Joseph has lent his voice for a number of promotional advertisement and corporate films including Mercedez Benz, Picadilly Computers, Brooke Bond, Larsen & Toubro, Finolex, Mahindra and Mahindra... once he even recorded 12 corporate films in a day for the B.G. Shirke Group. Joseph has also done voice-overs for several documentary films, including Samvedana, which was declared the third best documentary at the Berlin Festival.

However, bagging the dubbing contract for Ram Gopal Varma's film, Satya, was his first experience with the film world. Satya is going to be screened at an international film festival and thus has to be dubbed in English. Joseph is lending his voice for one of the characters. And how does he feel about it? ``It is my first foray into the feature film industry and I am happy that my first film has a cast of actors rather than stars,'' he says.

And what makes a good voice? Thomas, who conducts voice-training workshops, replies promptly, ``To begin with, a good voice must have the three `t's - texture, timbre and tone. One must then be able to modulate and control it, besides having an in-depth understanding of the subtle nuances of the language.'' And anybody aspiring to be a voice must possess The Phonetic Dictionary by David Jones!

Thomas also believes that there is nothing like a good voice or a bad voice, as today an entire spectrum of voices is needed. And he definitely seems to have established himself as the voice in Pune, the city he will never leave as he loves it so much. But, of course, after Satya, there is bound to be more shuttling between Pune and the tinsel town of Mumbai.