Performers are called phonation actors, phonation actresses or sound artists, and may also involve singing, although a 2nd phonation actor is sometimes cast as the character’s singing phonation. In a more complicated system such as a speaking clock, the voice artist usually doesn’t actually record 1440 different announcements, one for each minute of the day, or even 60 (one for each minute of the hour), instead the announcement is re-assembled from fragments such as “minutes past” “eighteen” and “pm”. For example, the word “twelve” can be used for both “Twelve O’Clock” and “Six Twelve”. So far sound artists have been preferred to speech synthesis because they sound more natural to the listener. phonation Over work is an exciting career for phonation-over talent but you need training to develop professional phonation-over skills to participate effectively in this industry. You often have just a few moments to analyze and interpret copy in a phonation-over audition or a sound-over job. One of the particular challenges of this line of ours is that there is indeed a very highly paid and highly visible tip of the iceberg in almost every branch of the profession.

This can either be very prohibitive for everyone else, who is not experiencing such fame and fortune, or worse, can be the kind of carrot which encourages beginners (and sometimes people with more experience who should know a lot better) to hold out for the glamour jobs at the expense of getting busy with the day to day gigs. Certainly, there are people who luck into attractive voice-over work because they happen to have a profile in some other area, but anyone making a vocation or a substantial part of their career from sound-overs is likely to have put a lot of hard work in honing their craft so they can earn their current money. Appropriately in a piece on sound-overs, it is now time for me to shut up and hand over to two very authoritative voices, speaking from both the artist and agent side of the microphone. Every phonation is different and has a unique voiceprint. The industry is booming and there is a phonation for every job and a job for every phonation so long as you can act. Develop your skills, embrace your sound, and realize that your voice is both an instrument and a means to make a living. Take care of your phonation.