You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery episode number 21.

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This is the third and final segment of my interview with fellow voice actor and accent expert,

J.B. Blanc. blanc in this episode we conclude our

discussion by talking about what someone can do to work on an accent by themselves jb's favorite

resource online for researching accents as well as how to contact j b to get individual coaching from him

i hope you enjoy and now the feature segment. So I know that you say

that ideally someone should get a coach who can work with them privately. Yeah. And I want to talk

about that. But is there anything that someone can do before getting a coach? Is there anything they can do on their own? Because clearly, I mean, you learned a lot of this stuff without a coach. I did. I learned all of it without a coach. And, you know, listen, I'm very lucky. I was blessed with a very strong ear. But once it also came out of necessity, like I said, once I realized that my casting was not

going to be the blonde hair, blue-eyed Brit, even in England, you know, I would get a lot more

American parts than I would British. It was very interesting. Funny, for me, I got a lot more

British parts when I was in America than American parts. Ain't that interesting, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. But then again, background, education, the way you speak naturally, you know, I can understand, you know, I get mistaken for Australian all the time because Americans don't, they have wayward ears.

Also, it's difficult for Americans, and I'm not, I don't mean to be pejorative or prejudiced or, but you've got a very big country here.

And the accents will change in brackets of 500 miles or 300 miles as opposed to 10 or 20 in England.

Yeah.

So people really don't have the same sense of dialects unless it's really obvious.

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