Voice Acting: Resonance – Why Your Recorded Voice Sounds Different From What You Hear In Your Head, by Ann Utterback
Vibrations in your voice create resonance – and what you hear in your head is different from a recording!
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Vocal Health: Ahhh Choo! Don’t Flu Around With Vocal Health. Common Sense Reminders, by Dave Courvoisier
Oh, oh. Have you got the sniffles? Or something worse? (Well, we won’t talk about what’s going on there.) But even if you haven’t been sick yet this year – a bug is lurking just around the corner. So don’t flu around! Our favorite list-maker, Dave Courvoiser, reminds us how to protect from germs when we crawl out of our VO booths …
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Voice Acting: The ‘Best Friend Read’ – How To Sound Natural When Voicing ‘Announcer’ Copy, by Hugh Klitzke
They say “Sound natural” – then give you copy to read that is anything but natural. It’s announcery. So – what to do? Give it your ‘Best Friend’ read. Voice casting director / coach Hugh Klitzke shows how to prep your mind for this …
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Voice Acting: When A Commercial’s Final Words Repeat The First, It’s Playtime For The Voice Actor, by Hugh Klitzke
At the end of commercial copy you often see a phrase that hearkens back to the content of the first line. Auditions casting director/coach Hugh Klitzke says that gives you a device to play – but how? …
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Vocal Health: Flying High For The Holidays? Protect Your Voice In The Air, by Ann Utterback
If you’re flying this Thanksgiving weekend or any time over the holidays, you might want to think about your voice, says voice specialist Dr. Ann Utterback. Why? It’s drier than a desert up there! And breathing this dry-recirculated air is a threat to your vocal health. Here’s what to do …
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Voice Acting: Do We Shoot The Messenger, Or Is The Voice Over Role ‘Just Politics’? by Paul Strikwerda
Would you voice a script whose powerful words run counter to your beliefs? Did you? Voice over pro Paul Strikwerda examines the dilemma many voice actors faced during the controversial U.S. election …
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Voice Acting: The ‘Throw Away’ … What Do You Imagine? … And The New ‘Normal People’ Read, by Hugh Klitzke
Auditions casting director and voice over coach Hugh Klitzke treats us to three nuggets from the casting chair to remember …
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Voice Acting: The Voice Over Script Has A Melody – How To Make It Sing In Your Read, video by Gary Terzza
There are many ways to approach a voice over script. But have you ever been searched for the melody? “This has nothing to do with adding a music track, but everything to do with creating colour and sparkle to your VO delivery,” explains UK voice talent / VO coach Gary Terzza. In this brief video, he shows how to make the script sing with your voice …
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Voice Acting: Your Homework Assignment For Tonight: How Would YOU Voice That TV Commercial? by Dave Courvoisier
Thought you were going to relax with some TV tonight? Forget about it: you’ve got homework. VO pro Dave Courvoisier challenges you to pick commercials you hear and voice them as if you’d won those gigs …
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Voice Acting: How To Ar-Tic-U-Late Your T’s And D’s – Without Overdoing It, by Ann Utterback
Almost everyone has difficulty articulating the /t/ or /d/ sound when that sound is tucked in between two other consonants (for instance, in the word “expertly”). Speech specialist Ann Utterback offers these practice tips that will have you hitting those sounds – without sounding over-pronounced …