I did an audiobook recording and basic montage with my phone, and yes it took months (I did 1 chapter/week, so 36 weeks in total), but I could see my improvement at the end compared to the first chapters, a lot less mess ups to cut, but yeah, as you said, recording an audiobook takes time and dedication.

I am very interested in becoming a voiceover person for children's books. I am electric when it comes to silly voices . I am one who walks around my house speaking outloud excitedly because it helps my everyday be void of the boring stuff. It adds joy to my day. I love speaking on a microphone and love to speak to young children in my family or whoever is around in all types of voices. I love to sing, but I am not that talented when it comes to singing. It's just fun and brings happiness to my life when I need it the most. Here the thing...I live in Southwest Arkansas/Northeast Texas onn the Texas /Arkansas border in a twin city. My southern accent is not subtle. When speaking to people in other cities or states, I always hear the surprise on the other end of the phone. It's kind of the same thing when you are spaking with someone on the phone and you are smiling while dloing so. It makes a difference in how your voice comes across ot the other person. I am told how "neat" my voice sounds due to my strong accent or how enjoyable it is to hear my spoken words. I am not overly impressed by this accent because I am the one speaking. I am very used to the way I sound, of course! Is there a niche for such an accent? And, if not...is there a way I can work on my sound? I feel like if I can change my voice to sound like an animal or a child, etc. then, surely I can learn to do a lot more with my voice. What is your take on this? I would love to hear it. Thank You!

Great video for a newbie, thanx!!

You could easily have been discussing the journey of becoming an educator in this video. So many people think you just walk in and "teach." WRONG. As if! As a teacher for nearly 25 years before losing my job, I thought it might be fun and genuinely satisfying to narrate children's books part time. I LOVED reading out loud to my students and always made an effort to use the tone, inflection, and affect of the characters while reading stories to help make them come alive. It mattered to them and it mattered to me. But they could "see" me doing the reading. With book narration, it's an entirely different challenge because your voice is there with no image. So essentially your voice embodies the character for your listeners in its entirety. That's no small feat. I also appreciate you sharing that it's a marathon, not a sprint. I'm just starting to learn about narration and had no idea the level of technical prowess involved. It's a bit intimidating. But I'm going to continue watching your videos and explore the possibility of taking on this challenge, armed with the knowledge that - as with every pursuit in life - mastery takes time and there is absolutely no such thing as a free ride. Thanks so much for this reality check.

Extremely helpful! Thank you, liked & subscribed

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Hi Angela, I took a 12 week VO course here in Canada, (some past training as well) some on going private coaching, completed my animation demo, and still working on putting a commercial demo together. I just came across your channel, and I am super interested in audio book narration. I have a problem. My financial situation is not great, and I am living in the same house as my 91 year old mother ( I am her caregiver) This house is like a tin box, and she has her tv on ALL DAY. I am not sure how to create a soundproof space on the cheap to record auditions, let alone finding work in this field. Can you direct me anywhere for some kind of soundproofing? I also took a course in Audacity, (I have a good mic, boom arm, and a Scarlet Solo interface,) which I am still struggling with (noise floor etc...) There is so much more to this than I initially thought. Thanks for your amazing information!!

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This video was super helpful and informative. I’m just starting with ACX. I’ve done VO for some marketing videos, but I’m an amateur actor and vocalist wanna get into audiobooks ASAP. So glad I found your channel! Subbed. 😊

Great advice!

Great video. Just a idea that might make your editing faster. Can't you just take the Room Tone, put it on a separate track? That way, it will cover all those gaps. If not, no worries.

Thank you very much for this, what is inflection?

Great analysis, thank you! I need some advice: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). What's the best way to send them to Binance?

Thank you Angela and Dwight. :) Always learn so much and also got to ring in the New Year with lots of laughter. Happy New Year to all!

