Good pacing and vocal clarity!

Really nicely read! Very accurate as well overall. I could picture you doing long-form narration like audiobooks or corporate narration among other genres of voice acting. 

0:41 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.)

1:11 Missed the word “of”

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. 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. Having the microphone input pointed at your mouth but offset to one side maybe 20-30 degrees can help reduce plosives. (Though I do see much improvement from your last homework!)

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. 

As you progress with voice acting, investing in the RX series mouth declick plug-in is a very useful and worthwhile tool to have at your disposal to help keep the recording as clean as possible. 

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 articulation and enunciation, (particularly for P, T, and D sounds for this exercise script), I could tell you were working on the articulation in places, but I feel like there is still room for improvement. I encourage you to continue to strengthen this skill by really focusing on hitting all of the letters in the words to fully and clearly pronounce them including the endings. 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 voice acting tool box. 

Really hit the letters of P, T, and D in this exercise no matter where they fall within the word. For example, the word “little” be sure to hit those “t’s” harder when you are practicing articulation exercises. Try over-enunciating and over-articulating like Burger showed in class with the cork trick. 

Don’t forget to include the tongue twisters with your homework going forward. :)