Introduction Are you narrating a fantasy epic with characters from every corner of the map, or has a casting director just asked, "Can you do that in a Belfast accent?"... has panic set in!? Accents are one of the most useful tools a voice actor can have. You don't need a 'good ear' you were born with. You need a method. This is the lesson I teach my private students, and you get it for free! Yay! Seven steps that take you from "I can sort of hear it" to an accent a native sp

By the end of this article, you'll know how to write down words and sentences using IPA, and how to use it to write out different accents.

The RP accent is the 'posh' accent of England. When the world thinks of a 'Posh British Chap', this is the accent they are thinking of. There is the Contemporary RP accent, a more relaxed and modern RP, and the Conservative RP accent, which the Royal family used to speak and you can hear in old films and TV shows. Once you have this down, you can practice dropping some of the 'T's and 'H's; this will relax the accent towards an Estuary Accent (though there are still some diff

Cockney is a dialect mainly spoken in London and surrounding areas, particularly by Londoners with working-class and lower-middle-class...