How voice-over modulation is performed by professional voice talents.

Let's Understand the art of Voice Modulation

Everyone wants to perform as an actor ,but do you know that your voice has the potential to portray a specific character or multiple characters with some inputs provided according to the emotions?

Voice modulation is the art of changing the tone, pitch and inflexion of your voice to convey a particular emotion or message. It is the most crucial skill for actors, voice actors, public speakers and anyone who wants to communicate effectively

Here are some wonderful tips that will help you understand how to perform better voice modulation.

• Practice breathing exercises or learn how to control your breathing while speaking.
• Focus on the pitch and the right emotion according to the need of performance.

How to portray Angry Man or woman's Character

If you have to show an aggresssion ,a powerfull personality ; your voice tends to become deep and you will put effort into your vocal chords. And the best way to use diaphgram muscle that will add more depth in your voice.

You don't put extra pressure on your throat. It takes time to develop aggressive emotions. Here the idea is to show a charge, so you don't need to shout furiously. The Breathing pattern will be normal

Efforts Required: Yes , a little force is needed.

How to express Sadness or How an upset character will react thru his or her voice ?

For performing sad characters thru your voice, the speed of speech will be reduced , It will not be in continous flow,also you have to knob down your energy to add dullness to the voice.

A sad person speaks slowly with interruption.

Efforts Required: No need for forceful breathing

How to speak like a Joyful person.

It is quite obvious as you all know that when we are excited, happy and feel good we always tend to speak loud, with lots of energy, and there is a throw that comes from your voice.

However, We need to take care of abrupt shoutness in the emotions. Happiness means a feeling of affection so we need to make our speech balanced.

Efforts Required: A medium force of breath is required.

Narrations for documentary films

Narration is a form of presentation, so the voice should sound presentable, it should not be recorded in a casual tone.

One has to make a specific pattern of speech, like if a narrator has started his/her read and takes a pause after three words, and then another 5 words and finishes the sentence with the next 1 word.

It becomes a reading pattern of the narrator as explained below with an audition script.

Our story begins (4 words), in the annals of history(5 words),where the first spark of (5 words), ingenuity(1 word)

Gave rise to the (4 words), wheel, printing press, and steam Engine (5 words),But it was in the 20th Century ...(5 words) that-a-revolution (one word)

The Narrator can pick up any pattern of reading that will become the narrator's style of reading in the above example we have used a pattern to read our script.

If you get the chance to read a script as a narrator, first of all, mark the script according to your style of reading, where to pause, and how many words should be read in a specific pattern.

Gaming Voices

Did you notice that in the gameplay, the style of voice-over is very dramatic and presentable? And at times a shout is noticed by the characters in the game which is not quite common in other types of voice-overs.

How you will perform in Gaming voiceovers.

• Dramatic tone
• exaggerated
• voice effects with forceful breathing, for example, Ouch, aah, ohh, ohh
• Short sentences with excitement. Let's go, Hey! listen to me, and the classic one is "Game Over"

In-flight or Phone recording

This is a form of announcement. I found it very easy to perform a style of recording.

A trick of recording a public announcement is,

One has to read very softly, welcoming with a cheerful greeting. tempo should be slow with calmness. Most of the time female voices are used in public announcements.

In some scenarios, male voices are also used.

I hope you will find this article useful, and inspiring for your next voice-over read or performance. If you have any queries or you want to share your thoughts.

Please don't hesitate to comment. Your input is most welcome.

All the best and Good Luck to you!