Robin Howard

Voice over artist, audio narration Stretch those vocal organs, extract the phoneme, push the inflection, catch the aspiration …. Linguistics, Theatre, Speech modulation, Speech Therapy, Speech-making, Teach, Leading bands, Journalism , aural Exams… To the Sermon, voice coaching, dramatic stories… I’ve enjoyed significant moments in the English Classroom: shaping ideas, delivering robust results EAL…EFL….across languages…crossing cultural boundaries…. Celebrate diversity, looking for common ground.. a wealth of resources Divide and conquer with many an accent, a style, a pace and a variation or inflection… Speak to persuade, inform, to cajole, to complain, to describe, to argue, , advise, present, sell, exchange , hypothesize..negotiate, evaluate, conclude, discuss My instrument has been my voice.. … to encapsulate that moment , that dramatic monologue , that emphasis; that particular transaction...that dramatic monologue. Quick learner…let’s negotiate on style and tone, prosodic features to launch a product, a service, an idea, a narrative Let’s iron out the ambiguity… If a baby cannot drink cold milk, it should be boiled! For sale: a piano belonging to a lady with an oak case and carved legs…. Eliza intones in Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion: “I don’t wanna talk grammar: I wanna talk like a laaaaaaa….dy” Clicks of Xhosa…to the glottal stops of cockney…rolling rs of US, dropped ‘hs’ of Oxon, … impeccable RP…What do you require? Creative voice…voice memorable…slogan…jingle …