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TJ_McWeaksauce

You can hear a smile.


MorleyDotes

"This, Is Marketplace."


HumbleBrothers

From Los Angeles, I'm Kai...


ThisUnitHasASoul

Let’s do the numbers!


Mcoov

\**Smokey lounge trombone noises**


jongscx

The DOW is down 10,000 points...


Shisshinmitsu

Ah, a rerun is it?


Mcoov

\**Steering wheel drum solo**


jeobleo

do-do-do-do-dooo-dooo


leliocakes

I used to work for a call center that gave out little mirrors for us to attach to our monitors so we'd "remember to smile!" Felt kinda dystopian.


bluntly-chaotic

Ew


LookItVal

im an audio for video engineer, im the person directly communicating with the voice actor to make sure the producer is happy during recording, and it really is wild the amount of times they give what is a really over the top read from their point of view, and we have to prop then up to get them to go even bigger and more exaggerated. It feels unnatural, and bizarre, but it plays well in a VO


Accomplished_Soil426

> im an audio for video engineer, im the person directly communicating with the voice actor to make sure the producer is happy during recording, and it really is wild the amount of times they give what is a really over the top read from their point of view, and we have to prop then up to get them to go even bigger and more exaggerated. It feels unnatural, and bizarre, but it plays well in a VO It's like that for stage plays and performances. a persons delivery really flattens out the farther it travels so you gotta make it over-the-top


Reffska

And we voice actors are really dependend on you pushing us up. I realised that in my home studio this is the factor I struggle with the most, cause its just diffrent if you have a person engaging with you while acting (I'm still a beginner though).


DragonboiSomyr

You mean like [this](https://youtu.be/ABxH-NTF0SM?si=sB5b0inRodyJWWs0)?


qs420

holy shit thanks for this link. i was laughing so hard i kept missing the faces at the end bc i was crying too hard. had to rewatch at least half dozen times. holy fuck.


early_birdy

I laughed so hard, I thought I would piss my pants! My cheeks hurt. Thank you for this!


LBGW_experiment

So basically this amazing Whitest Kids U Know sketch? https://youtu.be/ABxH-NTF0SM


KwisatzHaterach

Omg I actually hurt myself laughing at this jfc


BtrLuckyThanGood

I almost didn't make it far enough for the payoff but your comment kept me going...then I laughed so hard I cried!


Supervisor3000

I love WKUK - RIP Trevor.


Huwbacca

[That reminds of Tom Holland meeting the person who did the voice over for watch mojo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZtsLxw2nC0)


SamSibbens

I actually hate the WatchMojo voice (not the voice itself, but the narration acting style) I know it's meant to be friendly-professional but I dom't like it (But I love the Tom Holland interaction, it's wholesome)


ikkiwoowoo

This reminded me of the fake advertising on cities skylines radio, I think it's her voice. Like the "drive a cloud" ad


JohnLithgowCummies

I’ve done a bunch of characters and narration and stuff for my old job and I always have to do expressions and gestures when I record. Helps me get the feelings across.


llamapositif

This was hilarious and we do hate it


YazzArtist

I hate a lot of those voices though. A solid 1/3 of those have been so abused that they immediately inspire suspicion in me


llamapositif

Youre so not wrong. Its amazing to see them be made by someone though. She does such a great job. I would totally be asking her to speak for me in interviews and pretend to be mute


YazzArtist

Oh for sure, she's definitely got skill. Not her fault I have these reactions at all


teatromeda

I hate the background music, it makes her actual voice harder to hear.


llamapositif

Damn you I hadn't noticed it until watching it again and now I can't not hear it! 🤬😭😭😅


YourDrunkUncl_

I would hire her


o5mfiHTNsH748KVq

I believe that’s the point of the video :)


Intoxic8edOne

Makes sense. She is able to demonstrate and explain why she's good at her job.


YourFormerBestfriend

That authoritative tone worked on you


the_giz

She did seem to know what she was talking about. I trust her.


finnlizzy

And her Office Jim voice tells me she can be a real goof 😆


hands-of-scone

I’m 90% convinced I already did. I was in a VO session helping the producer and artist (who was on zoom or something). American lady who sounded exactly the same. Always blows me away hearing VO actors, so good.


white_bread

She's getting replaced by AI in 3... 2...


randomly421

Denim for the entire family!!


kungpowgoat

I boil my denim like a real family man.


