Description: Information and resources for any narrator, male or female, seeking to advance a career in voice performance. Producers, casting agents, students, or potential clients seeking narrators will find information relating to hiring a narrator, as well as technical information about narration and other voice related topics. Actors will find information about employment in voiceover recording, and professional information about narration and voice talent in general.
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Narration is not just the reading of words aloud. Professional narration is a process of translation. The most obvious example is the way it translates written text into speech. This changes the way the audience receives the message, since listening uses different parts of the brain than reading.
More than that, the narrator interprets each part of speech contained in the text, and alters the vocal delivery to increase or decrease emphasis at appropriate places. As a result, the listener's experience can be vastly difference from that of the reader, even if the words do not change at all.
Compared to other creatures, human beings have complex vocal mechanisms, which allow us great subtlety and nuance by way of the spoken word. However, the advent of modern media created the need for specialists in this field.