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Bedtime Is a Tough Room: Narrating Children’s Audiobooks
Picture books to YA: how children's audiobook narrators pace a story, build characters kids can follow and sound the right age, with advice from the field.
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Press 14 to Begin: How to Narrate a Museum Audio Guide
What narrating a museum audio guide asks of a voice actor: reading for someone looking at art, short stops, wayfinding lines and takes that match.
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How to Voice Corporate Narration People Actually Listen To
What corporate narration covers, how to find the friendly expert read, handle jargon and slide cues, keep a series consistent and win repeat clients.
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How to Voice Audiobook Characters Without Doing a Cartoon
A cast list, four small dials and a reference clip per character: how narrators voice every character, including the opposite sex, without overdoing it.
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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.
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Pickups Nobody Can Hear: Matching Your Sound Weeks Later
How to record audiobook and voice over pickups that match the original: setup notes, mic position, time of day, listening first and checking the join.
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A Fremantle Publisher Wants WA Voices, and a Phone Recording Will Do
Fremantle Press wants Western Australian voice over artists for its first children's audiobooks. What it asked for, the books, and how to send a strong read.
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Slow Down, Then Slower: Voicing a Guided Meditation
How to voice a guided meditation: the voice to use, how slowly to read, how to time silences and breaths, and how to record and edit all that quiet.
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Whose Voice Is Reading to Australia? Mostly Not Ours, Says a New Survey
An ANU survey found Australians mostly hear American narrators on audiobooks. What it means for Australian voice over artists and the people who cast them.
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A Whole Conference for Audiobook Narrators: What Warwick Tells British Voice Artists
Three days in Warwick, run by working narrators. What a UK audiobook narration conference says about the craft, and what to do at home if you missed it.