EP: Animatic - With Voice

Last week I was fortunate enough to have my cousin visit to record the voice over for my animation, which really helped me with my second animation, as it gave me an idea of timings for speech throughout.
However, after recording I listened to what I had and I was having second thoughts. The animatic itself is still too long, and I haven't made the adjustments for the pauses or do I have the timings for the actions. Although the animatic is shorter than the previous one, I'm not 100% certain that I want this to be the final one, as I feel that the story could still run smoother and panels could still be removed.

In terms of speech within the animation, I feel that it would be better to remove it and just have subtle noises such as gasps and other small sounds that the character makes. This way I won't have to animate speech and it will to cut down the panels from my storyboard.

I think I need to sit down and go through my storyboard again and cut what I can and put the animatic together in a more accurate manner to give me a more appropriate suggestion of what I want to achieve.