Great read! 

0:37 Read “on” instead of “and”.

0:54 “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.

0:57 Read “flooded” instead of “came flooding”.

1:09 When you misread or have a little stumble (happens to everyone and it’s okay!), it’s highly encouraged to start again at the beginning of the sentence or paragraph or a good pause point that would make it easy to remove and replace the mistake during editing. If you just keep going and don’t return to a solid point that makes it easy to edit out the mistake, you may need to come back later and re-record as a pick-up, and it becomes challenging to make it sound the same as the original recording. So, a good rule of thumb is to record so that it’s easy to edit later. When the mistakes are then edited out, it will sound like you read everything perfectly. 

Generally a good distance between the microphone and your mouth as you are recording, as a rule of thumb, is the space between your pinky and thumb when they are extended apart from each other. Make sure that the input for the microphone is pointed toward your mouth. May I ask what you recorded with and what your setup currently is? A phone, laptop, or something else? All good, just curious, as I may have some suggestions to try depending on your setup.

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.

After you’ve recorded, be sure to listen back and quality check your work and remove any errors or long pauses for actual auditions and gigs to make sure you’ve accurately read the script. 

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. Really focus on over-articulating and practicing can help to strengthen this skill as will the tongue twisters. 

Nice job overall! Keep up the great work!