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Hayley Richards
Voice Talent - Voice Seeker
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 Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007, 15:10 (GMT) Post subject: New feature - distinction between accent & language |
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A great new feature I think for voice123 would be this:
Where one can say "I can also speak...French", it would be good if another option was I can do a French accent for English words, but I can't speak anything more than 'Bonjour' for example.
To put it shortly, a distinction between an accent & an abilty to converse in another language.
I was looking for a Bulgarian voice and both talents could only do the accent, but not actually speak the language.
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Joe J Thomas
Voice Talent
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| Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007, 15:31 (GMT) Post subject: |
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That's a great idea Hayley.
I often run into the same issue. I have a variety of dialects/accents in my range, but only speak a few words of each language (although I'm learning Japanese... I think I'm learning Japanese... I really think so...)
How about it V123 gang? Can we implement this one?
After all, you've already got multiple varieties of English (American, British, NZ, etc).
My vote is for this one!,
Joe J Thomas
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Thomas C. Gass
Voice Talent
Joined: 11 May 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007, 01:25 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | To put it shortly, a distinction between an accent & an abilty to converse in another language |
Hayley, that's really a great idea!
Here in Switzerland we have 5 different languages spoken in our small country (hey guys, would you even find it on the map, Switzerland, not Sweden  ))
That's: German, Swiss-German, Italian, French and Roman. For us VO it's very important to tell our clients what language we're recording in (that's what we call the "target language", what languages we can fluently speak in order to communicate during a recording session ('cause it might be the client is french or italian or english speaking), and the "accents" we can do. (That's actually also part of the FAQ on my homepage).
Usually you have one target language only (well, we here in fact do have people that grew up speaking two languages... but anyway, we're mad over here And even if I speak rather fluently English, French, Italian and Dutch I would *never* dare making recordings in these languages (except the client wants that foreign accent in his recording)
So I would suggest for voice123 to go even one step further:
- target language
- conversation languages
- "accents"
How about that?
Thomas
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Amy Snively
Voice Talent
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007, 03:35 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| Brief tangent--Thomas: I LOVE your dialect demo! You're wonderful! What a super talent! |
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Joe J Thomas
Voice Talent
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007, 15:02 (GMT) Post subject: |
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| Amy Snively wrote: | | Brief tangent--Thomas: I LOVE your dialect demo! You're wonderful! What a super talent! |
I'll second that tangent - Very cool dialects.
I don't speak German, but I could easily identify each area...
Excellent job!,
Joe J Thomas
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Thomas C. Gass
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| Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007, 19:20 (GMT) Post subject: |
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Amy, Joe, thanks a lot for your generous feedback (blushing blushing) 
Well, hopefully clients will also find my demos on voice123
Anyway, I'm looking forward to exchange thoughts, ideas and infos about our wonderful profession here with all of you pros!
Thomas
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