Smart inflection choices in voiceover should and can come directly from real life, but it doesn't always come easy when you're suddenly faced with a script, aka with words that are not your own.  Inflections are a huge part of how we communicate. We raise our voices higher when we are excited. We lower our voices when we are serious. There are...

  Every so often I like to take a moment to recognize how vast the voiceover universe is.  So many articles, ideas, and tips on how to succeed in voiceover….I have come to realize that we all have a niche within this niche here.  For voice actors, your niche might be the professional conversational guy nailing down those corporate narration auditions,...

What’s the most important voiceover tip in the history of voiceover techniques?  It’s actually not a technique at all, and that’s why you will love it.  It requires no skill, no practice, no research, no training.  That’s right coaches; it seems I’m selling us all short here.  But don’t get me wrong, you need all those other layers of understanding.  You...

Here’s a voiceover tip: stop talking.  Oh that was just fun to write.  Seriously, though, there are many levels to listening that can enhance your voice over authenticity.  I was actually inspired to write on this subject from an article written in the voiceover times.  It was lovely and insightful and I actually discovered it was written by an actress...