I had a wild argument in a discord a few days ago and i'm looking for a more broad discussion about this topic. Here is the conversation. Basically, I watched a fan-made dragon ball dub video on youtube, and found that the voice actor for Goku was one of those people with a neutral American accent whom has trouble pronouncing "th" and would say words like "anover" and "wiv" instead of another or with. To me personally, this heavily degrades the impact and seriousness of any line effected by this speech impediment. I am obviously aware that many other accents around the world do this exact thing on purpose, such as a cockney british accent ("oi bruv") and that is not what i'm referring to at all in this conversation. As you can see in the original discord discussion, the user who responded to me claims that if a voice actor has a speech impediment, that just means the character being acted for canonically has a speech impediment. To me, this is dumb. I mean absolutely no disrespect or judgement to people who do suffer from speech impediments, but my main point of contention is that, as a small-time voice actor myself, enunciation is 75% of what goes into a good line read, along with emotion and cadence. I did go to college for an English degree and have studied linguistics both in and out of college, and I can add that there is no common vernacular in the United States that speaks like this, and it is at least extremely likely that this speech pattern is a speech impediment, slurring the "th" phoneme. Again, i'm not trying to get political and say that if you have some speech problems, you cannot be a voice actor. All i'm saying is that it is distracting or otherwise laughable when line reads like that make to the final production, and I would rather an additional take with more careful enunciation. The person I argued with was very disrespectful and prone to ad hominem, so I did my best to exit the argument peacefully, although he did finish off with a strawman and direct insult. After this, I posted on my own youtube channel here a poll asking my audience what they thought about some of this. I was very surprised to see that the general consensus was that I was wrong, so i'm taking it one step further to a community like ourselves that are specifically interested in the art of voice acting. So please, respectfully, tell me what you guys think!

TL;DR: Does being unable to enunciate phonemes regularly according to the vernacular and accent being acted out effect the quality of your voice acting, yes or no?

This is a terrible attempt at an American accent. This is all

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Hi guys!

I’m going to start do a Skies of Arcadia-Fandub for fun, potentially the whole-game and thought there’d bound to be some folks that would like to get involved on here! (Fun free project no pay)

I will of course need lads and lasses of a whole range up to fit the amazing cast so please share this far and wide with friends and fans alike!

Please private message me on here if you want to take part and I will forward you the link to our discord server where I will be hosting the audition details!

(Note this is just for fun but please do have a nice clear microphone for recording!)

Hi everyone.

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I'd like to share a sample of voice acting with you. I looked for group rules, but (happily) found none.

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The male character who speaks in the beginning of this clip is the voice actor I'd like feedback on. Thanks for your time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcHnVKr75i8

I need voice actors for my open-world game! If you'd like to help, please contact me in a private chat or on Discord at Zaiko#8446, and I'll share some details about the game. I won't be able to pay, but I'll give you credit in the game.

I started today an animation and I want to find some free voice actors.

I am OK if youre beginner, if its your first time. I am fine. If youre male or female doesnt matter since I need both male and female voice acting.

I said I prefer if you do it for free, but maybe I can scrap some money and do a cashapp payment, but really I would prefer if it was free since I m doing an animation and I am poor.

In any case its NSFW, if youre curious about it I got a script, plus all finished characters and Im in the stage of blocking, that will take a while.

approximately 4 minutes of animation. 76 shots. 5 characters. 3 locations. If you want to, you can do the female or male voice, or do sounds. whatever, I need basically everything I can get for free on reddit, thanks. Contact me via private message and I give you the info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgaSr2TtnM4

This is a compilation of some of the worst voice acting in gaming

https://youtu.be/wy4314-Ezbo