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. When we finally reached our destination, my head was still buzzing with Martin Jarvis’ and Stephen Fry’s incredible narrations, and I imitated them until I knew entire stories by heart. 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 classic ‘Iliad’. I’m still always excited to join a new project.
Apart from audiobooks, my childhood fascination with space and the Earth led me to Imperial College London; a Geophysics BSc and Science Media Production MSc. This training makes narrating academic or technical audio scripts today much more manageable. During the years after university I was making audio and video documentaries for TV, radio and online, as well as working professionally as a singer, photographer and teacher.
You can hear plenty of my voice on this site, or even take a tour around my home studio. If you want to fast-track your own production skills, I love mentoring new (and experienced) creators to help them turn their dream projects into reality. And if you just want to feel better about your day, jump to the bottom of the page.
Until we can meet in person or work together, I wish you the very best!
from
Vidish
Meet the voice
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 late on that I should have in mind as I prepare? These questions help embed key principles as I first read through the book.
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.
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