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Hail and well met MÃ¥ns aka sPAm of Sweden
Good to have you here.
A friend of mine does Crafting YouTube and adds a story to the end of them. They get pretty good feedback on the stories.

 

They work in needlecraft mainly; Knitting, Crochet and things I really don't understand.

 

Nice job Spam. Reminded me of little of Edgar Allen Poe and had a voice similar to what I've read in Dostoyevsky. Hard to assess the writing from an audio file, but it did have that slow creeping horror feel to it.

 

Hey MÃ¥ns! If you would care for some advice and thoughts, open the spoiler below.

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As a native Swede myself, I thought I'd forward some resources for you. Your pronounciation is, as is usual to us non natives, a blend of all the English speaking influences we come across. As such, we are very prone to mixing American/British/Australian accents--sometimes to the point where we pronounce the same word differently in the same sentence.

HOW TO DO A BRITISH ACCENT CONVINCINGLY (1) FOR AMERICAN ACTORS (Acting Coach NYC) - YouTube This is the first of a three part series, spanning half an hour, that quickly goes through basic differences between international/American and Brenglish. If anything, it's a good refresh of knowledge.

To a greater or less extent we'll be stuck with our own native linguistic melodies, and therefore still sound non native no matter the amount of practice. However, I think it may be worth brushing up on, sticking to, and trying our best to mimic either American or British English continuously.

Lastly, I'd recommend learning an audio editing software to edit your audio files some more before publishing. Removing background hissing and other things (A faint click before each line, is that a mouseclick á la push-to-talk/record?). I suggest learning Audacity, which is a very powerful and free audio editing software. This will let you spend a short time editing to produce noticably cleaner audio

 

Definitely not! Just asked for the consistency Neither of us will ever sound native, but we can do our best to have consistency in our pronounciation, and lean towards an accent rather than mixing it up. Non native voices have their charm aswell and it can even be an added bonus to some books.