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If you do a basic Google search for training techniques for voice overs, you will probably find a mixed bag of tips on how to get a lower voice, how to raise your voice, or how to get a more interesting sounding voice. As a new voice actor, it is often a good idea to follow the advice of the voice actors who have been making it big in the industry for a long time.

While the pros have great pearls of wisdom to bestow on us all, don’t forsake your common sense to enhance your voice and your career! Not all advice out there is worth following, and many pieces of advice can actually hurt you.

This is by new means a complete list, but it’s a good start!

1. Regularly drink and smoke. You might think this is common sense already, but many DJs were (and still are) told to drink alcohol and smoke on the job to help give their voices more resonance. While regular smoking and drinking will help them gain resonance, it comes at the cost of their range of pitch. What many people don’t know is that this is a natural process that comes with age. Smoking and drink will speed up this process so that you lose your “youthful” voice when you’re young so that you have a richer “mature” voice. When you actually become old though, you might not have much of a voice at all!

2. Drink a shot of alcohol to calm your nerves. During the hours before you record, you shouldn’t be drinking anything other than water for your vocal cords’ sake. If you are actually doing a live recording session with the client, it’s definitely a bad idea to drink before you meet them. Even if that one drink let’s you relax enough to get a couple good takes, it looks (and smells) unprofessional. You might get through the recording session without a hiccup, but the client will likely call another voice talent for future gigs. Forget about the mouthwash — instead, invest in yoga classes or a stress ball.

3. Vocal cord surgery. This one baffles me. There must have been successful operations in the past, otherwise no one would even think about it … The bottom line is vocal cord surgery is likely to be expensive, and there is no guarantee what your voice will sound like post-op. If you are unhappy with the quality of your voice and want to work in a different niche, consider taking voice over training classes to enhance your technique. Especially because more and more clients are opting for voice actors with good natural speaking voices to market their products, there’s simply no reason to mess with what you were born with.

4. Take your vocal range to the breaking point. Stressing the upper and lower registers of your vocal range is not a good idea, and it won’t help you become a better voice over artist in the long run. In the short run, you’ll give yourself a sore throat. In the long run, you may diminish your ability to control your natural vocal range. Developing a more dynamic voice involves the diaphragm, not the vocal cords.

Basically, if a suggested technique is painful or bad for your body, it probably isn’t doing you any good anyway. Stick to your common sense, and don’t listen to everything you hear. What works for one voice actor might not work for you, but one thing is for sure — drinking vodka tonics or whiskey won’t help you rake in the voice jobs! There is no quick fix when it comes to your vocal technique, and there’s no substitute for hard work.

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Every now and then I like put out a gentle reminder that working in the voice-over industry isn’t always as glamorous as it sounds from the outside. It’s certainly not for everyone — no matter of how good your natural speaking voice is!

Of course, no career is always ideal all the time — even the dream job is full of short-comings and inconveniences if you look closely enough. Voice acting is one of those careers that looks perfect from the outside but often calls for irregular hours and unpredictable amounts of work.

If you are considering getting into voice overs, ask yourself what your motivation is. Answer these questions:

1. Are you willing to work more than a 9am – 5pm job? If not, you might have a hard time as a full time voice actor! Some of the most talented and successful voice actors I know are up before dawn and can often be found recording work for clients well into the night. Sure, there are breaks throughout the day, but you should expect periods of feast and famine.

2. Is your interest in voiceovers likely to be short-lived? While it’s hard to predict this one, maybe you can instead ask yourself how long you’ve wanted to get into voiceovers. Before you found out about voice acting, did you pay attention to commercials and radio talk shows? Did you like audiobooks for the good narrators, or did you ever work on impersonations? If you weren’t going to get paid to do voice-overs, would you still do them for fun because you enjoy the creative process?

3. Can you spend a lot of time alone? Voice actors spend a lot of time in solitude! Many people feed off the face-to-face interactions that come from working in an office, but most voice actors only communicate with clients through email or phone. The joke that voice actors are most comfortable in a padded cell holds truth! You should be comfortable working independently, and it certainly helps to be self-motivated.

