Tanya Austin

Education

About me

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Short description of my voice:
Media voice, confident, clear, informative, grounded, warm, neutral, luxurious, sensual, authoritative, professional, versatile, upbeat, sensitive, comedic, heartfelt, serious.

Full spectrum of range from young to older characters. Non regional natural.

Able to diversify into accent and tone.
Additional skills:
Entrusted by editors to deliver reliably including breathing, inflection, tone and emphasis for briefs and ease. 

Story telling
Audio broadcast
Radio broadcast
Documentary narration
National narration
Industrial narration commercial brand commercials and business
Animation voice over
Movie trailers
Audiobooks narration
Podcasting
E Learning / education narration
International video
Live events voice
News reading
Reading bulletins
Presenting
Reporting local news
Linguistics
Writing copy. Proof reading copy. Article organisation

BBC News reading autocue course in London. Basic Radio Skills Course in Suffolk with ICR FM.

Knowledge and ability to follow OfCom Guidelines and Compliance having worked in advertising and within corporate financial services. Some media law. Listening and customer service and being reliable I pride myself on. Easy to work with. Detailed. Punctual.

A multi lingual professional with broadcast experience.

Speech and voice specialty and a diverse range / full spectrum in tone and accents and emphasis.

I have a love of the spoken word, narration and international languages and am trained in speech, voice, theatre, autocue.

You may recognise my voice from a variety of BBC Radio Suffolk broadcasts as well as news-reading at Sound On Talking Newspaper, Ipswich Community Radio for sponsorship announcements, and TNF Soundings - various articles, story, need, info and biography narration.

Professionally trained and experience in theatre, tv, walk on, feature, ads, film, corporate, autocue news-reading for tv, radio broadcasts,

Vocal l training, breathing, inflection, emphasis, linguistics, music and corporates.. My range can cover a wide variety of tones and accents for a diversity of briefs, audiences and demographics per my profile.

Raised in London and Essex in my formative years I am well travelled and have honed my world knowledge in both creative and strategic companies.

I look forward to invitations for auditions.
Industry awards:
For Stage
Referees:
TNF Soundings - Heather Bolton, Editor
Sound On Ipswich Talking Newspaper: Chris Dix, News coordinator and technical controller
ICRFM - Nick Challenger-Kabay, Station manager
BBC Radio Suffolk - @journojon Jon Wright
Additional information:
Full UK Passport
Clear understanding of client relationship management, audience, message, brand.

Home Studio

Audacity 3.0.2, Broadcast quality professional level microphone V360 USB, Cleanfeed, Zoom, Skype

Skills

Voice Style	Announcer, Artistic, Authoritative, Bubbly, Charismatic, Deep, Empathic, Energetic, Friendly, Fun, Glamorous, Happy, Husky, Informative, Light, Luxurious / Smooth, Natural, Reassuring, Rich, Soft, Sophisticated, Street, Versatile, Warm, Youthful
Voice Age	Adult, Senior, Teen, Young adult
Languages Spoken	English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish
Accents/Dialects	Australian, English - Cockney, English - England East (East Anglia, Cambridge, Hertfordshire), English - England North East (Tyneside, Geordie), English - England North West (Liverpool, Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire), English - Essex, English - General, English - London, French (Standard International), German, Irish, New York, Northern Irish, Russian, Scottish, Southern American, Spanish (International Spanish) Acento Neutro, Standard American, Welsh, Yiddish