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Hi! Upload your recordings, and get feedback from your peers!
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And a second one! 🙂 This is a corporate onboarding narration for my upcoming demo as well. I think this is not my best work but it’s getting late lol! I am going for conversational, friendly, encouraging. Hope to be hitting this mark. Thank you! Also – there are quite a few plosives at the start of this – any tips for dealing with plosives?
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Great read overall Katelyn! Good catch by Chas on the to/ta pronunciation. I struggle with that a lot too, not just for words like “to”, but also the word “for” (saying “fer” instead). One thing I’ve found that helps is to write those words on your script as “2” and “4” rather than “to” and “for”. Toque.
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Katelynn
You nailed your three goals of conversational, friendly and encouraging! You made the topic engaging with your tempo and pitch, it went smoothly from end-to-end because of your choices of timing for the commas and I think you chose the correct words to emphasize. One little nit pick – I heard “to” pronounced as “ta” in both places where it occurs. Overall, a very nice job!
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Good day everyone. Here is a piece for my narration demo I’m working on with my coach. This is a corporate explainer narration piece. I’m going for friendly, but this is still really important. I hope it sounds conversational. Let me know if it hits the mark. Thank youssss
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Hi all, Looking for any feedback on performance and sound quality. Thanks! Alexis
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Alexis
That was a great read! Excellent tempo, very nice variation in pitch and volume throughout, definitely was natural and conversational and your choice of which words to emphasize was spot on. I may have heard a small breath after the 4th and the 5th sentences but it could be my equipment. Well done!
Chas
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Here’s a “before and after” of the same travel script, with the after intended to incorporate forum feedback I found very helpful. Primary objective was to bring more emotion to the phrases that paint the word pictures of the tropical setting, between 14 seconds and 21 seconds. Thanks in advance for all input.
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Nice job! I think you accomplished your goal of adding some emotion and bringing the scene of the tropical vacation to life. One small note is that in both reads, I was hearing “lush, green palms” as sounding a bit fast, almost like it was one word. I think you could slow down when describing those. But otherwise everything sounded great!
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Hi Everyone, I hope you’re all safe and well. I’m working on some demos with David Goldberg. This is my commercial demo which is going up on my website at http://www.jonmccomb.com
Let me know what you think! Cheers!!
Jon
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Hello all! Here is a recording for any and all feedback. Working on sounding conversational and authentic. Thanks for listening!
Mary
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I do think you accomplished your goal. You sound like you’re talking with someone about something you’ve encountered and really enjoyed. I also get the idea you really know what you’re talking about. Only problem is, you pause in the middle of a sentence three times. Unless there’s a comma or a period in the script, you should generally avoid that. Good job overall though.
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Hello everyone! Had posted this earlier, received some very constructive feedback (Thanks, BrianWiggins!), and thought I’d post again back-to-back to gauge any improvement.
Trying for a fast–yet still clear–delivery. All comments are welcome and appreciated. Thanks for listening!
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The second take was much better. I love how well your voice matches the script and you speak so clearly at such a quick tempo. However, I think you’re not hitting the best words and the tone you’re using during the enunciations should be redone. Also, in the beginning, you sound like your telling the the listener to slice and dice with the product. I don’t think that’s the intent. Still, you’re doing great. Well done!
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Hi Rogue1, sounds great! The second script sounds fast but clear, and with more tone variation than the first read, which is good for this script. I too heard “ta turtle up” as opposed to “to turtle up”, which is something that trips me up quite often as well. Very good!
Mary
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A definite improvement! Slow down to speed up worked well for you. I think it enhanced the energy of the read and that made it more attention grabbing. There was only one enunciation issue; you meant to say “..ready TO turtle up” but it sounded like “..ready ta turtle up.” Good job.
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Hi Bil-Bo – excellent work! both in the delivery and production for all 3 scripts. I don’t have my studio set up yet, but the third script sounded a little less “crystal clear” than the other 2 scripts did. All of them have great pacing and enunciation and sound very authentic for your voice. Very good!
Mary
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Hey friends! Would love feedback for new practice audition. Thank you!
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Hi Monibr16, very good! Nice warm tone and I could tell you had a smile in your voice. I like the calmness in your voice and the unhurried pace. Since “recycle” is repeated 5 times, you might try it with a little more variation in tone for each of those 5 times; each phrase essentially acts like one item in a list. Very nice, and I now would like a Nespresso!!
Mary
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Hey guys. Here is a read for my narration demo. This is one of those celebrity bios that you’d watch on access Hollywood or on a celebrity youtube channel. I’m imagining talking to my little niece who hasn’t heard of Taylor Swift before. I hope it comes across as engaged, and like I’m enjoying telling someone who hasn’t heard about TS. Let me know if this is hitting the mark or missing it. Thanks! After listening back I think they are both pretty much the same… lol
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Katelynn, I think your choices in the slight variance of pitch and volume in #2 resulted in the much better of the two reads. I think you nailed which key words and phrases needed to be emphasized and that allowed your personality to shine through, making the entire read sound more natural, conversational and a topic you were truly interested in. Good work !
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