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  @BrandonEarl2828Күн бұрын

  Spot on breakdown of this rare accent…I’m totally behind this!Looking forward to next vids. 👌

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  @nsrounds3 күн бұрын

  I'm from southern Maine. Kittery and York and Eliot. Now my great-grand parents of Eliot spoke with a softer, educated version. Less W's and a deliberate soft ending and lack or "R"s and this circa 1890s as they were so very senior in years. Aunt Hope did say "Ayuh" but as "Hyuh". Hope this helps.

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  @dycorty91827 күн бұрын

  My mama was raised in Lexington and YEP you nailed it! I picked up bits & pieces from her and I didn't even realize until recently!

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  @jesslynn878 күн бұрын

  Your first A is good. O is terrible--Boston and stop should be pronounced exactly the same. There's no "ah" and no Long Island "aw." Both Boston and stop should be pronounced like someone from Connecticut would say "aw." "We heard you're leaving" is much more Kennedy than every day Boston, but it's passable. You've got the back of the mouth difference between Boston and New York down pretty well. Your Sam the man is pretty good. Ricky Don't Lose That Number is pretty good, but you're not getting "turned." Try putting it more at the front of your mouth and adding a tiny bit more R. It's a really tricky accent, and I will say you do a much better job than many I've heard.

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  @narratormatt4 күн бұрын

  Thank you for the merciful tone AND the specifics. So if, I'm reading you right, instead of the short non-diphthong "o" becoming more like an "a" (which is kind of Chicago, now that I think about it) it's more of the General American "o." Thoughts?

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  @kellyb.johnson530011 күн бұрын

  There's nothing new under the sun except the revelation of truth. But I like Brenda's perspective.

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  @narratormatt11 күн бұрын

  Kelly, I looked you up and your work seems really cool. Do you have a homepage we can visit?

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  @Sabine8712 күн бұрын

  I think adjusting the W not to a V but more a wider mouth W will help a lot to make it sound less German. Also having the R more in the front of your mouth and not in the throat is a big thing that is distinct for a dutch accent. Hope this helps. I foubd this video while searching if I could narrate audiobooks while having a slight Dutch accent myself naturally.

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  @narratormatt11 күн бұрын

  If you'd like any accent reduction help, let me know! Meanwhile, I'm testing your recommended method and it kicks ass.

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  @kaylyn22217 күн бұрын

  I grew up in Portsmouth and I lived in NC. These sounds more like some of the dialects I’ve heard in NC.

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  @narratormatt13 күн бұрын

  Has anyone confused one for the other? Sort of like how Australian and South African can get mixed up.

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  @messeduppika53145 күн бұрын

  I kind of agree. I am souther virginian (15 minutes from the border) and I think this more represents a good southern accent then South Virginian. I think our accents have bits of twang but not much of the "awww" or "aahhh"s

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  @nancymccombs377517 күн бұрын

  I love learning new things. Thank you.

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  @NotPaul5917 күн бұрын

  I’m from Tangier. This sounds more like Smith Island’s accent rather than Tangiers. We pronounce “I” with a “w” sounds if you can imagine it. Sounds weird but Smith island is more like what you are demonstrating here.

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  @narratormatt13 күн бұрын

  Huh! Do you have any samples or links from Smith?

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  @NotPaul5912 күн бұрын

  @@narratormatt I’ll see if I can find some. I know of one video that demonstrates it

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  @NotPaul5912 күн бұрын

  @@narratormatt kzread.info/dash/bejne/fGZhsY-clKSflLg.htmlsi=-Ec6FjnTy381CkEz

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  @_sn0wbl00d18 күн бұрын

  Cool!

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  @narratormatt13 күн бұрын

  Thank you! BTW I was checking out your channel and wanted to let you know that Fantastic Mr. Fox is one of my brother's faves. "The Fox rocks!"

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  @AnertakDlanodcm19 күн бұрын

  I’m from western Kentucky. We say our R’s like they live in the back of our throat 😂.

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  @narratormatt13 күн бұрын

  Oh, that's actually a huge tip. Really influences the positioning in the rest of my mouth. I was testing what it's like to to my R's in the front of my mouth by contrast and realized that sends me into Latin and Eastern trills.

