Accent Elimination or Accent Acquisition

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Accent Elimination

Were you born in Brooklyn? Or the Deep South? Or perhaps even Mexico or Germany? If you have an obvious accent or American regionalism it may be holding you back from booking some of the jobs you would like. Most casting professionals want to ensure that their audience will connect and identify with the voice talent they are hearing, and prefer someone who might sound just like your neighbor, regardless of where the spot will air. A Boston accent might be just fine for a local Massachusetts piece but inappropriate for a high paying national gig. Our resident accent specialist Linda Jones is here to help you deliver in the coveted Standard American, neutral accent .

Accent Acquisition

Are you looking to nail that authentic and natural sounding southern twang, romantic French or Swahili character? Linda can help with that too. If you need a quick brush-up on an accent for an upcoming job or audition or you would like to be fully immersed in the exciting world of American and foreign dialects, her expertise will prove to be invaluable. Why try to get by with just a “passable” Swedish when she can quickly have you sounding like a Stockholm native? Improve your character and animation reads, expand your commercial repertoire, or start expanding into foreign markets.

Linda Jones

Voice Coach, and Accent Acquisition and Elimination Expert

specializes in: accent and dialect elimination, accent and dialect acquisition

location: NY studio and offers tele-training

Linda has been coaching actor voices for the last 20 years, and is thrilled to be part of the Edge team.

With a background in theatre, she has coached voice/speech and dialects for stage, film and voiceover across the country, from Chicago to San Francisco to NYC, as well as working privately with students on speech improvement and accent reduction. She was the resident speech and dialect coach for Crowded Fire – a critically acclaimed, nationally recognized theatre company in San Francisco (and was even given the title of "Voiceographer" for their award-winning premiere of Erik Ehn's "Maid!").

An award-winning performer in her own right, she performed recently in... "Double Vision" for the NYC Fringe, garnering great reviews and a top-10 "Best of the Fringe" extended run. She has a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College, studied v/o at Edge Studios (!) and is a founding member of NYC"s HoNkBarK! Productions – with whom she performs in an ongoing, seasonal cabaret at the Duplex NYC.

Oh, and! - she's currently training for her fourth NYC Marathon.

Hear Linda's commercial demo.  Hear Linda's narration demo.

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