Well howdy pardner! For this episode we’ve got the world’s leading expert on the General American accent to describe its features, talk us through common mistakes people make when learning it and help us figure out how to adjust for age, gender and ethnicity. We also hear from a bunch of fantastic, real-life American voiceovers about their experiences with using it, and even a little bit about the psychological impact of conforming to a geographically non-specific standard.
Find out more about Rebecca Gausnell here, including a page where you can buy her book, Mastering The American Accent: https://www.gausnell.com
Here’s the American dialect website Rebecca mentions: https://aschmann.net/AmEng/
Thank you so much to our lovely contributors:
Anna Klein https://www.annakleinactor.com/
Robynne Orr https://www.vororr.com/
Thomas Wynn https://www.thethomaswynn.com/voice-acting
Zara Hannaford https://zarahannaford.com/
GET YOUR VO CAREER PLANNER: https://www.thevosocial.com/the-voiceover-career-planner
Theme tune written and performed by Martin Stirrup under this Creative Commons license, with violin by Alice Gilmour
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64. The Handover Episode
63. An update!
62. Scripts Out Loud
61. A lot of news. Like, a LOT.
59. New York New York
58. Who Are You And What Do You Want!?
...one quick last thing!
57. The One Voice Conference 2022
56. Animal Noises
55. Breathing
54. Editing
53. The Good Session
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52. The Bad Session
51. The Voiceover Career Planner
50. The Negotiator
49. Accent Discrimination
48. The Voice Exercises
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