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  @midlandindiana173021 күн бұрын

  This all sounds nice! I'd say my accent is a little lighter than the older people around me so it might not sound exactly like mine, but it def sounds like home haha. Idk how much of this is just me or if it's more of a central/northern ky thing, but my /aɪ/s only become /a/s when its followed by a voiced *consonant or no *consonants at all. So i'd say tight with a general american accent (minus the dropped t) but i'd say "tahd" for tide. Ice and "ahz" (eyes). (Edited bc I can't believe I switched vowels and consonants lol)

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  @narratormatt13 күн бұрын

  Oh that's a marvelous tip. Thank you !

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  @talprofs21 күн бұрын

  @narratormat - Great linguistic analysis of the Maltese accent - which, as you say, is quite distinct and separate from the way both Italian and Spanish tend to deal with liquid consonants and vowels. Bravo! (I am half-Maltese.)

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  @narratormatt13 күн бұрын

  Why thank you. Tell me more about "liquid" ? Do you mean that Maltese is more staccato by contrast?

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  @Lagolop22 күн бұрын

  This sounds almost like a cross between Russian and German speaking English.

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  @Ablequela9922 күн бұрын

  I want to sound like gambit because it is very very smooth and slick

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  @novanocturn25 күн бұрын

  Your account guilds are such an amazing tool, and appreciate that you put it out there for others to learn from

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  @narratormatt24 күн бұрын

  Why thank you so much, @novanocturn. It's wonderful that we're all getting something out of this project. How are your projects going?

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  @shortyhalfpint889025 күн бұрын

  Thanks for this.. i'm just starting to play dnd and its homebrew.. and my race's accent is armenian.. idk if i sound like whatyou did but at least im the right direction

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  @narratormatt24 күн бұрын

  That's the goal! How are players responding to your accent?

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  @shortyhalfpint889024 күн бұрын

  @@narratormatt we haven't started yet, I'm just getting my character stuff all good, lol my first try at the accent one of my friends said I sounded like a irish and Welch mixture lol edit: but i'm watching your videos in more detail now

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  @D8794325 күн бұрын

  All I know how to say is “Hey man I’m from Cuba man”.

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  @narratormatt24 күн бұрын

  Huh... in Spain, they would use "tio" as the version of "man." Do the same in Cuba?

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  @trentonbennettVOАй бұрын

  Good lord but you're fun. =) I LOVED doing this!

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  @nancymccombs3775Ай бұрын

  What fun!! Love it!

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Thank you #1 fan, @nancymccombs3775

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  @bentonscrivenerАй бұрын

  One interesting thing that’s pretty unique, is that many of us say “you all” rather than y’all like you’ll hear all over the South.

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Oh wow, what great insight. Anything else along those lines that most of us wouldn't think? My how example is that Mainers say "BANG-goah" rather than "BANG-gur"

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  @bentonscrivenerАй бұрын

  See if any of these are interesting/less common: If you’re giving someone a hard time…making a strong point, even yelling, cussing. You’re giving them “down the road.”

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  @bentonscrivenerАй бұрын

  @@narratormatt to describe how you might fight somebody, you might say: I’m gonna fight him up one side and down the other!”

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  @bentonscrivenerАй бұрын

  You can substitute the fight word for a different f word and it’s a funny line!

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  @bentonscrivenerАй бұрын

  “You all” is much, much slower than “y’all.” But I guess you would have to use “y’all” in any production about the South. 🤔

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  @newfieshamrockАй бұрын

  Hello there,being from Newfoundland i must say i bet its difficult for an outsider to try speak like that for sure..the st.johns crowd have diff accents depending where abouts fhey from too..tons diff newfie accents diff than theres across nfld too..your easiest bet is mimic the irish waterford accent which is what a sin jons acceent is..if you try speak like other parts nfld add a bit of devon england accent in life becomes loife..and me luv or my maid short for a fair maiden not a cleaner..we have irish in town and all over..welsh in cormack area..scots in codoy..french in stevenville crossing..and devon and cornwall in the north mixed with some irish and scots..us northern peninsula people very mixed..so long story short..go with the st.johns /waterford accent..after all they have been twinned as sister citys

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  That's great. And God have mercy on me if I need to do a character from outside St. John's since it's a whole other and varied kettle of fish, eh?

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  @lisabrooks844Ай бұрын

  Central Virginia, Appomattox County: we do drop the "r's" in words. So "rather" would sound like "rath-ah" or "river" would be "riv-ah" . "I'd rath-ah be oatside by the riv-ah " 🤣

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Now does that vary with social class or is it pretty uniform?

