Voice: Acting

The e-Learning business keeps humming along, and savvy clients are looking for ways to trim budgets and get the most value possible from VO talents. As a key player in this market, Rick Gordon – owner of the e-Learningvoices.com online casting business – sees three ways you can become the go-to talent for more and repeat work from your clients …

Are you in danger of fading away? Without proper breath control, that’s quite likely! And it’s frustrating to listeners who have to strain to make out the last few words in a sentence that you’re voicing. Speech specialist Dr. Ann Utterback calls this the “slow fade” and offers these tips – including a video – to make the last word of any sentence as strong as the first …

Those fast-talking “legal” voice overs at the end of certain commercials are required by law. So are the “Fair/Balance” reads in pharmaceutical spots. Yet their applications are vastly different, explains casting director Hugh Klitzke …

Do you pay strict attention to the voice over job specs, and only audition if you totally meet those specs? If not, you’re wasting everyone’s time, says VO pro/coach Tom Dheere. And it shows producers that if you can’t pay attention to specs, you won’t be able to take direction …

If the voice over specs call for a thick Southern U.S. drawl, you wouldn’t refer a colleague who’s got a noticeable Bronx accent. Right? Same with Spanish voice overs. It’s more than a Latino last name. Spanish VO expert Simone Fojgiel tells why and what to research before referring …

Got a large eLearning project and worried about time? A fireman comes to your rescue. And in this case, your rescuer is also a seasoned voice over pro and coach – Marc Scott. Recently, Marc was voicing a 3,200-word eLearning project for a firefighting program and he thought of creating the brief video below to share three time-saving tips for long-form voice over narration …

How best to voice placeholders and tags when you encounter them in auditions? Auditions casting director/coach Hugh Klitzke likes to hear these choices …

Are Siri’s cousins after your voice over jobs? No doubt. But the complexity of the human voice, involving the orchestrations and contractions and releases of more than 100 different muscles – from the diaphragm, face, throat, vocal folds, tongue and lips – are yet to be fully duplicated, reports VO pro Bobbin Beam …

Creative copywriters can be geniuses, says VO pro Dan Hurst. But when they write for print, rather than voice over, it can be hard to interpret and produce the best delivery. So Dan offers these five tips for detecting directions in the copy …

You KNOW you’re not supposed to sound like an announcer when reading commercial copy – even when the copy is written like “announcer copy.” What to do? Casting director Hugh Klitzke turns to one of your best friends …