About the episode
In this episode of How Humans Talk, Rune wants to understand how some people make words leap off a page, and into our ears. Rune dives into the world of professional voice acting with voice coach and voice actor Abbe Holmes, who has spent decades helping people turn flat scripts into vibrant, believable performances. Together, they explore how voice actors bring life to language - from manipulating pitch and rhythm to working with (or against) clunky copy. Abbe explains how authenticity is often crafted, not spontaneous, and why the difference between sounding “real” and reading aloud is all in the breath, pauses, and intention. You’ll hear how voice acting plays with trust and emotion, how actors fix poor writing mid-performance, and why sounding natural takes more skill than it seems. Rune also learns that the secret to voiceover may have less to do with the words, and more to do with how we choose to express them.
