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Seven Hundred Audiobooks In, Julia Whelan Still Starts Every One With a Map of Who Talks to Whom
Julia Whelan has narrated 700 audiobooks. Her prep, her stamina rules and her case for narrator royalties, in her own words.
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Snap, Pause, Go Again: How New Voice Actors Edit Their First Raw Recording
You've recorded your first long script and now there's a forty minute file full of stumbles, coughs and re-reads waiting for you. Here's how working voice actors and audio engineers say to handle mistakes as you record, what to do with room tone and breaths, and how much clean-up is too much.
Nobody tells beginners that the reading is only half the job. Once the session ends, someone has to turn the raw recording into a clean file a client can drop straight into a video, a course or an audiobook. When you work from home, that someone is you.
Dallas voice actor Caroline Turner Cole sets the bar in a guide for the training company Such A Voice: "every voice-over actor should be proficient enough to edit at least 15 minutes of audio to a professional standard." That sounds like a lot when you're starting out. It gets much easier with a few habits you build while you're still in the booth.
