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Your milky smooth skin is so captivating ❤ Sighs…..anyways, I can’t stand audiobooks anymore. I feel like my soul is being drained from my body with these LONG audiobooks I narrated on ACX for peanuts. I’m doing commercials and short form narration moving forward, unless someone with an audiobook pays me at or near GVAA rates.

I am so excited I found this series and you! It has been a dream of mine to be a narrator and voice actor. I’m finally getting started with the help of your videos. Thank you!

I am SO glad I found your channel. I'm heading over to your website to take your course. You offered so much in your free course that I was blown away. My sister has been encouraging me to do this work, but I've been so afraid to try that I just gave up. Finding you is more than a gift. You are such an amazing instructor. You have given me the courage to take the plunge. In the past, I wrote a few stories that I read to my children and my mom (she has since passed), and they kept saying that I should publish the stories. Of course, I didn't listen. I am now going to give it my best shot. Thank you for creating this course. Thank you for your generosity and encouragement! I have subscribed.

Thank you for your videos! I'm hoping someone can answer my question--the rights holder and I agreed that I would upload as I produce each section so that she could monitor and make sure she was satisfied with the files. However, she just messaged me and said she is concerned not to see any progress. HELP. Can she not see the files I have uploaded so far??? TIA!

If your 15 minute check is several chapters, how do you upload that as one file?

Thank you so much for this amazing lesson, I just have a question regarding the last /ɑ•ʊ / sound, for me the first /ɑ•/ sound is more like that front vowel as in cat rather that in car, what are your thoughts about that? Thank you for uploading these great videos

Thank you so much for the tips and tricks, very helpful!

I don't have a problem with my Yeti hissing. I do ASMR content regularly and it my voice sounds very clear and audible.

How do you produce a royalty free audiobook on Gutenberg? I can't figure out how to.

I just want to thank you for providing such detailed and thorough content. As someone just getting into the Fiverr ecosystem, this has proven to be invaluable. Thanks!!!

Hey Bailey! Love the content, thanks for sharing all the nuggets of info! Curious if yo can speak any more to the timed audio sync process? I can't find any tutorials. Any resources to check out? Thanks so much!!

I finished all the lessons (part 1-11) not too long ago, but I know I still have a long way to go. I'll be going back to Part 1 and do all the lessons all over again. I learned a lot from you. I just wanted to say THANK YOU. Please take care and keep up the great work.

Hey hun thank you so much for all your help and support you are a natural teacher you made the process so easy . Do you have a website by any chance would love to check it out .💖

This lesson cleared up my long-held question about wh sound. I hear more h when I listen to American old radio dramas, but I don't think I hear h much while watching today's movies or dramas. You always offer something to learn. I appreciate it.

It's amazing to realize how very southern I still do sound, despite being told by my family that I don't even sound Texan anymore. These little distinctions are so wild

Thanks again for this great lesson. I realized that I was closing my mouth too much when I pronounced /u/ in /o•ʊ / and /ɑ•ʊ /, thanks to your instructions. The way you break down the sounds and your clear pronunciation really help me. Thank you.

Another very useful lesson! Thanks very much! I repeated this Part 5 quite a few times, and now I have a pretty good idea about how you can pronounce the R Diphthongs and I think I have improved a lot. But I still feel awkward here and there. Now I let myself go on to Part 6, but I will come back to this chapter later.

Your videos on ACX projects is so friggin helpful. I'm totally new--and I already got 3 gigs! So I'm of course panicking. So THANK GOD for your videos! So practical with the screen recordings and such. Wow.

I finished the first round of practicing Part 2~4. It took me about a month. Now I'm going over the lessons one more time before going to Part 5. All your lessons are so helpful. For example, the way you teach /i:/ helped me a lot. Most teachers tell us to stretch our mouth all the way in a big smile for this sound. I thought it was an easy way, but I was not 100 % convinced because when you try to say the word "she", it's very difficult or feels awkward with a stretched mouth because of the "sh" right before the /i:/. But you teach us here that we don't really make a big smile to pronounce /i:/. Thanks to you, now I know it's in the arched tongue. Many other tips you give us are very useful. Thank you very much!

