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Silent Reflux and Your Voice: What Voice Actors Should Watch For
Silent reflux can roughen a voice with no heartburn at all. What voice actors should listen for, what clinics suggest and when to see a doctor.
Voice over tips Page 2. Practical voice over tips you can use today, from the booth to the audition to the invoice.
Voice Over Business
What Goes on a Voice Over Invoice, and When to Send It
Split session and usage fees, send within 48 hours, take a deposit and follow up kindly. A plain guide to invoicing as a voice actor.
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.
British Voice Over
Thirty Seconds on Commercial Radio: What the Audio Ad Award Means for Voiceover Artists
Radiocentre's Audio Ad of the Year entries close on 14 October. What judges score, who reads the spot, and what UK voiceover artists should do.
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 Over Studio
Wired, Sealed and Not Too Loud: Choosing Headphones for Voice Over
Why closed-back headphones keep playback out of your microphone, what to check before you buy a pair, and how to protect your hearing in long sessions.
Voice Over Business
My Flabber Is Still Gasted: A Voice Actor Gets a Website That Finally Looks Like Him
David Atwood went from a homemade site to a branded voice actor website in ten days. How it came together, told in his own words.
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The Slate: Two Seconds That Colour Your Whole Audition
What to say at the start of an audition, when to skip it, how to match the energy of the read and how to keep the front of your file clean.
Voice acting
Water, Steam and the Dry Mouth: What Hydration Really Does for Your Voice
Why water never touches your vocal folds, why it takes hours to help, and how to plan a recording day so your voice feels easy by the afternoon.
Voice Over Studio
Popping Ps and Thumping Bs: Stopping Plosives in Voice Over
What a plosive really is, where the gust of air goes, the pop screen gap that makes it work, why foam doesn't, and what can be fixed after the take.