How to Develop Voice Over Chops by Susan Berkley Ever heard of the term "chops"? The dictionary defines chops as the technical skill with which a jazz or rock musician performs. But I think it applies to voice over too. So what are voice over chops and how can we...

Emergency Help for an Inarticulate Spouse By Susan Berkley VoiceCoach subscriber Mary writes: "My husband has an extremely poor vocabulary and a 70's dialect. I find his constant pronunciation errors embarrassing, for him as well as myself. I often worry about what...

Should Voice Over Beginners "Burn The Boats"? By Susan Berkley There's some really bad advice going around about changing careers from a day job you hate to a voice over career you'll love and I want to put a stop to it right now. The advice is: if you want to really...

How to Maintain the "Morning Voice" By Susan Berkley A VoiceCoach subscriber asks: "What is the reason for the deeper/nicer morning voice and how could I maintain it?" Susan Berkley: This man likes the deeper sound quality of his morning voice because he is a...

Great Voice Over Business Gifts: My Favorite Ways To Show Appreciation By Susan Berkley The season of giving is now officially in full swing. If you're a voice over beginner, keep this email. It'll come in handy as your business grows. I've got some great ideas for...

Help for a Tight Throat By Susan Berkley Subscriber writes: I do many full-day trainings and it seems that quite often somewhere between 11am-12pm my throat tightens up - never in the 9am-11am slot and never in the afternoon. I drink plenty of warm water when I'm...

Your #1 Voice Acting Skill By Susan Berkley There are a lot of moving parts to a great voice over performance (I've identified 15 in all) but if you do nothing else, you must get the first one right. It's job one. What is it? The #1 voice acting skill is relationship....

Shaky Voice? Here's Help By Susan Berkley Subscriber writes: "How do you calm a shaky voice if it creeps up on you mid-speech?" SUSAN: Funny you should ask. When we are ambushed by a shaky voice mid-speech it is because there is something going on in our inner life,...

What do great voice over agents really want? By Susan Berkley A little bit of background before we get into today's Inside Voice Over lesson If you've been following me for awhile you know that one of the things I teach is that the traditional model of trying to find...