But will Lee Ridley s act be the same if he reprogrammes his speech synthesiser
‘Lost Voice Guy’ Lee Ridley is hoping to acquire a Geordie accent.
The former Britain’s Got Talent winner has become famous for the robotic voice that comes from his communication aid – but now wants to reprogramme it so he can sound like the rest of his family,
Ridley, who is from Consett, County Durham, has put out an appeal for men from the North East to lend their voice to speech technology experts to sample.
‘I promise it isn t as scary as it sounds,’ the comic wrote on his website. ‘In fact, the process is quite simple. You’d just need to spend a total of around eight hours in a recording studio… You’d be paid for your time in the studio, and you’d have my eternal gratitude.’
New commissions for Dave and Gold channels
The Dave and Gold TV channels are to commission a series of half-hour comedy and drama scripts from underrepresented talent across the UK.
Parent company UKTV has launched two initiatives to find new writers, with a commitment to get their work on to screen.
The first is an anthology of four half-hour programmes to be broadcast on Dave and created by ‘anybody who feels that their voice isn’t currently heard clearly on our screens’.
UKTV is putting out an open call for script samples of ten pages of less for projects that will ‘tell the stories the writers wish to tell, ranging from the comedic to the dramatic’.