To sound like a dubbed Naruto version you will need to stay energetic and assertive, smile, shout, emphasize certain words, raise your pitch, overact and add slight hoarseness to the voice.

So here’s an in depth guide on how to do Naruto’s voice impression.

Stay energetic

The iconic Naruto voice is always energetic. Keep the energy up to sound like Naruto. You can involve sudden body movements and hand gestures to help to embody the character. Mimicking Naruto’s body movements will help to get into the character.

Smile

Naruto normally has a happy and goofy attitude. Try smiling when doing Naruto impressions to better convey happy character. When you smile your voice naturally tends to sound happier and it will also raise your pitch a bit. Adjust your body and your voice will follow.

Emphasize certain words

Naruto as a character loves to emphasize certain phrases such as “I will”, “I am going to”, “I can’t fail”. Try to put emphasis on these self encouraging phrases to better convey the voice of Naruto.

Shout

Naruto is such an extrovert character, doesn’t care if he sounds silly or obnoxious and loves to get carried away. Try to incorporate a little bit of shouting once in a while as it is one of the more prominent characteristics of Naruto.

Add slight hoarseness to your voice

Naruto’s character is voiced by a female American voice over artist Maile Flanagan who has a slightly hoarse voice. Try adding a bit of hoarseness to your voice to sound more like Naruto’s character

Shouting will definitely help, but you can also achieve a subtly hoarse voice by pushing some extra air out of your lungs. This will add some extra breath and hoarseness to the voice.

In addition, try warming up your voice with some vocal exercises such as lip trills and tongue rolls to add that warm fuzziness into your voice which is common for many voice actor voices.

Raise your pitch

Naruto is still a teen in the anime series and has a higher, young sounding voice. That’s why the character is played by a female voice actor.

You will want to raise your voice a bit to sound more like Naruto. To do so, imagine speaking from the upper part of your face mask. You can also read more on how to achieve a high voice in this article.

Assertive

Naruto’s character is very assertive and never doubts himself. To sound more like Naruto finish your sentences strong. You don’t want to draw out your words.

Naruto speaks first and thinks later. Therefore, keep an assertive tone and finish your sentence strongly

Overact

Most of the anime is over the board in terms of acting. It would be weird if we spoke like they do in anime and overreacted to everything but that is the style of genre.

Naruto is a very emotional character even when compared to other anime characters. Put all your emotions and go way over the board when doing Naruto’s voice impression.

Change the tempo

When conveying Naruto’s character try changing the tempo once in a while. Naruto’s character is unpredictable and to him, some ideas occur randomly and suddenly in his head.

Naruto doesn’t bother to think about what he says hence once the idea comes into his head, he is going to spill it out without thinking about it first. Therefore, the tempo in his speech is often varying from regular to spurred.

To make your voice sound higher, you will want to practice relaxing your throat muscles for easier voice control. Then you can apply vocal and breathing exercises to learn to engage the right muscles and increase your vocal capacity.

Finally, utilizing your nasal cavities, practicing reading and recording yourself will help to fine-tune the high voice you want.

Relax throat muscles

First of all, to be able to control your voice better, you need to make your upper body muscles become loose and flexible. Try relaxing your whole upper body, mouth and throat muscles with stretching exercises and yawning.

The relaxed muscles around your larynx will allow more flexibility and will expand your vocal capabilities, making it easier to achieve a high voice.

Engage and release throat

Perform this exercise where you create “ahh” sound by engaging your vocal cords and then releasing them for a released sound.

This exercise will teach you to control your vocal cords better. I’ve added a video for more details.

Once you master the technique, practice the exercises in varying pitch by going as high as you can.

Breathing exercises

Breathing exercises are great for increasing your lung capacity. By default, we usually breathe shallow breaths.

Try implementing diaphragm breathing to involve more muscles and provide more air into your lungs. This will help to maintain a high-pitched voice for longer.

Otherwise, you risk lacking air to maintain the change in pitch, which is more demanding than your natural voice.

To give your lungs more air, try strengthening your diaphragm by laying down on a bed and putting some weight onto the belly, then breathe using the diaphragm muscles.

You will know that you are breathing through the diaphragm once it feels as if your tummy is filling up when breathing and your shoulders don’t rise as much.

This exercise will give you more air to work with and set you up to maintain a high-pitched voice for longer.

Use your nasal cavities

Try speaking more through your noise which will add some nasal qualities to the voice.

Nasal voice sounds more brittle and higher-pitched. When speaking, you should emphasize resonating within the upper part of your face mask where the nose is.

Practice reading in a higher voice

Practice using a high voice when reading. Pick up any book or article and read it in your highest voice. Continue reading with a high-pitched voice until your voice gets tired.

Spending 10 or so minutes daily reading in a high pitch voice will make you feel more comfortable using the voice and it will start sounding more natural once you get a hang of it.

Record yourself

Record yourself to see how your voice develops and track your progress while achieving a high voice.

In addition, there are apps such as Vocular that can measure the pitch in which you are speaking. This will help to accurately assess your progress and motivate you.

When recording, you will notice flaws that you make, which otherwise can be unnoticeable.

Use EQ

If you don’t perform live you can use EQ after recording to make your voice sound higher.

Try cutting all frequencies below 60Hz, as they are redundant anyway. Then reduce all frequencies up to 500Hz by 3-4dB. This will reduce low-end frequencies and will make high-end frequencies of your voice more audible.