/8b) | RealAudio 28.8 |
(c) Real Help Communications, Inc.
Real Help
Communications, Inc.
Gulph
Creek Business Center, Suite A-300
West Conshohocken, PA 19428
Toll free: (888) REALHELP, fax: (610) 834-1762
Email: realhelp@realhelpcom.com