Let’s hear the voice of voice actors! Exploring the role of voice actors in the process of dubbing translation by Ebru Çavuşoğlu

Subjects: “…dubbing; voice actors; dubbing translators; the dubbing translation process; voicing; challenges of voicing…”
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Emotion capture: Vocal performances by children in the computer-animated film by Christopher Holliday

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The Essence of 2.5-Dimensional Musicals? Sakura Wars and Theater Adaptations of Anime by Shiro Yoshioka

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The consumption of popular culture products among Japanese language learners at Universiti Teknologi Mara by Ahmad, Normah, Mamat, Roslina

“…The result from the study indicates that the consumption of Japanese popular culture products is high among Japanese as a Foreign Language (JFL) learners, and this could be implied that they are very interested in anime, manga, song, and seiyu (voice actor), and these are used as a tool to improve their proficiency in the Japanese language.…”

EXPLORING L1 INTERFERENCE IN THE WRITINGS OF KADAZANDUSUN ESL STUDENTS by Chelster Sherralyn Jeoffrey Pudin, John Mark Storey, Loh Yoke Len, Suyansah Swanto, Wardatul Akmam Din

“…The results show that approximately 25% of the errors were attributable to L1 interference, i.e. mode (normal/involuntary), voice (actor (-ing form) /undergoer (-ed form), overuse of article, linker (when linker is used, no article is needed), auxiliary verb and direct translation. …”
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Reading characters in voices: Ratings of personality characteristics from voices predict proneness to auditory verbal hallucinations. by Kaja Julia Mitrenga, Ben Alderson-Day, Lucy May, Jamie Moffatt, Peter Moseley, Charles Fernyhough

“…Results from Study 2 suggest an interaction between gender of participants and the gender of the voice actor, where only ratings of own gender voices on Dominance characteristics are related to hallucination-proneness scores. …”
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Vtubers and anime culture: a case study of Japanese learners in two public universities in Malaysia by Mamat, Roslina, Abdul Rashid, Roswati, Paee, Rokiah, Ahmad, Normah

“…The results showed that the most popular culture is anime, followed by manga, song and seiyuu (voice actor/actress). The most well-liked anime genre is fantasy, followed by humour, love stories (romance), and mystery. …”

How Does a Spontaneously Speaking Conversational Agent Affect User Behavior? by Takahisa Iizuka, Hiroki Mori

“…The synthesized speech is clear as if a newscaster were reading the news or a voice actor were playing an anime character. However, this is quite different from spontaneous speech we speak in everyday conversation. …”
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Idegen tulajdonnevek ejtése a magyar szinkronban by ANDREA PARAPATICS

“… Pronunciation of foreign proper names in Hungarian dubbing Attitudes and experiences of voice actors   The paper investigates Hungarian voice actors’ attitudes to the language quality of texts they have to read for dubbing and narrating foreign language audiovisual products as part of an overall study that is theoretically and practically supported by the most popular voice actors of present-day Hungary and the trade union of Hungarian voice actors. …”
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A phonetic study of Zootopia characters’ voices in Brazilian Portuguese dubbing: the role of stereotypes by Alice Crochiquia, Anders Eriksson, Mario A. S. Fontes, Sandra Madureira

“…Speech samples from the four main personality-distinct characters in the animated feature film “Zootopia” dubbed by Brazilian voice actors have been analysed. Due to the expressive function of voice quality, we have posed the following question: what types of voice quality and vocal dynamics settings were used by the voice actors in the Brazilian dubbing of “Zootopia” to compose the vocal profiles of the characters? …”
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Wearable Neck Surface Accelerometers for Occupational Vocal Health Monitoring: Instrument and Analysis Validation Study by Zhengdong Lei, Lisa Martignetti, Chelsea Ridgway, Simon Peacock, Jon T Sakata, Nicole Y K Li-Jessen

“…MethodsA total of 16 professional voice actors (age range 21-50 years; 11 females and 5 males) participated in this study. …”
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Pot fi actorii „reprezentaţi” de inteligenţa artificială? // Can actors be „represented” by artificial intelligence? by Alexandru Chistruga

“…In other words, digital copies could be used in numerous movies instead of paying for background actors. The future of voice actors is also uncertain because of AI based tools that can replicate and translate the person's voice into almost every language.…”
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Normal-Hearing Listeners’ and Cochlear Implant Users’ Perception of Pitch Cues in Emotional Speech by Steven Gilbers, Christina Fuller, Dicky Gilbers, Mirjam Broersma, Martijn Goudbeek, Rolien Free, Deniz Başkent

“…This study’s aim is to assess whether due to degraded pitch cues, normal-hearing listeners and CI users employ different perceptual strategies to recognize vocal emotions, and, if so, how these differ. Voice actors were recorded pronouncing a nonce word in four different emotions: anger, sadness, joy, and relief. …”
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post-2011 Arab Mediasphere by Yazan Badran

“…To elucidate this argument, we propose a multi-dimensional understanding of these interventions that brings together voices (actors, issues, discourses), modalities of voice (organisational models, values, production value), and the underlying political economy of these emerging media (funding, institutionalisation). …”
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Audible Efforts: Gender and Battle Cries in Classic Arcade Fighting Games by Milena Droumeva

“…These sounds also represent the very real demanding labor of voice actors, whose burnout and vocal strain have recently come to the fore in terms of the games industries’ labor standards (Cazden, 2017). …”
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An Analysis of Actors in Malay Films: Small Worlds, Centralities and Genre Diversity by Nurun Najwa Bahari, Paul Expert, Fatimah Abdul Razak

“…Meanwhile, BC highlights the social importance of an actor in the network where they are the middlemen that connect actors from different genres of movies in the network, and we found that high BC actors are voice actors that may not have a high TFA, DC, or SC. …”
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Development of Therapeutic Alliance and Social Presence in a Digital Intervention for Pediatric Concussion: Qualitative Exploratory Study by Kiarah M K O'Kane, Thalia Otamendi, Noah D Silverberg, Esther Choi, Veronik Sicard, Roger Zemek, Katherine Healey, Olivier Brown, Lauren Butterfield, Andra Smith, Gary Goldfield, Rachel Kardish, Bechara Saab, Andrée-Anne Ledoux, Molly Cairncross

“…Within the app, participants listened to audio recordings of mindfulness guides (voice actors) narrating psychoeducation and mindfulness practices. …”
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