My focus for 2025 is to devote time daily to learning and growing in voice over. This will include becoming more comfortable and competent with Audacity and also honing voice techniques that will make me more marketable and versatile. Another focus will be to complete my Fiverr and ACX profiles and start to gain experience on both sites and do work that clients really like. :) Scary, but very exciting!

Okay, don't crush myself because I don't measure up to David Attenborough right out of the gate. Got it. Lol.

Did you start as a 1099 independent contractor, or have you set up as an LLC or schedule C? I need some guidance on how to start out from the business perspective.

Thankyou so much for this info.

Have you encountered times when an author decided an audiobook was not selling because of the narrator and decided to redo the book, ie scrap it and start again with someone new.

Oh my gosh this is so much work. Thank you for being generous with your time and skills. This has been a retirement job in the back of my mind for a long time. I’m an elementary school teacher and reading aloud has been half my career. Your videos have been great for letting me know what I don’t know.

I am not new to audio editing as a former musician, DJ, audio/video broadcaster with web radio stations, and VO remixer for the last 30 years. I am now going public with my audio editing service, have been digging into new technical information, and it was suggested that I also look into ACX editing and requirements. Your video was a good detailed review for me understand what type of content I should expect to receive from narrators before starting to work on their tracks so I can verify if it meets the ACX content and file standards before cleaning up and editing their work so there is no unnecessary rework. Thank you for the detailed breakdown.

Great info, thanks for covering the process and the technical details.

I already have a podcast on Spotify, could you give just 5 min of your time and listen to one of my chapters and tell me where to start? I do all the voices for every character to include narrating. I even add the sound effects and music. Please and thank you 🙏

This definitely helps because I started making my profile for ACX and I really want to get this started, so your advice definitely helps with my confidence. Thank you!

Interesting the adverts attached were both for AI VO...

How you speak, the pauses, no word fillers speaks volumes - thank you!

Thanks, this is one of the best advises I have ever received.

5:30 those first 2 though

Thank you for the insight, information, and gold nuggets even as simple as 1, 2, 3, Go ! 😊 Just a guy watching videos on the topic for the past couple days. Thank you for your calming nature. ✌

I know I watched a video you made that talked about this but I can't find it. Can you remind me what site you use to get demo scripts or audio books to reherse with for free without worrying about copyright? Not sure if I'm phrasing that correct, but I remember something along those lines.

I know this is an old video, but how do you get Audition to show anything lower than -60Db in the levels section?

Hello i am just a newbie to this audiobook work just created a channel to read fantasy novels i will start uploading from next year will this channel help me in my journey of reading online novels any suggestion from seinors pls.

Thanks so much for breaking this down. I am just doing the research at this point, so this was golden. Two thumbs up.

Thank you. Has your advice about this subject changed? Have you posted an updated video?

Is that recording program your own or on the acx?

Minutes after I submitted my very first audition I received a message from a random person stating he assisted with audio quality ect ect... I didn't respond, but it seems they are on watch or have some way of spotting the newbies. But how 🤔

"Snug as a bug in a rug." This made me smile! My mother said "cute as a bug" a lot when I was growing up.

Great video, thanks

Where would I post samples btw? on ACX on Instagram? Please let me know thanks for the advice / how to

Thanks trying to get started and figure out how to audition

Thank you so much for all of the info on the items I need to start. I'm just taking one step at a time by knowing what I need and where to find them

Hello again, I have a question, should I use free software at first? You used Adobe Audition, what compares that is free? or do you recommend I do the Adobe Audition trial?

Thanks for being real. I'm going go for it! I'm searching for a creative outlet.

This video is great! I am new to this and sure I'll be back to this very video multiple times to get my sample ready for submission. Thanks a lot and have a great day.

Dr Glass can train you to speak with a better voice. Optimum pitch level

This is so helpful! Especially on commercial rights

Another really good program is Davinci Resolve. Fairlight has a lot of great tools. If you have the paid studio version, you get even more tools than the free version.

Every time!😂

The customer is always right in matters of taste

Wonderful advice!