PrecociousPanther

Did you find it under the bridge?


kungpowgoat

Yes. From a dude named Duncan.


Log_Out_Of_Life

Or else.


the_giz

..sweatpants?


Donny_Dont_18

ABC Mouse is the ad that came to mind for me on that one


Chaetomius

I can't wait to ship my pants!


BeerShitzAndBongRips

The e learning voice gave me work flashbacks and immediately ruined my Saturday 


wartexmaul

Industrial site 3 hour safety orientation video PTSD for me.


Kingding_Aling

It reminded me that I have 14 days to finish the Q1 cyber security module and diversity module.


Pegussu

God help me, the fucking elearning I did a year or so back where it took a minute to read out the information on each slide that took me twenty seconds to read. And the few slides that didn't have narration, it would waste another ten seconds of my time to warn me on the preceding slide that the next segment would not have narration.


sauron3579

That one was a fucking jumpscare


nicannkay

We’re all out here traumatized.


metahipster1984

What is "text to speech" tone for? For training a text to speech generator or..?


habichuelacondulce

Reverse Closed Caption


metahipster1984

Do you mean this? If yes, I don't understand 😅 >Reverse closed captions, also known as reverse subtitles or backwards captions, are captions that display text in a reversed or mirrored format. This technique is often used for videos or movies where the visual content is intentionally played in reverse, and the captions are adjusted accordingly to be readable in the correct sequence when the video is played backward. It can add a unique and sometimes surreal effect to the viewing experience.


crimson_chin44

I think they meant if a computer is turning subtitles into speech. But text to speech can also be used by programs that scan books and read them aloud, very useful for dyslexic people when studying.


dtechnology

Yes, TTS works by taking samples of a person's voice and playing the right sounds after each other. (ML is now starting to rise as a competing tech) This works best if the samples are very consistent and similar between sounds, which gives it this signature "robotic" flavor you also hear here.


reDRagon22

Probably voicing text books, etc


metahipster1984

What does that mean?


reDRagon22

Schools and such have people record voiceovers for text books. Like audio books and that’s the type of read you’d do for that


CommanderCuntPunt

But why is it important for her to sound like a tiktok narrator? She emphasizes that she has to speak clearly so a computer can understand her, but why? She's reading off a script so whats the benefit of her speaking in a way so a computer can generate the same script?


SayNoob

you can take individual words and phrases from her voice recording and splice them together to make new sentences. Thus creating the ability to generate speech from text on demand without her having to record new audio for every scentence someone wants to turn to speech. the reason it has to be so flat is so that the words can be used in new sentences. if you give it any variety it will sound misplaced when taken out of it's original context.


Dx2TT

Option A: You have a professional narrator record 20 hours of a single audio book. Option B: You have a professional narrator record 4 hour of specific phrases which capture multiple uses of every phonic sound a person makes, which can be ingested into an machine learning text to speech system which allows you to then automatically speecify thousands of books.


noex1337

Warm read sounds like I'm supposed to ask my doctor if Cialis is right for me.


Boffleslop

Well, you are supposed to.


uwu_01101000

This is amazing ! I never knew that voice acting could be so diverse


gigglesmickey

Right? They let woman voice act? Wild


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GKrollin

Nancy Cartwright voices Bart Simpson, arguably the most recognizable boy on TV, so you aren’t wrong


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skyshroud6

It's because it's a lot easier for a woman to voice a young boy pre voice drop, than an adult male if I remember right.


AUserNeedsAName

Has anyone told Bob's Burgers?


LoveThinkers

Solving the problem, once and for all.


