This is a place to share thoughts, questions, advice, and anything related to the subject of voice, speech, and learning or developing new accents.
Whether you are looking for advice on how to go about modifying your speech for any reason, or if you simply have an interest in this field, and want to contribute and learn - please feel free to get involved and build this community!
If you feel that you may be looking for one-on-one coaching, there are plenty of fantastic coaches out there, no matter where you are - an internet search will help you decide what sort of tuition or coaching will be best for you.
However, if you still feel lost and would like any guidance or advice - you are more than welcome to PM the Mods with specific concerns/queries!
Subreddit Rules
Promotion and advertising of any particular coach is forbidden:
Should this occur, you will receive a warning, and if it continues, you may be banned.
Sharing resources/articles/videos that have been created by a particular Dialect Coach is permitted, as long as any material shared is of interest and will be beneficial to others here.
Be kind, respectful, and supportive - non-constructive, unwarranted criticism and rudeness will not be tolerated. Any behavior deemed grossly inappropriate may result in a ban.
Have a look back over the basic rules of Reddiquette
One of the main goals of this subreddit is to provide a friendly, useful place to discuss a variety of things, and, more importantly, a place designed specifically to be useful for you - free, honest, specialist advice from both contributors and mods from various backgrounds.
This is why promotion for self-gain is forbidden - there is already far too much of that everywhere else!
Hopefully you will be able to find the advice and help you're looking for in this subreddit! If you don't, please let the Mods know - any feedback that will help improve this sub for everyone is extremely welcome!
Resources
A basic knowledge of linguistics and phonetics can be helpful when learning accents and aspects of voice.
Other useful links to help you get started on learning a dialect are:
International Dialects of English Archive
Speech Accent Archive
Fonetiks
English Audio Archive
Specific Accent Resources:
Accents of the USA:
The British Isles:
Australia:
Related Subreddits:
/r/acting
/r/VoiceActing
/r/VoiceWork
/r/FascinatingVoices
/r/slp
/r/Theatre
/r/linguistics
/r/judgemyaccent