4. Are you a risk-taker? Like any new career, getting into a voice over career takes an investment. An investment of time, investment of financial resources, and an investment in voice-over training. Just like an acting school would accept your money for acting classes without guaranteeing your success, there is no guarantee that you will succeed in the voiceover industry! That being said, the job market for voiceover artists is continuing to grow at a steady rate, and there is no reason to think that a well-trained, self-motivated voice actor can’t succeed. Remember to respect your budding voice over career and allow yourself time to learn and grow!

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Whether the script you’re working with is a short commercial piece or a longer narration voice over job, you don’t have the leisure as a voice talent to develop the character as you read the script. You have to start out knowing who your character is, what the setting is, and what the purpose of the script is. There’s no time for fumbling through a read! Part of your practice before you even head into your recording book should involve answering those questions.

While it might not make sense to use method acting for voice overs, asking yourself what was going on the moment before the script picks up can help you flesh out a character or script you’re struggling with. Commercial scripts you’ll come across likely fall into one of two categories:

1) Your character is an archetype who represents with a specific complaint, situation or idea. If the specific script is in your niche, you probably know what to do with it.

2) Sometimes the script will be so short or unclear that you won’t be sure what direction the copywriter intends you to take it in.

In the second scenario, imagining a back story can help you get into character and sound more natural.

Answer for yourself: where does the script take place? What was your character doing minutes before the script started? Who is the character talking to? Commit to a back story, and match your voice-over technique to fit the situation. Your pitch, volume, energy and attitude should match the character and situation in the script. If you do this, you’ll probably find that your performance becomes very natural after that!

If your interpretation doesn’t sound right when you play back the recording, don’t worry! Re-think the back story and try it again. The fun part about doing voice overs is that you get the creative freedom to work with different characters!

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“We want to find the bedrock against which all further interpretation of the language should be checked,” These are the words of Mayank Vahia, an astrophysicist in the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai.

Vahia is just one of the members in the team of mathematicians and computer scientists from institutions in the United States and India. It was they who opposed and rejected the claims of scholars who declared that the ancient tablet script found in the Indus Valley is but “rudimentary pictograms” adding that the ancient people, who ages ago had lived there, were illiterate. They had, since then, started their work in solving the puzzle that may say more on the ancient civilizations that once graced the earth.

The Harappan scripts are but one of the epitome of a long lost civilization that once thrive the Indus region. Like the Rosetta Stone, which was found in the Delta in the town of Rosetta (Rashid), this ancient text is yet to be understood as many tried to decipher it for decades–Vahlia and his team being presently involved it’s this study.

Since it was first excavated, up to the present, the Indus civilization is covered in mystery with the Harrapan script left to be deciphered. Even with the uncovering of evidences of large sanitation and bathhouses, which suggests that an empire, larger and older than other known ancient empires are seemingly not enough unless by some luck a new tablet, which may serve in helping decode the Harappa scripts, is dug up.

As published last April and August; in Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences, respectively, Vahlia’s team had incorporated the use of computer modeling to prove their part that the Harappan text do carry communicated language. Since claiming the study, they have studied the scripts comparing it to other ancient scripts, using a computer program. After the series of test, they state that the script has similar entropy to other writings. “Conditional entropy” is defined as “a degree of randomness in a given sequence”. It was using this theory that the team had quantified the said ancient scripts.

For years the Harrapan had been claimed by Scholars from Southern India to be of proto-Dravidian: (1) the fact that Dravidian language was spoken in the West Indus, Brahui (Baluchistan and Afghanistan); (2) Rig Veda, the first of the four religious Hindu scripture, is in the form of Dravidian; and (3) Sanskrit has borrowed words from the Dravidian. However, even with claim, it seems that this is not enough.

The secrets of the Ancient Civilization in the Indus Valley may be kept hidden from the world for more years to come. But with an open mind and determination to bring on ideas, there’s a possibility that the pieces of the jigsaw may fall in place and be solved. ‘Till then we are bound to suspense with the mysteries that the ancients keep.

This composition is made as a background check on the study in uncovering the mysteries of the ancient civilization that once thrived in the Indus Valley.

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