Voix Off Féminine Pro

From Voice to Voice Talent

How I became a Voice Over, Voice Over Actress?

I did not ask myself the question: since the age of 7,

I claimed that I would be "Radio Host" in a Radio Station.

How it became a JOB??

I LEARNT ! A pretty voice is not enough, and even, can serve: You are told "You have a pretty voice, you should do Voices" and boom! A website, a microphone and you're done... NO! Voiceover is a profession that can be learned! I first learned to become a radio presenter in a local radio station in Cannes. The "blanks" on the air, the Bafouillages are not forgiving, it took me a month to adapt to these strange things that are a microphone, a feedback, a level, a gain; Then to tame my mouth, yes yes, my mouth! When we speak, the consonants fuse like knives but we do not realize it. Behind a microphone, not the same! The “Ps” turn into sound bombs, the “Ms” into “moaps”, the “S” into whistles and the “Fs” into “frouppppffff”. And even in a good headset, you don't necessarily hear them, just happy to talk into the microphone!

After a month, the instinct worked and I improved my speech.

How was I trained and who trained me?

Arrived at Radio Monte Carlo Monaco (selected out of 7000 candidates), I understood that I knew nothing! The Sound Engineers at RMC were real vocation killers! In fact, they weren't going over anything, NOTHING!

Every week, we were entitled to 3 hours of technical training in aerial simulation, in a studio in the basement: and believe me! We learn to speak with them!

We learn to "suffocate the P", return the M", "absorb the F" and "stuck the S"!

You learn to read a 1.30 minute text in 30 seconds, without stammering, without pronunciation errors, without swallowing a single word! What use will you tell me? Sometimes we were short on the intro, late to launch the newspaper, too short to announce the weather… So we had to go fast… VERY fast!

How to start as Radio Host and become a Voice Talent?

Naturally! On air, we often had to read live advertisements.

The client paid less, but the result had to be there. And tell yourself that if you miss his ad, he won't want to pay, if he doesn't want to pay, the accountant will get angry!

In addition, our dear DA (Director) listened to us wherever he was!

And always had a phone on hand (without cellphone) to let you know that

“we were going to talk about it again”…

And believe me, you don't want to "talk about it" with your DA!

Practicing numerous trainings, live exercises,

you tame your voice, you take it wherever you want!

One day, after years, with this irreplaceable experience and this permanent

happiness to do "a good job", I created my personal recording studio

(discover it HERE), and every day, I thank these Sound Engineers out peer,

the DA who hired me (Patrice Pouilloux, if you hear me),

and this crazy atmosphere that I knew where we only liked one thing: to be the best!

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