You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery episode number 20.

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to help you portray characters in animation, video games, and beyond. And now here's your host,

voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

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This is the second part of my interview with my fellow voice actor and accent expert, J.B. Blanc.

In this episode, we discuss the differences

between having a regional dialect in your speech and dealing with an actual speech impediment.

We also discuss how your accent is a survival technique that you developed when you were young,

and why for some people can feel emotionally threatening to try and adopt a new accent.

I think you'll find it fascinating.

And now, the feature segment.

Now, we don't want to talk about the dialect I speak in as a speech impediment.

It is not. There is no wrong way for you to naturally speak.

Speech impediment is a very different set of circumstances. Okay. How does that work?

Well, you know, we can all have speech impediments. When I was in my year at Rada, there were people

from all over the country, and there were a couple of Americans, too. Some people had Eshes that splashed, and there were a couple of Americans too. Some people had

s's that splashed and there's a very specific problem. They're saying that s with the

side of their tongues instead of the front of their tongues and you have to really teach them

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