Talent Buddy

Talent Buddy is where voice talent see and deliver the voice jobs that stations on Radio Workflow send them. Every station that books a talent shows up in one inbox. The talent reads the script and the producer's directions, accepts or declines the job, and delivers the audio straight to the producer from the same job. Talent Buddy calls a station that books you a client, and so does this page.

How a job runs

1. Your producer assigns you to a spot. The job holds the script, the directions, the length, the due date and what to deliver: a dry voice, a finished spot or a live read.
2. You get an email with a link to the job. To reach the producer, reply to that email. You can also sign in at any time with the email address your clients use for you.
3. Read, record and drop your files on the job. Accept the job so the producer knows it is in hand, or decline it with a reason. Nothing reaches the producer until you press Deliver.
4. The producer listens and approves your take. If they ask for changes, their note and the date they need it by are on the job, and you deliver a new take.

The inbox

One inbox holds the jobs from every client that works with you, with due dates and what changed since you last looked. Pending, completed and declined jobs sit on their own tabs, and every job shows its stage as a coloured label, from Sent and Viewed through Accepted and Delivered to Approved. The help page on the site explains each stage.

The script

• Read-ready. The directions sit above the copy, names from your client's pronunciation list are marked with how to say them, and a timing estimate says whether the script fits the spot length at a typical pace.
• What changed. When a producer changes the script, the document or the directions of a job you have, the job shows what changed, word by word.
• Read mode. The directions and the script fill the screen in large type for the booth, with each name's respelling beside it and a rehearsal stopwatch that compares your read with the spot length.

Delivering audio

Drop your files on the job. The upload starts straight away and survives a slow or dropped connection: it pauses and picks up where it stopped.

• Formats. WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, M4A, AAC, OGG and Opus, up to 100 MB a file. The page tells you before anything uploads if a file is too large or not accepted.
• Named for the producer. Your file is named from the job's Key Number, the advertiser and the length, and you label the take: Main, Alt, Safety, Pickup or Tag.
• Several jobs in one drop. Put each job's Key Number in its file name and drop all the files at once. Each one is matched to its job, and you check the matches before anything is delivered.
• Taking a take back. You can withdraw a delivery while the producer has not approved it or put it on the spot.
• Other files. Session notes, a marked-up script, an invoice, stems or a session zip go to the producer as attachments. They never change what airs.

The checks

Before you deliver, Talent Buddy measures each audio file in your browser: its length against the spot, sample rate, channels, peak level, loudness, and the silence at the start and end. A warning points out something worth a look, such as a take that runs long, a file that may clip, or a stereo file for a dry voice job.

Once your file is processed, the word check listens to your take and compares what it hears with the script. It lists the words to check, marks the lines that look like legal copy, and goes easy on names and numbers. You and the producer see the same report.

Every check is advice. None of them stops a delivery: you can always deliver anyway, and the producer decides.

Around the work

• Earnings shows what your jobs are worth, from the rates your clients share with you: totals in each currency, by month, by client and job by job, with a CSV for your own records. It is a guide to your work, not an invoice.
• Availability tells every client which days you record, and whether you can deliver on the day you get a job. Producers see it when they choose talent.
• AI voice preferences tell producers what you allow with your voice: AI word fixes and AI versions, each Yes, Ask me first or No. Producers see your answer as a badge next to your name. Radio Workflow records your choice but does not block the tools yet.
• Emails. New jobs always arrive by email. You choose the rest: a morning list of what is due, script changes, requests for changes and approvals.

Every page works on a phone, and your browser's Add to Home Screen puts Talent Buddy beside your apps.

For producers

Talent Buddy is the talent's end of production in Radio Workflow. You assign a voice to a spot as before, and the job, the script and your directions reach the talent in Talent Buddy.

What they deliver comes back to you. In Radio Workflow you see the talent's progress on the spot, play or download each delivery, and approve it, use it as the spot's audio or request changes with the date you need them by. Nothing airs on its own: a delivery stays in your Storage until you choose it as the spot's audio.

Producers work in Radio Workflow. The Talent Buddy site is for the talent.

For developers

Talent Buddy has an HTTP API and an MCP server for a talent's own assigned jobs, with keys the talent scopes, and its reference is public on the site. Their release is pending. See Building on our products.

Getting help

The site's home page and help page carry a support chat, and the help page explains every screen. For a question about a job, reply to the job's email: it reaches the producer who sent it.