{"id":161,"date":"2014-03-05T23:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/condolmas.com\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2014-03-04T00:21:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T13:21:20","slug":"got-a-great-speaking-voice-why-that-isnt-enough-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/condolmas.com\/blog\/got-a-great-speaking-voice-why-that-isnt-enough-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Got a Great Speaking Voice? Why That Isn’t Enough \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWow, you\u2019ve got a great speaking voice, you should do voice overs!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever been in a situation where you\u2019re at a social gathering or maybe a work function, and you\u2019ve been listening to someone speak about some topic or other and found yourself thinking, wow, this person has a great speaking voice, they should be on the radio\u2026or they should do voice overs! ?<\/p>\n

You may have been the person doing the speaking and may have had someone say that to you.<\/p>\n

Now, sorry to burst your bubble, but it\u2019s a popular myth that just because you have a gorgeous voice, you can deliver\u00a0engaging voice over audio\u2026to use an analogy I once heard here, that\u2019s like saying just because you have long, nimble fingers, you can be a world-class concert pianist<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026its possible, but not without a lot of training. The key word here is training.<\/p>\n

So, its fine having a beautiful voice, but you have to know what to do with it, and that\u2019s where most people start scratching their heads, after all, there aren’t too many people out there telling you what you need to do to \u201cget it right\u201d.<\/p>\n

There is no one school of thought on what a good voice should be nor\u00a0what makes up a good voice, and that\u2019s because it all depends on the application that the voice is being put to, and what area its being used in.<\/p>\n

Let me give you a simple\u00a0example to illustrate this point.<\/p>\n

Nancy Cartwright\u00a0is an Emmy Award winning actress with this high pitched, nasally voice that some have likened to fingernails scraping down\u00a0a chalkboard, you know the sound I\u2019m talking about, that irksome noise that just grates on your nerves. But in the world of voice overs, she has a million dollar voice\u2026why?<\/p>\n

Because that high pitched nasally voice is exactly what the Fox Network was looking for when they cast the voice of Bart Simpson. Yep, that\u2019s right, Nancy is the voice of Bart. Now if you were to hear Nancy in the street, you probably wouldn’t say she has a great voice, in fact, you might even say she has an annoying voice, but there\u2019s your first lesson folks,\u00a0successfully engaging your target audience is not all about have a \u201cgreat\u201d voice.<\/p>\n

Now, having said that, there are certain basic techniques that a voice over artist needs to possess, primarily Pitch, Pace & Pause<\/p>\n

And the most important of these for a corporate voice over artist is the third one, Pause.<\/p>\n

I think it may have been Beethoven that once said, it\u2019s not the notes, it\u2019s the gaps in between them that make the music, and it\u2019s the same with words.<\/p>\n

In my next post I\u2019ll expand on this a little more.<\/p>\n

Have you ever noticed the impact of a pause? Let me know below.<\/p>\n

Speak Up. Be Heard<\/p>\n

Con<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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