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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.
Voice Over Coaching Voice over coaching and technique: reads, vocal health, direction and practice routines to sharpen your craft.
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Can They Hear You Smile? What a Smile Does to Your Voice
Listeners really can hear a smile, and their own faces answer it. What a smile does to your sound, how to make it real and how much each job wants.
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Accents for Voice Actors: Learn One From the Vowels Up
Real speakers, word families, the tune and the mouth shape: a four week home plan for an accent that holds up through a whole voice over session.
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That Creak at the End of Your Lines Is Vocal Fry
What vocal fry is, how listeners judge it, whether it harms your voice, and how to lift the ends of your lines or keep the creak on purpose.
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Cold Reading a Voice Over Script: Your Eyes Are Already Ahead
Handed a script you've never seen? How cold reading works, drills that keep your eyes a phrase ahead, and how to recover from a stumble.
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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.
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How to Get Into Animation Voice Acting: Act First, Voices Second
What animation directors listen for, how sessions really run, what goes on a first animation demo, and a sensible path from stage time to auditions.
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.
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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.
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How to Do Character Voices: Build the Person, Then Find the Sound
Build a character voice from the person outward, the six dials you can turn, how to keep it steady all session, and how to protect your voice while you play.