Voice Acting with The Book The Horse and His Boy

I practiced voice acting with the book The Horse and His Boy, by the author C.S. Lewis. Then I recorded it using Audition.

Here is a picture of the book:

I noticed that when I was listening to to the recording my voice sounded younger, and I could hear the air bouncing off the microphone. I couldn't figure out why it was doing that. I thaught that maby the microphone probably got unplugged. If that happened it would have recorded using the built-in computer microphone. The blue snowball microphone that I use is a much better quality microphone. 

In Audition my recorded voice was much lower in the graphical visualization part of the screen. 

I don't know how to use Audition to fix this problem yet.

Cork Exercise

My dad found a video about a guy named Patrick Muñoz and in the video he was showing an exercise for voice acting.

Here's the video:


When I try to say it with a bottle cap in my mouth (I couldn't find a bottle cork so I used a bottle cap) I sound like this "I sfpeak wif a sturong vwoice."

I think I'll try this for a few weeks! 

Australian accent in Clinton Anderson video

I''m practicing repeating fourteen times the following phrase by Clinton Anderson. I'm doing this to learn how to speak with an Australian accent.

"So The Next Thing We're Gonna Talk About Mate"

Then I practice repeating the same phrase by myself. I used Audition to silence 5 other repeats.

"So The Next Thing We're Gonna Talk About Mate"

I got the audio sample from this video on YouTube:

What I Found Out on Audition

Today I found out the fade in & out selection tool.

Here is a picture:


ORANGE: (Above) Notice that this part of recording is puffed out like the other part of the recording 
BLUE: Fade in (left)

RED: Fade out (right)

ORANGE: (Below) Notice that this part of recording is fading in as it goes along to the rest of the recording 


So that's what I found out today on Audition. Even though I probably won't use this some time in the future for any jobs, at least I learned something very useful and I'll be ready if I do need to use it!

Accent Lessons

My mom found a person that was doing a free webinar for teaching a British accent for voice acting.

I'm already signed up for the webinar, and It will start tomorrow at 5 PM.

The person was going to teach me today, but then someone hired her for a VO job.

I hope everything will go out well!