direct-a-voice-recording

name	direct-a-voice-recording
category	media
description	Direct a safe, consistent voice-recording session with performance context, technical checks, consent, and usable coverage. Use when recording narration, dialogue, prompts, or voiceover.

direct-a-voice-recording

Create conditions for a repeatable performance without pushing the speaker past comfort, consent, or vocal safety.

Procedure

1. Confirm script version, audience, tone, pronunciation, deliverables, usage rights, session length, and approval owner.
2. Review consent, compensation, identity or synthetic-voice restrictions, confidentiality, retakes, and future-use boundaries.
3. Mark the script for meaning, emphasis, pace, pauses, pronunciation, alternate readings, and pickups.
4. Prepare a quiet, accessible space with water, breaks, communication, and safe microphone placement.
5. Set recording format, sample rate, bit depth, input, distance, gain, monitoring, file naming, and redundant capture where needed.
6. Record room tone and a test; listen for clipping, noise, reflections, plosives, mouth noise, latency, and interference.
7. Give direction in terms of audience, intention, and specific observable adjustment rather than personal judgment.
8. Capture complete takes, targeted pickups, difficult names, alternate pacing, and intentional silence.
9. Stop for strain, discomfort, changed consent, technical failure, or unsafe conditions.
10. Verify files, notes, backups, selected takes, rights records, and handoff before release.

Failure plan

• Never clone, transform, or reuse a voice beyond documented consent.
• Do not pressure a performer through pain, distress, identity-sensitive material, or revoked consent.
• If audio integrity is uncertain, pause and monitor a fresh test rather than continuing unusable capture.
• Restrict unreleased scripts and raw voice files appropriately.

Done

• Consent, script, pronunciations, technical format, and usage are confirmed
• Test, room tone, full takes, pickups, and two verified copies are recorded
• Session notes and rights evidence travel with the accepted files