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title: "My STC Summit Proceedings paper on voiceover techniques (Voiceover)"
date: 2010-04-07
description: "Voiceover techniques 1.1 Finding a Conversational Voice in Video Tutorials 1.2 The Problem with Speaking..."
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# My STC Summit Proceedings paper on voiceover techniques (Voiceover)

1. [1.1 Finding a Conversational Voice in Video Tutorials](https://idratherbewriting.com/2008/11/14/finding-a-conversational-voice-in-video-tutorials/)
2. [1.2 The Problem with Speaking Conversationally in Video Tutorials](https://idratherbewriting.com/2008/11/27/the-problem-with-speaking-conversationally/)
3. [1.3 Finding an acoustic environment (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/finding-an-acoustic-environment-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio-series/)
4. [1.4 Sounding natural (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/08/2-sounding-natural-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio-series/)
5. [1.5 Avoiding a sense of rambling (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/09/3-avoiding-a-sense-of-rambling-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio-series/)
6. [1.6 Smiling while you narrate (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/11/5-smiling-while-you-narrate-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio-series/)
7. [1.6 Avoiding plosives and breathing noises (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/10/4-avoiding-plosives-and-breathing-noises-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio/)
8. [1.8 Avoiding phlegm in your throat with voiceovers (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/12/6-avoiding-phlegm-in-your-throat-with-voiceovers-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio-series/)
9. [1.9 Fixing Fumbled Sentences](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/17/7-fixing-fumbled-sentences-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio/)
10. [2.0 Adding inflection (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/23/8-inflection-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio/)
11. [2.1 Recording with the right microphone (Voiceover techniques)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/25/9-recording-with-the-right-microphone-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio/)
12. [2.2 Breathing correctly (Voiceover)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/03/26/10-breathing-correctly-developing-a-personal-voice-in-audio/)
13. 2.3 → My STC Summit Proceedings paper on voiceover techniques (Voiceover)
14. [2.4 Podcast: Ten Voiceover Techniques (PodcampSLC)](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/04/11/podcampslc-10-voiceover-techniques-podcast/)
15. [2.5 The Perfect Voice -- Professional or Authentic?](https://idratherbewriting.com/2010/12/07/the-perfect-voice/)
16. [2.6 Imperfect content and the difficulty of writing video scripts](https://idratherbewriting.com/2013/11/04/imperfect-content-and-the-difficulty-of-writing-video-scripts/)
17. [2.7 Slides and recording for "Perfecting the audio narration in instructional video" at Info Dev World](https://idratherbewriting.com/2014/10/23/slides-and-recording-for-perfecting-the-audio-narration-in-instructional-videos-at-info-dev-world/)

When you present at the [STC Summit](http://conference.stc.org/), you're supposed to submit a proceedings paper describing your presentation. Given that only a fraction of my followers are members of the STC, and an even smaller fraction are attending the Summit, I'm providing my proceedings paper here: ["Developing a Personal Voiceover in Audio"](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/2010/04/Proceedings_Writeup_for_Developing_a_Personal_Voice_in_Audio.pdf) (PDF). (It's allowed under the STC copyright agreement.)

As you know, I wrote about this topic at length on my blog through a series of posts on voiceover techniques. I had about 10,000 words overall throughout the posts. In this proceedings paper, I mostly used the material from these blog posts, but I reduced the length in half. I also implemented some of the feedback from the comments (thank you, by the way).

It turns out that consolidating individual blog posts into a longer essay works well, as I was able to condense it all in just a few hours. Based on this experience, I'm going to write more series posts. Look for an announcement about my upcoming series tomorrow.