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Morning everyone. Here is an audition for a promotional online video. I forget exactly what the requirements were (this was almost a week ago) but I remember being friendly was part of it… and I think to speak faster than normal because it had to fit within certain time frames. Anyways! Thanks for your feedback you guys!
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Hey, Katelyn.
I especially liked your relaxed, friendly tone of your performance, which you settled into following the first phrase. The list (explore, deepen, get lost) was so good. The phrase “following the link in the description below” could have been just a bit more articulated, since it is the call to action. Overall, really engaging and warm. Great job. -
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Very Nice Katelyn! And great luck I really hope that you get it! Your read sounds excellent I may have only expected the tempo to be a bit faster, but only because you mentioned it. Otherwise you sound nice and clear. I would want to follow the link that you talk about just based on the friendliness of your voice and the perfect amount of energy. Sounded very natural.
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Hi all, Looking for any feedback on this corporate narration script. Thanks!
Welcome to advance technology incorporated and to the excitement and challenges of a growing business. As a new employee, your job is important to us. Your success is an important factor in the success of this company. This software is designed to offer you accurate information about company policies and procedures, benefit packages, performance reviews, training and education opportunities.
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Hi Alexis, very nice read. Your voice is very relaxed and inviting. I’m a beginner, so take my feedback for what it’s worth: I do feel like at times it is more “announcer-like” rather than conversational. You might want to try imagining you are talking to one person rather than a large group. Overall, I think your voice works really well for this genre.
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Well hello Alexis my name is also Alexis I go by Lexi though. Your voice is very welcoming and confident in this read. Your sound quality is also great! When you say “as a new employee” the word employee tails off and almost sounds like employ. But this sounds awesome I’m sure you could punch and roll to fix that.
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Hi there Alexis, very nice read. Your read was smooth and didn’t have unnecessary pauses throughout. Your tone was warm and comforting, I agree with Marc, very professional sounding. I think with your long list, the words “performance reviews” was a bit lost. Great work!
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Alexis, your voice is very well suited to this script. The welcoming and professional tone comes through very well. The voice is clear and calm, and the recording quality is excellent to my ears. One quibble is that the “and” at the end should be de-emphasized a bit in favor of giving the more important words around it more of a boost. Overall great job!
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Hi all, please let me know what you think of this recording of “9 Planets”. Thanks for your feedback!
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Hi Kevin! Nice read! If you just want an opinion on the read it was great you did well at maintaining your pitch. I agree with Alexis you souned far away from your mic which is something easily corrected. I just found out yesterday that i was talking into the wrong part of my mic and instructed on how to correct it. So I know that the position of your mic is detrimental to the overall audio. But definately an easy fix. Great Job.
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Hi Kevin, I like your read of the script. I thought you started out with a good energy level and kept that going, and the pace was good. In terms of sound quality, you sounded far away from the mic and I feel like I didn’t fully hear the range of your voice.
I noticed that the script talks about 9 planets…R.I.P. Pluto, you’ll always be #9 to me! 🙂
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Hey! any feedback is appreciated:
Somewhere in the Caribbean, there are 5-star luxury resorts where it’s all-inclusive, all the time. Sandals, where love is all you need. Because everything else is included. Call 1-800-Sandals.
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It’s amazing! I never thought one cereal would make my whole family stay for breakfast. HONEY BUNCHES OF OATS. There’s never been a cereal like it. With big corn flakes and crunchy bunches of oats. Finally … a cereal my whole family loves.
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Hello Amitofu! Your voice is amazing. Very nice job on all three reads. I did notice unnecessary pauses in reads 2 and 3 which caused you reads to not sound like natural conversation. It almost sounds like your reading, the pauses for punctuation seemed to long. But each sentence was paced well and your energy was great I actually did the Honey Bunches of Oats and the Sandals myself. LOL I think that if you read as if your speaking to a person it will make your reads seamless. Your Sandals read had the perfect amount of conversational transition between each sentence. That one was really nice.
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Nice job on these scripts! Out of the 3, I think your enthusiasm builds with each read. The Sandals one has a good pace and I can clearly hear all the words in the script, but I didn’t feel a lot of energy. It’s nice and relaxed, which is what you want to be on vacation. You sounded more excited about Spotify and your energy was great for the cereal script. Good pace and inflection too.
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Hello everybody. I’m looking for feedback on my performance and recording quality. Thanks.
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Corona Refresca brings the flavor and the feeling of the tropics straight to you. Crisp, flavorful, and never too sweet, Corona Refresca is a new premium, alcohol-spiked refresher, available in Passionfruit Lime, Guava Lime and Coconut Lime. Corona Refresca. Bring the Tropics.
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Hi Erik! Sounds great! I do hear the plosives with your “F’ and “P” and I actually just learned how to avoid those so I will share. When you notice a script that has words that begin with letters “P” “B” & “F” these consonants create plosives. I learned that if you speak on the side of your mic and not directly into it the air pressure that would have caused the plosive will go right by your microphone capsule and avoid the plosive entirely. I tried it and it works. In some cases a plosive is unavoidable and can easily be edited out I don’t know what DAW you use but I use Audacity and it can be edited a number of different ways. Amplify, Fade In/Fade Out, and by using the envelope tool in Audacity. Hope this helps! Nice Job.
