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Voice Over Coaching
The Session’s Over, Your Voice Isn’t: A Vocal Cool-Down for Voice Actors
Most voice actors warm up and hardly any cool down. What the research says a vocal cool-down does, and a five minute routine to end every session.
Voice Over Coaching Page 2. Voice over coaching and technique: reads, vocal health, direction and practice routines to sharpen your craft.
Voice acting
How to Act in Audio Drama When the Mic Is Your Whole Stage
Mic positions, moves, spot effects, script mark-up and listening: how voice actors play a scene in audio drama, radio plays and fiction podcasts.
Voice Over Coaching
How to Improve Your Diction Without Sounding Like a Robot
Clearer voice over without the robot: loosen the jaw, tongue and lips, the drawl drill, tongue twisters done right, the cork, and finishing your endings.
Narration Voice Over
How Many Hours a Day Can You Record Voice Over?
What working narrators do, what voice research says about tired voices, how to build breaks into a long recording day, and the signs it's time to stop.
Voice Over Coaching
Milk, Coffee or a Green Apple? Eating Before a Voice Over Session
Does milk make mucus? Is coffee bad for your voice? What the research says about food and drink on recording day, and what to keep by the mic.
Voice Over Coaching
Can You Make Your Voice Deeper? Yes, Within Reason
Pitch, resonance, pace and mic distance all shape how deep you sound. Here's how voice actors get lower and warmer without straining.
Voice acting
Your Recorded Voice Sounds Wrong. Blame Your Skull
Why your recorded voice sounds thinner than the one in your head, what a blind listening study found, and a week of drills to make playback useful.
Voice acting
Why You Sound Like You’re Reading (and What to Do Instead)
Why scripts make us sound like we're reading, and what to try today: tell one person, speed read, rewrite it, stand up, record yourself.
Voice Over Coaching
Twenty Ten or Two Thousand Ten? Reading Numbers and Web Addresses in Voice Over
Years, dates, phone numbers, web addresses and acronyms: how to decide how each one is said before you record, and what to ask the client.
Voice acting
How to Calm Audition Nerves Without Trying to Calm Down
Shaky voice, dry mouth, racing heart? What audition nerves do to your sound, and the simple, research backed tricks that turn them into energy.