You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 113.

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 up my personal website at www.crispinfreeman.com.

In this episode, I want to address a common misconception about voice acting,

one that often causes a lot of anxiety and self-doubt in new and aspiring voice actors.

There's a widespread belief that in order to truly be successful as a voice actor,

you need to be able to perform dozens, if not hundreds, of different voices.

A common question I hear from first-timers is,

how do I learn to change my voice more?

Or, how do I expand my range of characters?

Everyone seems to want to play a large number of radically different sounding characters,

and it's seen as a particular

badge of honor if no one can recognize that it's you playing those characters. On one hand,

it's easy to understand why it might seem really important to be this kind of vocal chameleon.

After all, you hear about it a lot. Often the voice actors that get the most media acclaim

are those who have the ability to change the sound of their voice so radically

that it's hard to tell it's the same person playing different characters.

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