I have been interested in voice acting, narration, voiceover and the like since I was a little lady . I was exposed to wonderful recordings as a child, maybe even as a baby, and I learned early on how expressive and delightful the voice can be, in storytelling, poetry recitation, and comedy.
Having been raised by two actor parents who loved to read aloud was a definite advantage.
Now, after thirty years in show business doing almost everything one can do with voice, including singing, radio, audiobook directing, animation, looping, videogames, apps, narration, sound effects, ring tones, impressions, animal noises, even GPS system voice recordings, I find that I have some definite opinions about voice over acting, and some artistic tips for people starting out.
One thing that I think is both vital to understand and practice and also rather easy to explain is the following, which applies to any vocal performance where one is working from a script.
The script should never drive the performance; the actor is in charge of pace, emotion, timing and everything else.
I think this is best illustrated by listening to a child read anything, or better yet, a digitized voice. Both are mechanical to the degree that they do not exercise judgement about what they are reading. One word follows the other in more or less the same pace, the sentences follow without pause, or with identical pauses, just as if a little conveyor belt were feeding the words out.
Obviously, this is not good technique if you want the audience to feel anything or follow the thread of your discourse, whether you are reading Chaucer or explaining how to boost ROI by using a new website dashboard. It is the ultimate of dissatisfying storytelling; nobody would listen to it.
Strangely, I have found many examples of computer generated narration of audiobooks on YouTube; it is inconceivable to me that anyone other than another laptop would ever listen to such a recording for more than a minute. I was young when i entered the stage like 7 years old . I had a lot of hopes at the same time so afraid because ot was a group a huge group of people though i was ready the day before but now i understand how hard it was for a 7 year old girl feel. Then i also enter the stage when i grow up to 13 and i was so excited i felt all the scary feelings disappear i was just happy it was amazing . I dont know why this was more perfect than the other one maybe Because of my new friends people i didnt know and they dont know me so we had a fresh start . I liked every second of it it was beautiful so beautiful . I had fun and alot of us actually then i remember my childhood experience and how afraid i was but now i am well good and happy .