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  @lisabrooks844Ай бұрын

  @@narratormatt Hmm, good point. For the most part it seems to be the older Virginians (45+). The younger natives still have this type of accent but not as pronounced.

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  @rsoucy48322 күн бұрын

  I was raise in Danville. They definitely drop the r's. My father's name was Archer but it was only ever pronounced Ahhhcha. I've not lived in Virginia for years and I still can't pronounce author " correctly". It will always be Ahhhtha and same for the name Arthur. It's one in the same for me🤷‍♀️

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  @j.d3804Ай бұрын

  This is fun

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Why thank you!

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  @c.turner4809Ай бұрын

  I uhhh disagree.. lol

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Hit me. What are the giveaways?

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  @Turboy65Ай бұрын

  If I could duplicate the voice of any single other person, it would be Vincent Price. The most perfect pronunciation, with power, precision, and subtlety.

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  @Persian-vt8emАй бұрын

  this is awful lol

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  @70rodalАй бұрын

  Sabotage by the Beasty Boys, 1934.

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  @Disciple-ofChristАй бұрын

  All Kentuckians don't talk the same. I live in Southeast Kentucky & MOST of the accents don't apply to most people around here. 🐑 ✝️🕊️ Edit: I guess some of the older folks had more of a accent (like my, now dead paternal grandparents) but I'm forty & people don't talk like that anymore. I have 3 sons & they don't have the accents you mentioned, either.

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Do you find differences between east and west?

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  @WhenYouveuhАй бұрын

  @@narratormatt I know I wasn't asked but I do have an answer. I find that typically people from the eastern side of Kentucky of a lot more Appalachian influence on their accents. These are usually more comparable to like West Virginian accents. When you move further west it depends on where you are. Counties on the lower western half I feel tend to usually have a more Nashville style to their accent while with north western counties you get some heavy midwestern influence. I've met some people from northwestern Kentucky that have basically a soft midwestern accent instead of a Kentucky accent.

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  @@WhenYouveuh I mean, it seems like the shorthand is that eastern folks don't elongate their vowels, does that sound right?

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  @novanocturnАй бұрын

  Do you have any advice for recording erotic audio scripts? Someone asked me if I would voice some, and I’m learning it’s a very different.

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Eh, first tell me about Erotic. Are they books where the relationship is the cake and sex is the icing? Or are they exclusively about sex?

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  @novanocturnАй бұрын

  @@narratormatt It has a “story” but mostly just graphic sex as the focus. It has Lots of dirty talk and moaning worked into it.

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  @PeytonReese26 күн бұрын

  @@narratormatt Good question, certainly deserving of numerous interesting answers. Let's say ..."sweet" romance is white cake with white frosting, sprinkles optional. "hot" romance is a chocolate chip cookie -- you buy it because you want the cookie and the chips. Erotica is a double chocolate chip cookie -- chocolate in the batter and chocolate chips. You buy it because regular chocolate chip cookies just don't give you a thrill any more. The double chocolate chip cookies still have structure to hold them together. Pornography is chocolate chips held together with chocolate frosting, no batter needed, and if you can swim in a tub full of it, even better!

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  @narratormatt24 күн бұрын

  @@PeytonReese this is brilliant. Fits totally with my understanding of it. Have you considered putting some graphics together and posting this metaphor on your other socials?

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  @narratormatt24 күн бұрын

  @@novanocturn yep, that's Erotica. I suggest varying your pace and tone whenever a) it's obvious that the protagonist knows what they're doing and are building momentum in their encounter (usually narrating faster and faster) then b) when the protagonist is taken by surprise (slow down and enjoy pauses). Let me know how that goes!

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  @novanocturnАй бұрын

  You often make me think bout voice and recording in ways I previously hadn’t.

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  @jaywuvsmeАй бұрын

  Virginia Beach native here and I am not picking up anything that sounds familiar to me. Hampton Roads area accent is different from other areas of VA. VB specifically has its own kind of accent in my opinion. Coastal with a slight southern twang. Growing up I do remember my elders having an accent that was different from my own and anyone from the region that is in their mid to late 60s still has it although it’s slightly faded.

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  @captaincurd2681Ай бұрын

  Laughy = Lovely

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Now are ya saying that lovely is pronounced "laughy"?

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  @ddmmalibuАй бұрын

  thank you±!

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  @portnerlaw3042Ай бұрын

  couldn't, didn't and wouldn't, drop all the letters except first and last but still 2 syllables.

