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Episode 401: Health Gains for the Compact Walkable City

Are your audition MP3s rich and robust? Tom Knight shares that taking a little extra time tweaking your audio before submitting your audition can make a big difference. With so many things out of your control, why not make the audio as good as it can possibly sound? Tom shares 3 quick tips that you can apply during post-production to create a better sound, thereby a better audition.


3 Quick Post-Production Tips To Get Better Sound

Voice over instructor and performer Marc Cashman identifies "12 Voice Over Skill Sets" that will help you to refine your current skills and develop new ones. From clarity to consistency to cold reading and more, you'll find new ways that you can leverage your talent and make it shine brightly for all to hear. Listen to learn more about what successful voice over artists master and the skills that matter.

For more info see: https://podcasts.voices.com/voiceoverexperts/2010/04/voice_over_experts_episode_116.html

12 Skills You Should Hone as a Voice Over Talent

VO Experts 166
Are your audition MP3s rich and robust? Tom Knight shares that taking a little extra time tweaking your audio before submitting your audition can make a big difference. With so many things out of your control, why not make the audio as good as it can possibly sound? Tom shares 3 quick tips that you can apply during post-production to create a better sound, thereby a better audition.
Read more at:https://podcasts.voices.com/voiceoverexperts/2014/08/voice_over_experts_episode_166.html

Does voice-over for eLearning and narration need to be boring? Voice-over coach and talent, Julie Williams, shares how you can make reads for applications such as medical narration conversational by doing two things: coloring your words and paying special attention to phrasing. Read more at https://podcasts.voices.com/voiceoverexperts/2015/01/voice_over_experts_episode_176.html

Being Conversational in Narration and eLearning

What do people expect of a voice actor? Joe Loesch believes that voice actors need to interpret the script and convey its meaning while matching it to the voice of the character they're playing. Can you personally relate to the script or product? If not that's okay. You can act!

It's What You Say and How You Say It

While not all scripts are perfectly punctuated, those that are act as a roadmap for voice actors and allow for moderation of pace, rhythm and breathing in a manner that permits the smoothest and most natural delivery possible. Voice over coach J. Michael Collins believes that understanding and reading punctuation is essential to a quality performance. Read more at https://podcasts.voices.com/voiceoverexperts/2013/11/voice_over_experts_episode_148.html

How to Interpret Punctuation in a Voice-Over Script

Clips from Episode 209 of the Talking Headways Podcast

Episode 401: Health Gains for the Compact Walkable City

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