Instructions for Vendor
The casting script is in 2 parts but should be delivered as one file.
1. Sample dialogs
a. there are 2 sample dialogs
b. the VT should read the parts called VT
c. the User part gives the context for the sentences.
2. Short sentences
a. there is one line per box
b. the VT should read each line individually
Please no idents on the files.
Please no additional audio on the files.
Sample dialog 1: ‘Get My Messages’
User: Get my messages.
VT: You have one new message.
Here’s the first one.
Message from: Amber Gomez. Sent today, at 4:46 PM.
Do you want to hear it or skip it?
User: Read it.
VT: Okay, here it is: “Hi. I’m here. You’re not. Bye.”
Reply, hear it again, or go on to the next one?
User: Reply.
VT: What’s the message?.
User: “You’re on the Starbucks on Podunk Ave., I hope.”
VT: Got it. Here’s what I heard: “You’re on the Starbucks on Podunk, Ave., I hope.” Is that right?
User: Yes.
VT: Great. Ready to send it?
User: No, that’ll be all.
VT: OK. Thanks.
Sample dialog 2: ‘Schedule a meeting’
User: Schedule a meeting: happy hour on Friday at 5PM.
VT: Okay. Do you want to save this?
User: Umm…
VT: Sorry, do you want to save this event?
User: Oh wait…
VT: I still didn’t get that. Did you want to save this event? Just say ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
User: I’m not sure if I want to save it.
VT: Since I’m having trouble understanding, go ahead and tap one of the options on the screen.
Short Sentences
1 Head southwest on Washington Street toward Little West twelfth Street.
2 Turn right onto Gansevoort Street.
3 Take the first right onto I seventy eight west.
4 Entering New Jersey.
5 Take the I ninetyfive south exit toward Turnpike south.
6 You have arrived at your destination.
7 According to Wikipedia, Joseph Ernest was a French expert of Middle East
ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher, and writer, devoted to his
native province of Brittany.
8 Tomorrow in San Diego, the high’ll be 88 and the low’ll be 66.
9 There are at least 5 listings within 15 miles. The first one is Mary’s on Noel
Drive in Menlo Park. It is 2 miles away and is rated 4.3. You can say directions,
call, details, or next.
10 Serendipity, the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy
or beneficial way.
11 Rakic’s team analysed postmortem tissue from a brain region called the
prefrontal cortex, P F C, in thirtytwo people aged between one week old and
ninetyone years.
12 Specifically, they calculated the density of dendritic spines, the tiny projections
that protrude from the neuron’s long dendrites, each of which facilitates
communication with other neurons through a synapse
13 US Airways 6724 from Los Angeles to New Orleans is delayed, departing at
4:30pm.