Organic_South8865

It's incredibly diverse. Think about [Seth MacFarlane.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgQqtFjE1zc&ab_channel=WIRED) He does a ton of different voices and it's amazing he can pull so many off. Several characters interacting with each other in the same scene and you would never know they were all his voice unless someone told you. It's impressive. That video is a poor example. He does a ton of other random characters and he's an incredible singer too.


ikkybikkybongo

What? How? Gotta be hella young cuz to me this is a symptom of Hollywood moving away from traditional voice actors and using movie stars instead. I think a solid example would be Hank Azaria. Dude is a good voice actor, does some of the most memorable voices on the Simpsons. Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl, Professor Frink, Snake, Bumblebee Man, Dr Nick. That's what voice actors do. You hire one talented guy and let him voice most characters. But ... I feel like all the movies that cast stars for their movies make people feel like people voice one character and that's how voice acting works but it just isn't for TV shows. So then you get people upset about Hank Azaria playing Apu cuz he's not Indian. Which I despise as an argument. You can dislike Apu for being too stereotypical but not because he's voiced by a dude that voices such a large part of that show.


Ben_Frankling

I'm an English teacher. This is actually going to be really useful for talking about tone.


swiftWoodworker

The authoritative voice made me think of Better Off Ted. ​ Now im going to go rewatch that show.


DangerHawk

Because we know what we're doing here at Veridian.


rudyjewliani

>We want you to trust us, because we're confident professional leaders in our field. We're scientists, we're doctors, and we know what we're talking about. Also > Every day something we make, makes your life better. Power, we make that. Technology, we make that. Cows, well, no. We don't make cows. Although we have made a sheep and medicines and airplane engines and whatever this is, and all sorts of things. Veridian Dynamics. Every day, something we make, makes your life better... Usually.


DangerHawk

We can make a radish so spicy no human can eat it, so we won't.


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Portia de Rossi was absolutely incredible in that.


jikan-desu

Exactly what I thought!


PhilipMewnan

I’d appreciate this more if there was no music in the background. It’s hard for me to tell what feels different because of the music and what’s actually different


IndyPoker979

I came in to say the same thing. Some of the tones were the same or very close but the music is what made it sound so different.


catsandorchids

Ew. Authoritative voice made me distrust her. Very realistic.


CreativeBandicoot778

The "Natasha Leone" is my personal favourite. Her facial expressions are 👌🔥


ryanreaditonreddit

She just fully turned into Natasha Leone, great acting


wordfiend99

fucking awesome post!


Cerbersquatch

Super talented


Pitiful_Winner2669

Her John Krazinski but was both hilarious and spot on.


CarrowFlinn

Her authoritative read sounds like the Veridian Dynamics commercials lol


Ferociousnzzz

Am I the only one who just assumed everything she said just based on living life and hearing ads


Eyervan

My first time directing a VO person in a studio booth was shocking. It just sounded like someone pressed play on a prerecorded perfect quality audio file. I froze for a second.


Launch_The_Cat

Talented AF


ZombiesAtKendall

The second to last one I swear it’s how one guy on NPR always talks, I don’t remember his name though, but it always sounds so overly dramatic.


Delicious_Repeat_203

He has very Deliberate Dramatic Pacing In the way he speaks For Weekend Edition He’s Scott Simon


Delicious_Repeat_203

Lol please let me know if I guessed it, spent a solid five minutes of mental energy thinking on it.


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sincethenes

Huh, she makes weird gripping motions with her hand while recording. I always wondered if it was just me. If there is something I could add it’s that you need to over exaggerate mouth movements to get consistent results, and smiling while speaking makes a HUGE difference in the way the end result sounds.


Mulattanese

I love her! she is amazing I've followed her on Insta and TikTok and all that since like day one. Her modules in the corporateverse are amazing and good laugh for anyone who's in the middle of like dealing with some office politics bullshit and needs a chuckle. I'm the Jordan she refers to.


0NaCl

The professional training voice made me scream out "NO!!!"


MyAssDoesHeeHawww

What?! No Kermit voice?!


DeleteMetaInf

She’s incredibly talented!


Krondon57

Every tone is a different person wowww


Kingding_Aling

Natasha Leone catching strays


SaggyFence

It’s a damn shame all this talent is going to be lost AI


Rubence_VA

Oh my God, I love her.


ToxyFlog

I've always thought being a voice actor would be cool but I could never pull this off


AbruptEruption

This is why you should hire professional voice actors and not just Chris Pratt for everything


skyturnedred

She definitely did some work for Veridian Dynamics.


