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How to Record IVR and Phone Prompts Callers Actually Follow
Phone menus, on-hold messages and stitched numbers: how to read, record and deliver IVR prompts that still sound right on a real phone line.
Voice over tips Page 4. Practical voice over tips you can use today, from the booth to the audition to the invoice.
Voice Over Studio
48k, 24-Bit, Mono: The Audio Specs Behind Every Voice Over File
Sample rate, bit depth, WAV or MP3, peaks and LUFS: what a voice over spec sheet means, and the safe settings to send when the client gives none.
Voice Over Coaching
Five Minutes Before the Mic: A Vocal Warm-Up for Voice Actors
A ten-minute vocal warm-up for voice actors: body, breath, straw bubbles, lip trills, sirens and diction, plus what voice clinics say about each step.
Narration Voice Over
How to Research Pronunciation for Voice Over: Never Guess a Name
Where to look when a name stumps you, which sources to trust, how to write a pronouncer you can read at speed, and how to keep a pronunciation log.
Voice acting
Thirty Seconds, Seventy-Five Words: Timing a Voice Over Script
How many words fit in a 30 or 60 second spot, why pace changes from job to job, and what to do when a script runs long. With a worked example.
Voice acting
How to Take Direction in a Live Voice Over Session
Your first live directed session? Who's on the call, how to test the tech, and how to turn a director's note into a better take without losing your nerve.
Voice Over Coaching
Can You Record Voice Over With a Cold? Record, Adjust or Rest
Blocked nose or hoarse voice? How to decide whether to record, what to tell the client, and how to look after your voice and come back sounding like you.
Voice acting
How to Mark Up a Voice Over Script Before You Say a Word
A pass by pass way to mark up a voice over script: thought groups, focus words, turns, breaths and timing, with a worked example you can copy.
Voice acting
Matching the Mouth: What Dubbing Voice Work Really Asks of You
What dubbing voice work asks of you: counting flaps, hitting every lip closure, copying breaths, and why the feeling on screen beats perfect sync.
Voice Over Studio
Clicks, Smacks and Sticky Saliva: Stopping Mouth Noise in Voice Over
Why mouth clicks happen, when to start drinking water, what dries you out, where to sit at the mic, and how to clean up the clicks that still get through.