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Hi there! I love this script and I think your energy and passion for this topic is coming through, you have great energy for this commercial! There are a few things that stood out to me. You emphasized the word “and” in ” and the feeling” but you should be emphasizing the word “feeling”. And is not really ever the important word, but the thing that comes after it is. You treated the list really nicely “Crisp, flavorful, and never too sweet” because you have a different feel and intention behind each part of the list. There were a couple of times you pitched down which could get in the way of sounding positive. You pitched down on the word “refresher”. So these are just a couple things that stood out to me, but nice work! 🙂
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The overall tone is good. I notice each time you say an ‘f’ sound there’s a extra spittle type sound (sorry I don’t know quite how to say). At ‘crisp, flavorful’ there’s either a lip smack or a pop. And at the end, when you last say “Corona Refresca” the mic definitely pops. These are all minor issues, and being hydrated will probably help. You’ve got the voice down good, just minor tweaks needed.
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Hi Brian! Very Nice! Only thing I can say is that with this read it makes me want to know what you look like for some reason. And I was told that can take away from the focal point of the job. I don’t know if you just sounded intriguing or what. It sounds great just a little less inflection to sound more narrative.
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Sounds great to me Brian! Feels like you’ve got the style and pace right. Audio is good and clear. I did notice 3 or 4 breath sounds along the way, but I’m still quite new to all this and haven’t had any coaching or practise on documentary style reads, so maybe a few breath sounds are acceptable in the longer documentary style reads? Either way, great job! Toque
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If you Google it, you’ll find a whole range of opinions on breath sounds, but from what my coaches have told me, just leave them in unless they are truly distracting. (I took out the weird-sounding mouth noises, they’re just gross.)
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Hi all…I’m starting my coaching work for my animation demo in two weeks, and part of my prep work is to come up with 10 original characters. I recorded a scratch track as a means of testing some of them out…would I be able to get feedback on the variety? Do any of them sound too alike? Are there some that you think I should lean into more? (Don’t worry about the writing or the acting, I’ll dial that in once I have the character voices more solidified.) Thanks!
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Again Brian, great work! You’ve got some good variety in there. I numbered your voices from 1 – 10 in the order they appear on your reel. The only areas I thought there may be some similarity between voices were:
Voices # 2 and #3 (0:11 – 0:35), to my ear anyway, sounded quite similar, with # 3 just being louder.
Voices # 1 (0:00 – 0:11) and #5 (0:52 – 1:06 – “sorry I ate the landlord”) sounded similar to me.
But overall, great stuff! Hope this helps. Toque
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This….is my voice.
There is no music, and there are no sound effects…only the pure, clear sound, recorded for your ears.
I am a voice over artist, a voice actor, a voice talent, and I can convey my message in many ways, in many tones and with many emotions.
I can speak in a very light whisper, to share an intimate message with you. Or my voice can boom deeply, demanding respect from those who are listening. My voice can express sympathy to someone who has just experienced a great loss, or it can reflect the happiness one feels after having accomplished something great!
I sit (or stand) before this tube constructed of metals, of plastics, of wire and of silicon, which listens patiently to me, as if it were alive like a mistress, hour after hour, day after day and night after night. It never judges me, however it is a reflection of me….one which is neither vengeful, nor forgiving.
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Good Overall!
If you did want areas I think you could improve, I’d say: When you talk about being sympathetic voice vs expressing happiness, try to express those without changing the volume of your voice. I would also look at changing the tone/inflection when you’re reading items on a list. eg; “I can convey my message in many ways, in many tones and with many emotions” it got a little monotonous.
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Did you write this? I can see this being a very cool project with clips from a bunch of different VOs edited together.
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Hello All! Back with a practice script I did a little editing and added some music I was wholely inspired by Sean my new friend who doesn’t know it yet! Lol But here goes I hope it sonds good I am playing more and more with editing and my Audacity 101 course is tonight! So excited!
M-me? steal the gem M’lord? laughable, really! I’ll admit, I’ve done some petty burglary in the past… But! but, I served my time for that! These preposterous accusations… do you really think I’d be capable of such a heist? P-please M’lord you must reconsider, please? You can’t be serious M’lord you must understand! No! Please, have mercy!
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Sounds great! maybe a little more energy, and maybe a pinch louder. In terms of interpretation, I’m certainly not saying the angle was ‘wrong’, but the vibe I got from this script was that it was a little more sheepish and guilty. The speaker is not just afraid of “M’lord” but also trying to make up excuses on the fly. When they say “But! But, I served my time for that!” it’s a coy coaxing. In “Do you really think ‘I’d’ be capable of such a heist, ‘I’ should be emphasised, as if maybe someone else could be certainly not the speaker. Again, this is strictly how I interpreted it, but it was basically a person of lower stature trying to manipulate their superior (to evade their wrath). Maybe try that as a variation.
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Wow, another great read Lexi! You’re killing it! If this is for an audiobook, it was spot on. If for an animation soundtrack, maybe the tempo should pick up a tiny bit? Tiny bit. Love the music!
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Hi I’m just beginning to get my feet wet in the VO world. Been enjoying the learning curve thus far. Have been learning the ropes with my
DAW and been practicing with some scripts. Would like to receive some feedback on one of my first recordings. Thanks-
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Great tone. You definitely have the pipes for it. Only 2 suggestions/notes:
1) slow down the delivery some. Don’t rush. Your natural tone just oozes gravitas, so no need to go fast to convey importance.
2) more of a production thing (I come from the production side of things and just always have an ear out): I heard a couple of little mouth clicks in there over the music, but they were isolated, so I would just take them out and it would be smooth as h**l from that side. -
Sean, that was great! Loved it all…if I would change one thing, it would be the pause between the last two words, which sounded more like a period (We think you’ll find the difference. Considerable.) than an ellipsis (We think you’ll find the difference…considerable!). Barely noticeable though. Great read.
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Sean Ima need you to stop ok. Just getting your feet wet??? You sound like a pro my man!!! Sound quality is tight added music sounds right! You must be extremly good with the technical side of things like editing and mastering. This sounds amazing I have nothing but kudos for you! And can we be friends?
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