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Voice coach Laura Carroll shares her top tips on how to learn an accent There’s no quick way to learn an accent. Like any skill, it’s developed through training, practice and feedback, but once perfected, it will open up a whole new world for your voice work. Commercials, video games, audiobooks, narration – all of […]

Voice experts share their top tips for caring for your voice and unlocking its true potential for voice over work Voice overs are an exciting and potentially lucrative opportunity for actors. However, thanks to the surplus of A-list celebrities being cast in voice roles for their ‘star power’, there’s an untrue expectation that voice work […]

Practical exercises from Nina Zendejas, Head of Voice at Italia Conti (MT), for practising character voices, Received Pronunciation and General American accents. In this episode of The Spotlight Podcast we talk to Nina Zendejas, an international voice coach specialising in accent and dialect, and native to the United States. Currently working as the Head of […]

How do you nail an accent with limited time to prepare? This is the podcast to answer your accent qualms, featuring Josh Mathieson, a voice and accent coach and director who is the Head of Voice and Co-Vice Principal at theMTA, a voice teacher at the Independent Centre for Actor Training (ICAT) and a Voice and Acting Tutor at The […]

All things accent related with William Conacher, dialect coach on The Crown, Peaky Blinders, Happy Valley, Dunkirk, The Reader and more… Accents have different entry points for me. Sometimes it’s the rhythm and melody, or sometimes it’s vowel and consonant changes… I believe learning an accent is much more akin to learning dance steps than […]

What you need to know about mastering your next accent challenge… At our recent Liverpool Open House, accent and voice coach Nic Redman gave members some great one to one tips! We spoke to her after the sessions to get her tips on accent and voice work, so that you too can work towards mastering another […]