Who am I?
Dear reader,
Everyone has an origin story.
Mine began at 10 years old, on long weekend drives listening to audiobooks on repeat. Head still buzzing with Martin Jarvis’ and Stephen Fry’s incredible narrations, I imitated them until I knew entire stories by heart, and started telling them myself. Fast forward to today, and you join me in my home studio, voicing new and fascinating adventures in this universe and beyond.
Now with a decade of narration and editing experience across audiobooks of many genres, including the Audie Awards Finalist “Heir” by Sabaa Tahir, bestsellers ‘Nexus’ by Yuval Noah Harari and ‘Age of Vice’ by Deepti Kapoor, and Homer’s epic ‘Iliad’. The learning never stops, and neither do I.
Alongside the voice, my childhood fascination with Earth and Space led me to Imperial College London; a Geophysics BSc and Science Media Production MSc. Today, this training makes academic and technical scripts a pleasure to work with, as I can maximise clarity for the listener by quickly understanding the material deeply myself.
As an editor, I spent the years after university making audio and video documentaries for TV, radio and online, moving on to creating immersive audiobooks and editing full-length novels for worldwide release.
Much was born of my music exploits - I started editing to make song covers, which led to me performing as a professional singer on stage, which encouraged me to develop my own original writing. Suffice to say, if your project has got sound, I can be around!
You can hear plenty of my voice on this site, take a tour around my studio or follow my recent research and musings in my blog. And if you want to fast-track your own production skills, I love mentoring new (or experienced) creators to help them turn their dream projects into reality.
Until we can meet in person or work together, I wish you the very best!
from
Vidish
Nice to meet you!
The adventures of voice: blog
How I prepare for an audiobook
Find out the must-haves
Does the author have a strong idea for what a character sounds like? Or is there an important twist that I should have in mind as I prepare, like Alan Rickman did when playing Severus Snape? These questions help embed key principles as I read through the book and get grounded.
Read it once, read it well
I read the text closely, imagining and voicing characters along the way, and making specific notes on narration flow or pronunciations. Then ask any further questions - it’s all to help do justice to the author’s vision.
Organise the character voices
On occasion, there are so many characters (e.g. The Iliad) that I need to systematically plan which voices are the gruffest or lightest, most accented or neutral, and where all the others land across that range! The choices are always made based on the book’s description or the story.
Good habits leading up to recording
Plenty of water well in advance (the day before as well as during), a bit of discipline on diet (no pizza or chocolate while recording), and ensure I warm up the voice in terms of range, strength and articulation before sessions.
You can find out more about the equipment I use on the Studio page!
