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Hi! Upload your recordings, and get feedback from your peers!
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Hi Everyone, I’m new to voice-over and to posting, as well as, uploading audio of practice scripts. With the audio file below, I’m working on my narration style in corporate training. Currently, I don’t have equipment and am just using my phone, so for now, I’m looking for any feedback as it relates to my tempo, and tone or anything related to voice, not tech. I know what is sought after nowadays is a conversational tone and I’m trying to keep that in mind. This is just a short file to start with. I’m thinking of pursuing the narration genres of corporate and e-learning, non-profit and self-help. Thanks for any feedback 🙂
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Hi, Lorraine, your voice is smooth, pleasant, and clear. The pacing here is a bit slow, and it sounds like you’re reading the script carefully, but not necessarily paying attention to the words. I think if you speak with more energy and engagement, it will vary the dynamic range and sound more natural. Good to hear you!
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Thanks, Mel! Sorry for the delay – I haven’t been super active the last week. I appreciate the feedback and I’m working on improving my pace while sounding natural. I saw you posted scripts and I will make sure to take a listen. It is so helpful to listen to others and learn from you all. Looking forward to more interaction!
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Hi Lorraine.
Daniel in San Diego. Agree with Amanda, you have a very soothing, nice sounding voice, which is a gift. Also agree you could pick up the pace a bit and reduce pauses, which will definitely make it sound more authentic/conversational. I think because your voice is soothing (and considering that e-learning can at times be plodding), I think your take would also improve if you project more, with a slightly less soft tone, especially in the first part of the script. It might also encourage a wider tonal range and a more dynamic opening. Hope this helps. Good work. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi Lorraine!
You have a lovely, calming tone of voice that is easy to listen to :). Your pace is smooth, but a couple of the pauses might have been a half second to long, kind of leaving me to leeeean in waiting for the next sentence. Your pitch is pleasing, as well…I’d even suggest varying it just a bit more throughout the script, to put some more emphasis in some areas. Overall, very nice!
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It has been sometime since I had posted and had been very busy, but with vacation time coming up I may need get the two recordings posted. They are both Commercial and Narration. Please give me any feedback I could use it to improve myself as I am considering to dive more into voice over and finally get more into it.
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Hi Dillon!
Amanda here, in Colorado. Thanks for sharing your recordings! You have a nice tone. You had more energy and were more “believable” in your second VO for Excedrin (also, do be careful of correct pronunciation in this one, with the word Excedrin, specifically). Your pace in the first read could be a little faster, and be sure to carefully enunciate each word. There were a few times I couldn’t quite understand a word here and there. I would also suggest practicing the scripts like you’re talking to someone you know, as well as use some natural body movement (hand gestures, upper body movement), that will help you accompany your words with more feeling as well as be able to pronounce them more clearly. When your energy went up in the Excedrin read, it was great – no more headache!! Hurray!!
Hope this helps as you continue foward, Dillon!
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Hello! I enjoyed listening to your reads – definitely felt like you connected more with the commercial one. Your tone, in my opinion, had the right amount of emotion for that type of commercial. I do think that you mispronounced Excedrin – take a listen again – it doesn’t sound the way it is pronounced. That was the only thing I caught and it’s easy to fix! For the narration – your voice is definitely friendly and not hard to listen to, but I thought there were points where there were pauses that perhaps were not needed. I mentioned to another fellow actor, to try to picture a good friend sitting across from you and you are telling them about it – read your script as if you are talking to them. I think that way, we develop a more conversational tone and our words have more variety in terms of pitch and tempo. My coach suggested I use my hands as a way to help me engage with the words better. Hope some of this makes sense and helps!
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Hi there. I’m working on becoming a narrator, medical narration, eLearning and similar-type genres. I’d like your overall impressions. Also would like to know if I sound conversational.
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Hi! I am by no means an expert here, but I know in order for us to improve, we have to also “learn” to hear others’ scripts and learn to be able to give feedback, so here I am! I will go by what my coach focused in my session with her. Firstly, I think you sound very clear and concise which is awesome. Secondly, one of the things I was told to think about is, pretend you have a friend sitting across from you at the table. So read your script in the way you would speak it to that person. Another tip she had for me was to use a word that leads in to the script (you can always cut that part out of your audio, but if it helps to make us feel like it’s a conversation, then it’s helpful!). It’s hard for me to think about it, I actually have to say the “lead in” word, like “So….” I also thought there was a bit of pausing in between words, so it seemed there was some hesitation. I downloaded the TwistedWave app on my phone and I use it to record and listen to myself and re-record a ton of times, but it’s great to be able to hear myself and notice what I like and don’t like. I hope this was somewhat helpful and do personally think narration is a great category for you!
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I am currently renting a studio for my auditions that has a noise floor of about -30 dB before my fx chain brings it down below -60 dB. (I think the -30 dB roomtone doesn’t sound too bad in this instance). Is it seen as unprofessional if, when I hypothetically booked a job using this studio where the job was looking to have the booking recorded at a remote studio, I then opted to rent a higher end studio with better noise floor before processing? I’m not sure if they would have vetted the first studio in the audition, then would be upset if I wanted to change to have better raw audio. Attached are samples of my VO in the studio before and after processing with roomtone at the end.
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I just came here to say this Acura commercial makes me want to buy one! Alas! maybe once I make it in the Voice-over world 😀 Really enjoy your voice and think it’s powerful and just right for this commercial. I did not notice glottal stops, which I’m just learning is a thing. The only thing I noticed is the script used a lot of the word, “future”, but I suppose that is not on you. Great job!
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Greetings fellow VOs. Looking for some feedback on this two-take 25-second como for Laramie Air that requested a “western read”. Thanks in advance. the pace of the read was as directed by client.
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Hi Dave. Daniel in San Diego. You’ve got a great voice for this! I hear the pace was directed by the client. That may be the case, but you may want to use one of your takes to let them hear what it would sound like a little faster and with shorter pauses. It seems a bit too slowed down. Just my impression. Pace aside, I think you could still vary your second take from the first even more than you have. You use somewhat more tonal range in the second one, but less than you could maybe? I hear the 2 “character” voices, which is good, but they’re still quite similar to my ear. The depth of your natural voice already suggests a “cowboy” quality so I don’t think you even need to put the character voice on. Just having the thought in your mind will bring it out enough. Otherwise, it can sound exaggerated in parts. My two cents, of course, and I’m splitting hairs because they’re already both very good reads that show lots of possibility. Excellent!
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Acura Commercial Practice – Looking for some feedback before my next coaching session! Things I was told to work on in the past include – Pacing – too fast, getting lazy with enunciation and pronunciation of multi syllable words, dreaded glottal stops.
Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Edited with Audacity – noise reduction, compressed, amplified and exported to mp3.
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Silverado Commercial Practice – Looking for some feedback before my next coaching session! Things I was told to work on in the past include – Pacing – too fast, getting lazy with enunciation and pronunciation of multi syllable words, dreaded glottal stops.
Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated. Edited with Audacity – noise reduction, compressed, amplified and exported to mp3.
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