0772 – The Greatest Vocal Athletes

2023.02.11 – 0772 – The Greatest Vocal Athletes  

The voice-overs with perhaps the most vocal stamina have to be the audiobook narrators. Recording day after day for a total of 70 hours is not unheard of, and on top of that (for fiction books at least) creating and remembering different voices and accents for different characters, and reading with different sets of emotions and volumes.

Another skill is keeping up the enthusiasm, perhaps for page after page of content that you are not particularly interested in, and not letting your mind wander.

And painting the picture with your words… well, OK the words of someone else but you are the conduit between the page they wrote and the ears of the listener.

Think of what you are doing as a heightened state of performance. Most people listen to audiobooks while doing something else, and your presentation has to cut through.

Having said all that, for fiction book narrators, it’s not necessarily having a ‘good voice’ (whatever that is!), but the ability to use it properly in telling a good story; a clear voice.

These narrators are truly actors.

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