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Oh, I love that. So it would be basically, "Kun'" and "Wun'" yes?

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  @MiaHutchinsonShawАй бұрын

  Thanks!

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  You're most welcome. Were you using it for a project? I'd love to hear

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  @TbrambletАй бұрын

  The way I look at doing a Virginian accent is it's like you're perpetually on the verge of sneezing, idk if that's very perceptive but it helps me lol ALSO this is very helpful, I've been pseudo-accenting for awhile but I haven't looked into the actual specificities of the sounds so it always felt awkward

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  I love the sneezing image... it's actually a similar approach to when I'm doing an impersonation of someone (Nicholas Cage is perpetually bobbing and weaving like a boxing marionette). Are you from Virginia?

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  @TbrambletАй бұрын

  @@narratormatt no but I've met a lot of people with the accent

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  @laurencebahr8214Ай бұрын

  I say how y’all doing

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  @vikingstorm32Ай бұрын

  Wanna go-da-the store? Er no..

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  @narratormattАй бұрын

  Tell me more!

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  @westernkentucky5956Ай бұрын

  You have a nice, deep voice. I can see why you are a narrator!

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  @westernkentucky5956Ай бұрын

  I'd certainly agree with all of this. Well done!

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  @barbroumaya853Ай бұрын

  I feel like you got some of it right. I noticed the word "ran" was more New York. Maybe you can practice better if your poem had more "Philly" words like Water = wooder not wooTer". Quarter when spoken with a Philly accent becomes "Courter". You rushed through your POEM so that people would not notice what you did not quite get correct. I applaud your effort but it was not very good.

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  @jonathanbrown62602 ай бұрын

  What part of VA is he elocuting? I was born and raised in va beach and lived nearly a decade in Ricmond. I'd give him north west, va, maybe

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  @marchebert62082 ай бұрын

  Sorry man, but as a Cajun I have to say you're not even close. I was born and raised in rural South Louisiana in a family that spoke French and English at home.

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  @carol-lynnrossel87002 ай бұрын

  My father and his siblings spoke with the transatlantic accent, and they grew up in three New York City boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island. This was over a century ago. They sounded so regal, though they ended in poverty when their father ran away. However, they had nannies when very young and lived in short lived luxury in Manhattan. Dad sounded like Cary Grant or David Niven and this is probably why, though I grew up on Staten Island, I, blessedly, have never spoken like even relatives on my mother’s side. My aunt rather spoke like Rosalind Russell and always seemed elegant to me, especially when Mom’s side of the family said things like BOYT for BIRD.

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  @andreasstavrinides69802 ай бұрын

  Would you do the same thing for the British commentator Christopher Hitchens?

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  @Legend-442 ай бұрын

  Brilliant, Matt! This was the best tutorial in an accent I have come across in a long time. VERY useful for live and narrative. Though . . . now I am being told to "tone it down," "too real." Ach!, those directors keep pushing us back to clichés! Well, we fight the good fight - and YOU are a true touchstone here. As the Swiss Germans might say: Gracias!

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  @pygmygodeus94502 ай бұрын

  That was fun! Looked up a Maine accent because i’ve been listening to an audiobook set in Maine and doubted that the narrator’s accent was accurate. Sometimes the characters sound like Hollywood’s idea of a Southern or even Appalachian person, other times the accent sounds like a straight up Boston accent…Narrator tried her hand at a Brooklyn accent (i live in Bklyn, so i know what various Bklyn accents sound like), and that too sounded like a Boston accent. After listening to your Maine accent, I now have a better feeling for what the other audiobook narrator ought to have sounded like. (Funny coincidence you’re both audiobook readers.) I especially enjoyed your channeling via the Zep tune!! Bravo! Maybe you could try your hand at Truckin’, by the Dead, preferably with a mismatched accent, maybe even a foreign one. Brixton? Upperclass English? Middle class London?

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  @narratormatt2 ай бұрын

  I've got vids for the latter two but haven't tried Brixton! Truckin' might go perfectly with that.

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  @nancymccombs37752 ай бұрын

  And this is why I toot your horn so much, how you narrate Kris Michaels’ books so successfully.

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  @kristimahaley70562 ай бұрын

  The harder the R the closer you get!

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  @narratormatt2 ай бұрын

  Yes, I'm sensing the same thing... but... does it *ever* become an R-drop for aristocrats?