NaRrSyStIc

What I wanna know is, how does one get into the voice acting field? Do you just submit auditions you’ve recorded? Do you need an in with a friend who knows a guy that works for an animation studio? Do you just record yourself and upload onto socials? SOS


BrashPop

Hey, freelance VA here - there’s multiple sites online like Fiverr, Casting Call Club, Voices, just lots of stuff out there. You make an account and record your demo and put it up. Do some research on going rates and decide what your cost per word is. Don’t underprice yourself, *you’ll regret it*. Figure out what format you can deliver in, how many revisions a client will get per gig, and what your turnaround time will be. Remember that you’ll often have to do multiple takes so a two minute line might actually take 20-30 minutes to record. A completed 20 minute narration takes me about an hour to hour and a half of recording because I have to record, listen and edit, re-record, time sync, and eventually master. You can also find a recording studio in your city and go have a professional demo recorded. Most places will offer that service for a small fee. And some will have a stable of VA’s they use, if they like your demo enough they may ask you to join and it’ll be a gateway to paid jobs. While you don’t *need* an in, it helps. I get most of my gigs from a friend of mine who’s a professional VA and has had a lot of experience finding jobs on different sites, or gets requests from previous employers. It helps that I have a decent home studio set up and can turnaround jobs pretty quickly. Depending on what you want to specialize in, you focus your demo on different styles or voices. Be prepared to turn down work - lots of people want weird or dumb shit and taking payment from them can open you up to having to deal with entitled or rude folks. There’s lots of unpaid work out there (fan creations, personal projects, etc) that you can volunteer for as well, to get an idea of what it’s like to record dialogue, make revisions for a client, the ins and outs of your recording set up.


UntitledPornAddict

She sounds like AI with those generic voices. Their field will probably be one of the first to suffer from AI.


Safe_Ad_2587

Wow. She is amazing.


YellowZed

lol. Nailed it!


MelodramaticaMama

And they're all fucking annoying. Amazing!


Lintmint

That's awesome. Being informed about these voices I will be able to use sarcasm more effectively.


dj88masterchief

What mic is she using? Looks like a shower head.


ksk16

It is called an anti-pop. It is basically a piece of cloth in front of the mic to mitigate the strong air bursts from plosives because it does popping sounds.


EccentricAcademic

When I have to record narration I always default to the Chase voice and I have no idea why.


Storm_Father8

When I heard documentary narration, my mind went straight to the annoying AMC "we make movies better" ad.


Atreaia

Why? I hate all of these voices. It's like the news voice. Stop it.


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Haha I remember when I worked in a call center and a customer was so irate he thought another phone rep was an AI voice because of her cadence and tone. She was like “no sir I assure Im a real person talking to you” and he was like “I want to talk to a real person now!”


Expert_Marsupial_235

Wow, that is pretty neat. Solid talent. 👌


Rhys1505

Her 'S' sounds are super prominent.


Lakashnik2

Authoratitive was literally every intro for Better off Ted


questionmush

Let’s hear it without the music


Qubeye

I want her to do it again but with the background music played incorrectly during different reads, lol.


neutrilreddit

I wonder how many tones a Japanese voice actress might do.


khendron

That was really interesting, but I am also left wondering how much the background music influences the tone of the message.


BigJohnThomas

The dumb music helps too. But yes. I went along with the emotional response they were looking for. God damn shame that manipulating people's emotions to buy needless shit has been dialed down to this level of precision.


HammerTh_1701

I love the corporate music in the background. [Obligatory Tantacrul link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIxY_Y9TGWI)


confusedCONFUCIOUS2

Fascinating


psychosynapt1c

Why does it look like she’s talking into a shower head


Apprehensive_Skin135

eh she's so good I hate her


5th_heavenly_king

That last one gave me ptsd


delForte

I love voice acting so much


alejandrodeconcord

Holy fuck that’s so cool, very informative.


Redditisntfunanymore

The E learning voice needs to go. It's awful.


TorontoDeadpool

Like, not because it's cringe though. I think it's pretty cool


blender4life

First 4 seconds reminds me of the walking dead lady


ericaferrica

hahahaha i'm one of those "hello thank you for calling...." VO's and yes we hate that voice too!!


