Nice. I love the accent

I'm so curious about how your audio is so crips and clean! The articulation and punctuation is smooth, it sounds like professional quality.

Great character to keep in your ‘rolodex’ of characters to draw from! I’d make notes about this character - the style, where the voice sits, name the character, etc. and add it to your list of characters you can draw from for other projects. It helps to have them written down for easy reference at a future date. You may even want to add/save a sample audio file of this character speaking so you can easily refer back to it.

Be sure to remove any extraneous clicks at the beginning of your audio recording.

0:26 Be careful when playing with the rolling of the letters to ensure you are still accurately reading the script. I hear “bre” instead of “be”.

0:42 Mispronounced “propitiated”. Don’t be afraid to look up how to pronounce words online if you aren’t familiar with them. Some great reference sources where you can hear the pronunciations include Cambridge Dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/) [which includes US and UK pronunciations], youglish.com, forvo.com and You Tube Videos among other places (there’s a lot of options out there). You can simply type in “How to pronounce [word]” in Google search and it should give you several references. (Try to avoid the ones that sound like a robot read them.)

0:51 Mispronounced “Dalmation”.

0:58 “Realized” felt like the end wasn’t fully pronounced. Make sure you don’t lose the ends of words when practicing articulation and enunciation. In natural speaking, the ends tend to fall off or not be hit hard, but exercising and strengthening the quality to fully pronounce words is an excellent tool to have in your tool box. Really focus on hitting all of the letters in the words and clearly pronouncing all of them. When practicing articulation and enunciation it’s good to over-do it.

Nice change-up for the character voice on the tongue twister. In auditions having a second take that is distinctly different from your first take helps to show casting directors your range. 

Having the microphone input pointed at your mouth but offset to one side maybe 20-30 degrees can help reduce plosives as it allows air to pass by the microphone instead of directly into it. Adding a pop filter if you don’t already have one can also help. 

Try to have waveform peaks for yelling/loud projection land between -9 dB and -3 dB. For normal talking, try to have the waveform peaks between -12 and -6 dB. Shoot for -3dB of headroom. You may need to adjust your gain for louder and quieter parts; if so, it helps to know where to turn the gain to in order to achieve optimal levels during recording. 

Staying well hydrated will help to reduce mouth clicks during recording. A good rule of thumb is to hydrate well a couple of hours before recording and drink water in between as you’re recording to stay hydrated. 

When you’re ready to take the next step to improve your voiceover recording, you will want to look into treating your recording space with acoustic foam (we recommend 4” thick) and/or blankets to help reduce the reflections and reverb in the space. Basically covering any hard, reflective surfaces that sound bounces off of with soft materials like blankets or towels, etc. It’s not necessary for this class however as we are just focusing on the basics of voice acting, but something to think about as you progress in your journey.

For the purpose of this homework to work on enunciation, articulation and clearly pronouncing the words, and in particular the “P”, “T”, and “D” sounds for this exercise… I felt like you did a very good job overall. The last letters of words are easy to “lose” when reading and I did hear some here and there that weren’t fully pronounced at the end of words. Slowing down to really focus on over-articulating and practicing can help to strengthen this skill as will the tongue twisters. 

Keep up the excellent work!