ejsvoicecast season 2 episode 15

The speaker talks about their recent activities, including taking action classes with their coach, looking for an accent coach, and practicing different accents. They also mention their struggles with audacity training and recording audio while riding a bike. They express their hopes of getting more auditions and discuss concerns about AI technology potentially taking away job opportunities in the entertainment industry. The speaker concludes by asking for feedback and thanking the listeners for joining their podcast. I'm changing who I am. I'm making a new plan. Rearranging my life and I want to get better. Hello, welcome to EJ's voice cast, episode 15. And today's topic is basically what's going on, how things are going, what's happening. So, as I mentioned, I returned from Vegas. That's been like three weeks ago. And since I've taken since then, I've taken a couple of action classes with my coach, Sammy Grant. It looks like she is going to get a teaching gig. Great for her. She's going to pass off to me. Turn me over to some other folks, I guess. Give me some names that I can check out and see who I like to take over as an accent coach. She's going to make some recommendations. So I hope she gets the gig. She really wants it to teaching jobs, something she wants to do. That's great. Everybody should be able to follow their dreams. I'm trying to follow mine, hoping for my big break. So if she gets the gig, like I said, she'll give me a couple of names, two, three, four folks, I guess, who can coach me. She already knows who they are. They're coming verified, vouched for. So I finished my last course today on the Australian accent. So if she gets the gig, she's going to drop me a couple of names, people who can coach me. I've been working on this Australian accent for a bit and it's coming along. I understand where I'm making my mistake and what I need to do to fix them. So it's practice, practice, practice. I did my Australian class today. So next time I shall jump into German, I think. She suggested that I pick an accent that doesn't have an English language foundation. So my choices were our German, French, Spanish or Portuguese. So I think I'm going to go with German. There are others out there that I'm pretty sure I could do, but not really interested in those right now. I shall be given driving back into audacity training. Tried it a few minutes ago, but kept losing track of the class. It's pre-recorded webinar and having it, having to rewind it every couple of minutes because I kept losing my focus. It just drop off. I didn't know what was going on. Just tired. After the third time, I stopped and started writing the script. There are many steps I need to revisit in the first one, but I wanted to tackle the second one so I could build proper templates for various reads. I also need to focus on proper use of the effects in the tool. I'm not sure if I'm using some of them correctly. Also, after using an effect, it seems to lose its settings, even though I use the preset function to retain the settings. I open the tool. I open the tool and everything is set to zero again. That's not what it should be. It should have stayed at what I had it set for. I tried to do some recording on the bike several times, but each time something manages to not go as planned. The first times were the video settings. I overexposed the recording and it looked terrible. The next was audio. I need to go back to the wired mic rather than rely on the wireless one. It picks up way too much wind and motor sounds because the mic is actually under my chin, sticking outside the helmet partially. I could probably Velcro it to the inside, but the heat may mess up the glue on the back of the Velcro and also mess up the inside of my helmet. I'll work something out. No worries there. It's summer here in Japan, so it gets really, really hot. I did get a brand new shirt to wear for riding. Pretty comfortable. It was a little bit cooler on the way home today, but still hot, still sweaty when I got home. Auditions. Once I get my outdated setup the way I want it, I'll be leaning heavily into auditions again. Pickings have actually been pretty slim of late. Maybe one to three pop in my box daily in the last three weeks. Could be just some of vacation time and folks are off during that time. Folks are off. Hopefully it's not AI taking over. Speaking of AI issues, I'm sure you have all heard about AI and it being used to recreate voices of actors, podcasters, video artists, etc. It's a big issue that needs stressing because if AI can be used for this, then lots of folks should have their livelihoods taken away. The fear is that Hollywood will just repurpose the likeness of current and former performers and do what they want and then charge whatever they want. I'm sure studios look at this as a way to increase profits. I asked voices about this as I've seen postings of people to provide their voices for research projects. The posting reads that your voice shall not be used to make profit without your consent and not used to make a profit. Voices told me they set up these contracts so that artists are protected from having their likeness stolen and reused without their consent or compensation. We will just have to keep our eyes open and see what transpires and go from there. So that's the end of this podcast. Yeah, kind of short, not a lot of information. Hopefully there'll be more next time. Hopefully I'll be able to tell you I got an audition. Hope you enjoy my accent. I'm still working on it. You'll probably hear it again in another podcast. As always, feedback subscriptions are welcome. The link is at the bottom of the show notes. If you have advice or suggestions, please share. Thank you for joining me on EJ's voice cast. We'll catch you on the next episode. If you have comments on my accent, please send them in. Let me know what's going on and where I can improve. Thanks. And this is my game to play to claim a brand new name. And I don't lie to you. I'm a bit nervous that I might screw everything up that I've ever done. But what's the point of living if you ain't having fun? I guess I'll try this, try that. Might miss, gotta find what I'm good at. I guess I look here, look there. Over where am I scared? Where am I at? I gotta make it in this life. Whatever makes me happy. Know I'm doing things right. Living in the summer on a goose dance right. We'll find a nightclub for the end of the night. And we all got dreams. We all want things. But what you gon' do for it? How you gon' move for it? What you gon' be? And do you believe we can do it again? But what you gon' do for it? How you gon' move for it? What you gon' be? What you gon' do for it?