i need an american male accent for a custom sample please help !!!!!
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Posted on Aug 04, 2008 01:43 pm
darren1979
Darren Shamen
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Aug 04, 2008 01:44 pm but americans don't have accents, only wacky brits do. :-)
what kind of accent, northern accent like the movie "Fargo", or southern/redneck kinda accent, east coast attitude accent (such as demonstrated in the movie "My Cousin Vinnie")?
Aug 04, 2008 01:48 pm ...and don't double post...
darren1979Darren ShamenInactive
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Aug 04, 2008 01:48 pm kinda a hollywood accent. i need somewon to be a movie producer for me and just say a few words with some enthusiasm
darren1979Darren ShamenInactive
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Aug 04, 2008 01:48 pm sorry, i wasnt sure were i could get anyones attention
Aug 04, 2008 01:49 pm wasn't aware hollywood had an accent...wait for Herb, he does voice stuff, but I think he costs money...
darren1979Darren ShamenInactive
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Aug 04, 2008 01:51 pm Deleted By darren1979
Aug 04, 2008 01:54 pm As far as Herb is concerned, no, not joking, he does voiceovers for a living (or, money anyway)...I am sure lots of folks would be willing to help for free though, just hold out for a bit...I would, but my voice sucks.
darren1979Darren ShamenInactive
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Aug 04, 2008 01:58 pm i hope so. i usually get my stuff from another website called the freesound project, but im finding ppl are willing to help less and less these days. and as i say, i do it volentary for the kids. so i need all the help i can get lol.
darren1979Darren ShamenInactive
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Aug 04, 2008 02:01 pm so, is this the right forum to post sample requsts or would i get more success in another part of the forums here ?
zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
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Aug 04, 2008 02:39 pm This is the right forum... but all posts get fed into a 'community forum' of the last 50 or so posts... so posting in each forum spams that one... and thats the one where most people go to answer current questons...
I believe the term for that voice is called "puking" ie... 'The Price is Right' voice... lots of local radio DJ's do it... annoying as hell... :)
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
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Aug 04, 2008 02:56 pm Heck I'll do it, I did a pretty good boxing announcer for a project awhile back. Send me the script\phrases and I can just try a few different stylings.
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Aug 04, 2008 03:24 pm Email me with what you have and what you want. I'll take a crack at it.
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Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Aug 04, 2008 07:20 pm We try.
Thanx to the Cpt and Herb.
Hey, that sounds like a new musical duet happening there. :-)
Aug 04, 2008 07:24 pm Tripps can play the Tennille part. He has better legs.
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Aug 04, 2008 07:25 pm [quote]but americans don't have accents, only wacky brits do. :-)
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Heyyyyyy!!!!!!!
Actually, Americans do have accents. There are four:
1. New England
2. Southern
3. Mid-Atlantic - Trying to do an "English Accent" a la Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
4. Everybody Else
The Fargo thing is just Canadian, really.
Hehehehehehehe....
I know, I know...a special hell....
Aug 04, 2008 07:45 pm I read somewhere once that they have some voice meter to study accents and vocal patterns and that the midwest USA has the least "accent" of anywhere...whatever that meant...
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Aug 05, 2008 11:35 am I once read a book on American history where they were saying that the '49ers (not the dreadful NFL version) would have talked in a manner closer to Yosemite Sam than anything else. I probably would not be able to keep a straight face.
Aug 05, 2008 12:26 pm
Eye ma War Ning Yu!
I don't know about the only four accents in America. Because you can tell a person from Brooklyn, as opposed from New England.
And a person from Georgia, as from Texas.
I don't know, I think there is a lot more then 4.
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
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Aug 05, 2008 01:10 pm What in tarnation!?!?
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Aug 05, 2008 09:20 pm Nice Rob.
I kinda agree with what you are saying as well. There are several different versions of a MN accent as well. Northern MN has a pretty funky Scandinavian type accent. Sometimes it sounds very Canadian as dB stated earlier.
Southern MN has a much plainer tone to it.
zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
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Aug 05, 2008 09:49 pm Yeah, Michigan alone probably had more than four...
paraphrased:
Yooper
Detroit
Regular Michigander (huh...that actually passes spellcheck in firefox)
'Thumb' which usually has crazy phrases that nobody understands "Who you from back home." aka "Whats your maiden name?" etc.
...and there's the unending battle between 'creek' and 'crick'...
Of course...only god knows how the folks on North Manitou talk... if they talk...
After spending time in the military it was a hobby to try and guess peoples home states from their accent and SSN... (first three digits get higher as you go west)
BeerHunterwww.TheLondonProject.caMember
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Aug 06, 2008 01:35 am Hey! What's wrong with a little Canadian eh? We can grunt with the best o' em.
TallChapAnswer:On a good day, lipstick.Member
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Aug 06, 2008 01:56 pm Pah, y'all sound alike....
Nah, I'm sticking with four. All those New Englanders are pretty unintelligible and just don't speak properly.
North Dakota/Minnesota etc.=Canadian, anyways
Canadian=Scottish, anyways
Scottish=unintelligible
QED
Did I miss anyone? I am an equal opportunity offender.
Anyone not offended can write to someone else and complain....
Bwahahahaha!!!!
JK: I'm not that shallow and ethnocentric, I just like rattling cages.
Anyway, my wife's an American. If I could understand her (Massachussetts), I'd ask her what she thought...
Aug 06, 2008 02:17 pm Remember the TV commercials where the help lines had a separate number for Nebraska? It was because many corporations had their phone centers stationed in Nebraska. The reason was that the Midwestern "accent" is the most intelligible.
Nowadays, well...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
Aug 06, 2008 02:19 pm That is very interesting, Herb...
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Aug 06, 2008 04:56 pm TC, you're killing me over here. I was having a similar conversation from my friend from Atlanta a couple weeks ago. He said the bay area has a very distinct accent, though it's tough to catch sometimes because so many people move here from everywhere else. But amongst people who grew up here, he said it's distinct if subtle. He said it's in the Rs and how we pronounce our Rs hard. EveR vs. Eva or Evah.
I once tried having a conversation with this irish cat at a local bar. I literally couldn't understand what the hell he was talking about. Sounded like he was grumbling out of his throat similar to tazmanian devil.
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
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Aug 06, 2008 05:17 pm Alaskan accent? I have no idea if we have one, I would assume so.
Also, I am setting my equipment back up tonight for personal use, I will record this unless herb already filled your needs with his perfect voiceover voice *pfftt*.
Aug 06, 2008 05:41 pm nobody on northern exposure did, did they?
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
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Aug 06, 2008 06:06 pm Hah, I used to love that show. A little slice of heaven :)
Aug 06, 2008 06:09 pm Quote:
perfect voiceover voice *pfftt*
I'm guessing Will Lyman was too expensive.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
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Aug 06, 2008 07:49 pm BH, you know I would never diss the Canadian being. I'm half French Canadian anyway, so that might be a bad thing.
