Peppersnoodles93 wrote:Beth,
Altamont is PL OK. You did very good in your American accent! I can only image how hard that would be! It sounded a little southreny/slang, which was a good voice for this character.
I'm very relieved to hear that. I struggled a lot with this - it is much easier for me to modify my normal accent to sound slightly British than to attempt an American accent. I listened to lots of YouTube videos on the Irish-Chicago accent, but found I couldn't do it at all. So I fell back on my "generic American" accent and crossed my fingers that it would sound OK!
Whew! Now that's over, I'll go back to my usual accent training videos and do the rest of my Holmes parts in my UK accent - that'll be a relief. I can only do one accent at a time or I lose track. Unlike my sister, who was once in a play which required her to switch back and forth every scene!
My normal accent is not a broad Aussie one anyway, and when I record I try to make my voice a little more precise with the consonants, so I'm half-way to sounding British already - I can see why your friend was confused, particularly in that very old-style language of the Bible recording! I just need to modify the very Aussie "o" and "i" sounds, particularly in words like "night" and "nice" or it comes out sound like "noight" and "noice". I train my ear by listening to Cori's Watson files sometimes - I covet her "Home Counties" accent!
