Comments on: Finding a Conversational Voice in Video Tutorials

By: Voice overs

Voice overs — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:24:32 +0000

Excellent suggestions from Scott. People think sounding conversational is easy, when in fact it’s often harder than reading copy with an announcers approach. Being comfortable in front of the mic and allowing yourself to talk one-to-one with an imagined audience takes a lot of practice and skill, which is why people pay professional voice talent for their services.

best of luck with your tutorials…

chris

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Natural and safe search engine optimization — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:59:49 +0000

Well I too have been working as a customer service executive for few years now and we too were voice trained initially. and it really did help my confidence and many many other factors which is essential to deal with client calls

By: best savings account

best savings account — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:45:09 +0000

Interesting article. I’ve been looking around your blog and most of your articles are really awesome. Speaking of the voice training I was involved in few and I have to tell you, if you are doing job concerned with your voice, you definitely need some training to get the real voice in you.

By: Stacy @ Local Florists

Stacy @ Local Florists — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:56:52 +0000

Nice article. Before getting into the floral business I was involved in various activities with my voice in my workplace which was a hospital. Calls, announcements etc. Back then we didn’t have a choice to go to voice training and stuff. But I so wish i did. Which would have allowed me to do my job exceptionally well.

By: Trade Credit

Trade Credit — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:55:57 +0000

Great post. as Emily I’ve been using my voice for various activities around my work as I make huge load of phone calls, interviews and etc. but I really needed to get some voice training and these hints definitively will be helpful. Appreciate the work. Cheers

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By: Emily Cotlier

Emily Cotlier — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:57:58 +0000

This is a great post. Over the past two years, my voice has been integral to my tech writing work. Phone interviews with customers for case studies, conference calls with team members in different countries, conversations with people who have English as a second language, presentations at conferences, the list goes on. Collaborators who’ve never seen my face know me only by my email and my voice. I’ve looked into local voice training, so I really appreciate these hints.

By: Finding the voice that you need by Communications from DMN

Finding the voice that you need by Communications from DMN — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:00:42 +0000

[...] blog entry that discussed a voice-over workshop that he’s taking. You can read more about it here. Sounds like an interesting course. I wonder if there’s anything like it in Toronto (TO [...]

By: Fox Cole

Fox Cole — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:40:17 +0000

Scott might be a terrific teacher, but I’ll probably never know, due to content design failure.

I never buy any service or product from someone who doesn’t tell me up front how much it costs. I wouldn’t pull out a credit card to buy a shirt without knowing how much I should expect to pay (is it $30 or $300?); yet on Mr. Shurian’s website, I am expected to fill out a sign-up form without knowing how much the workshops cost, where to find that information, or where the web form will go next. Would it submit charges right away, or go to a verification page first?

Or, would it show me a list of workshop dates and locations, and prices? If so, why should I have to give personal details to get that information? If I decided against the workshop, I would have given personal information to someone I don’t know, have no relationship with, and can’t trust to destroy my data or keep it confidential.

Content design failure.

Mr. Shurian’s website lost a prospect because the prospect couldn’t find a key piece of information and didn’t want to fill out a web form without it, and had no assurance of what would be done (or perhaps, not done) with personal data. Glowing testimonials just are not strong enough to outshine those problems. My fuzzies might be a bit warmer, but that’s all.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:59:29 +0000

Tom–

Glad to hear that the lessons with Scott are working out. He’s a terrific teacher and I put what he taught me into practice with every episode.