You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 69.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

Voiceactingmastery.com is your place to learn both the skills and the mindset you need to become a professional voice actor, even if you're just getting started.

In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks and insider information

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.

If you'd like to know more about me, feel free to check out my personal website at www.com.

This is the second part of my interview with my good friend, the incredibly talented voice director, Andrea Toyas.

Andrea works for Blizzard Entertainment, and has voice directed such high-profile titles as World of Warcraft Cataclysm and Diablo 3.

We first met while working on Diablo 3, where I played the voice of the male wizard.

We've admired each other's work ever since.

In the last episode, Andrea discussed how she started out as a production assistant at a video game company,

and then worked her way up through the ranks.

She edited dialogue, then became a recording engineer, and eventually a voice director.

She's worked on almost every aspect of the process of recording voice actors from the ground up,

which gives her an invaluable perspective on what video game companies are looking for in performers.

In this episode, Andrea shares with me what skills, abilities, and mindset she

looks for when casting a voice actor. If you've ever wanted to know what goes through the

head of someone who decides which voice actor to hire for a project, you're about to get the

inside scoop from Andrea. And now, the feature segment.

So, speaking of voice actors coming to audition for you, when a voice actor comes to audition

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