ISDN is the acronym for Integrated Services Digital Network. Using this network, voice-over talent and recording/production facilities located anywhere around the world can connect with each other so that CD-quality audio can be sent from one location and recorded in the other in real-time. LIVE, even. What makes ISDN different than a basic 'phone-patch?' With ISDN, the voice talent is recorded in the studio or edit suite. Any changes you convey to the talent are made right then, as if he or she were in the booth. A phone-patch is also a convenient way of getting your voice-over project recorded, but you don't have the finished voice track in your production when the voice-over session is done.

The recording is being done by the talent, who may or may not be technically savvy enough to produce a high quality recording. After the recording is finished, they must clean it up by removing bad takes, noises, etc. before uploading it to a server, attaching it to e-mail, or mailing it to you on a CD. ISDN voice-over talent are connected. Ready within hours, sometimes even minutes. ISDN is NOW. ISDN works. Let it work for you. You just get comfortable.