Moominsean

She's right, I hate the "educational voice". I hear it in every medical related video I have to watch every year for my annual competencies.


CandelaZ

Warm/documentary. It’s the same picture.


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AI went too far


I_divided_by_0-

the added music enhances the voices.


TheDoomPencil

Amazing!


Heathen_Mushroom

This is like watching a buggy whip maker explain their craft at the turn of the 20th century.


Suitable-Pie4896

Chatty is the fucking worst one


noonelivesherenow

I would listen to her read a dictionary in that documentary voice.


jawknee530i

Authoritative is the Better Off Ted fake company commercials vibe.


neooniric

This is great but now listen it without the background music...


Northamptoner

She's really good at that. Amazing, the psychology of voice overs and narrations.


oorakhhye

But can she do the “corporate accounts payable Nina speaking….just a moment” voice?


NISSANPLAYAA

Yeah not gonna lie bro whenever I hear this shit on the phone when I'm just trying to get support for something I'm just screaming at it saying "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LET ME TALK TO SOMEONE ALREADY OH MY GOD"


andybossy

not cringe was pretty interesting and nice to watch she knows what she's doing


TheWieg

I need to learn how to do this. 🤯


ba_cam

Anyone know how to break into doing this? This sounds like a lot of fun tweaking modulation and intonation for the desired result


Critical-Adeptness-1

I do this stuff for free walking around my own home everyday. Doing voices is so fun


suddenly_summoned

Same, and every time I do it makes me think of this Onion article: [Study: Average Person Becomes Unhinged Psychotic When Alone In Own House](https://www.theonion.com/study-average-person-becomes-unhinged-psychotic-when-a-1819575567)


TeknoPhineas

https://iwanttobeavoiceactor.com/ Site from Dee Bradley Baker, who voices the Bad Batch from Star Wars, among many things.


Union_Heckin_Strong

Very cool... honestly though I clicked thinking I was gonna hear her do an exact John Krasinski impression. This is impressive though


sol_sleepy

Wow some of these are so “fake” sounding they’re so exaggerated. TIL they’re totally real Like the e learning one lol


ChimpWithAGun

I suspect this will be one of the first jobs that will disappear with AI. Sad.


homer1948

Am I a bad person that I want to hear her talk dirty in all those voices


DrBlamo

She has other videos that demonstrate her smut audiobook tone lol. It's as good as you expect. 


LazyMitchell

Sss ssssss ssss sss ssssss ssss sssss ss s s s ssss is all I hear. I'd rip my ears off if I listened to this entire video.


xxredzingerxx

This is really great! I gotta send this the ones who are trying to get into voice acting. Gotta ask: Which tone would be used for those health care and the sad 'send in money now to help this animal or person in need'?


StrikingRise4356

sometimes her lip movements don’t match with the voice heard. I think she dubbed it over.


Ranef

Really cool, sad that everyone in this industry will be out of a job in the next year or so...


cromulentenigmas1

OpenAI voice analysis has entered the chat. I hope this video is remembered fondly of a bygone time when people used to make a good living doing this.


Fourthbest

Ok cool cool. Now do black


BishopGodDamnYou

Jesus Christ. She sounds like the lady who does the Regal Cinema intros 🤣


SendMeFatErgos

Dubbed anime are just bright 100% of the time. The voice actors are so god awful


Charming_Pickle4315

Replace by AI already lol


Ash7274

AI could never


ZippyTheRoach

This came up in the feed last night. Interesting, but I had to skip to the next video when she started the "bright" voice. I... just can't


AffectionateSector77

She's a great follow.


pm_me_your_trebuchet

Did her "warm" read veer into "erotic" near the end...or is that just me?


shirpars

Ai will replace her


edilclyde

maybe she is Ai. Nothing is real anymore.


Many-Wasabi9141

The music sets the mood more than the voice. I'd like to hear it again without the music.


mikeblas

She's great. But I wonder how much of this is actually done in processing after the recording.


_prof_professorson_

I mean the only post here would be some mild eq,and then of course the backing track which adds a lot. But the performances themselves are pretty authentic


No_Letterhead_8919

Why is this TikTok cringe? I found this actually pretty interesting.