Thank you very much for your videos. I'm a non-native English speaker and I suppose your videos are made for native speakers of English who aspire to be professionals. But I can learn so much from your videos. I love the way you teach. You really show us how you specifically position your tongue and lips. I've been practicing Part 2 ~ this part 4 every day, one week for each part. I know they are helping me so much because I feel some difference now when I speak English. But I have some questions about some of the words you teach in this lesson. The "o" in hotel, mobile, obese, romantic, nomad, and most of the o sounds in the sentences here are diphthong /ou/, aren't they? I'd appreciate it if you could enlighten me on this. Thanks again for your great lessons.

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Thank you so much for your brilliantly clear and concise tutorials. Much appreciated Bailey. You are amazingly talented! ❤️

Thank you for this video as I am just starting out on my own altho I did do VO back in the day! Will go over to your webinar.

Hello How can you help me to speak English like you my dear please?❤

Thanks

lol, I have people tell me since I was 18 that I should do narration. So I just created an account. Gonna try this.

Excellent series! After recording a book from Gutenberg, how would we become the rights holder or what to “sell the book on Amazon”? Do we need a 2nd “Rights holder” profile or what?

In this revision example where he just needs a little more time, is there any action you need to take or are you just waiting for him to click “accept”. Do you use any particular service for your backing tracks?

Thank you so much, what you do is priceless.

Hello Bailey Varness. I've been watching your videos for almost a year now about "Become an Audio Book Narrator". I am a newbie ENG-FR Voice actor and I learned and applied your teachings. Thank you for the great work you are doing!🙂

Is there a rule of thumb with music? Like if I went to the Library of Congress & found some archived music from 100 years ago, is it safe to use for commercial purposes? 🤔

Love your content. I recorded my first audiobook ("AI For All" if anyone is interested!) last month and followed a lot of your advice in navigating the process. Had my demos put together professionally, but am looking at trying to put together a video demo myself and so it's good to have a resource like your channel!

This was SO helpful! I've been doing audiobook narrations and have been wanting to get going with commercial voiceovers but creating demos is what has honestly been holding me back. Thank you!

How do we know how the end user is going to use the recording to be able to charge extras? Or are we on the honor system?

So glad to see you're back with another great series! Looking forward to what you have to say, doing my first book with ACX now and you've been a massive help with landing it!

Welcome back and thanks for this. We already know the content will be great!

I'm so happy you're back in TH-cam! Your acx videos helped me get started and I've now recorded 30 books! I'm so excited to get started in Fiverr

We love you! Thank you for this course!

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BLESS YOU FOR BEING HERE!!!

A great video, and I improvised it by using an app called BIGVU teleprompter, and following your suggestion, combine with audacity, makes it easy for me. A Big Thank you

Hello Bailey...I enjoyed your ACX training. A quick question- Gutenberg is used for creating audio samples that will appear in the profile section- am I correct? Secondly, the audio sample you will work on is the actual audition you are picking from ACX for review by the author. Am I correct? I am q total newbie - a mature person wanting to try it out after retirement. Thank you,

Bailey, you are a rock star! Well, I guess you're a vo star, but you get me! Thanks so very much for doing this and sharing so freely what you know. Your cheerful and positive presentation makes it seem possible for everyone to do this. I've been watching this for years and have finally gotten it together to follow your instructions, but even after so long, this is still so helpful. It's funny that the number of producers went from 37,000 in your vid to more than 1 million. I wonder if you'd still say us newbies can still make this work. Regardless, you pump us up so much, I feel it can't hurt to try! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I want to watch and listen to everything you produce. You are awesome!

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This video was very informative! I am very new to narrating and would like to try it out. For someone like me who has no experience being of a narrator, how should I describe myself in the “Professional Summary“ description? Should I be honest of what is my occupation? Or should I be honest on how I am not a professional narrator/amateur?

Hey, I am using a Mac and they don’t have levelator for the newer Mac OS, do you know of an alternative? I have been using the ACX check tool from audacity and then using macros to set the levels for ACX but the levelator seems so much simpler. I used it when I was using a windows laptop and it was great, so I am hoping that there is an update for the Mac version or an alternative. Thanks, I appreciate your videos!!

PS you are just magnificent!

Have you found a replacement for Levelator to work on Mac Ventura? 2022

This is so helpful, thank you!! I have been watching your videos and they are so helpful! Your editing techniques are a game changer for me. My studio is in my closet with blankets on all the walls and the ceiling. I have been struggling trying to find my voice and get my first gig on ACX, but I am going to stick with it, thanks to your wonderful and positive attitude! Thanks!!!

Thank you so much for the videos they were extremely helpful I was wondering if I can have your email if that is something you feel comfortable sharing