0183 – Now You Mark-Up For Breaths

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2021.07.02-0183 – Now *You* Mark-Up For Breaths

Transatlantic flights from the UK to the United States could take longer because of climate change. Researchers at the University of Reading say that global warming is likely to speed up the jet stream slowing down planes heading for America.

Transatlantic flights from the UK to the United States could take longer because of climate change. //Researchers at the University of Reading say that global warming is likely to speed up the jet stream / slowing down planes heading for America.

And now see where the newsreader took theirs:

Transatlantic flights from the UK to the United States (BREATH) could take longer (BREATH) because of climate change. (BREATH)Researchers at the University of Reading (BREATH) say that global warming is likely to speed up the jet stream (BREATH) slowing down planes (BREATH) heading for America.

I’m sure you would agree that the resulting unnatural phrasing of this story makes it less natural and more difficult to follow. And once you realise where the reader is breathing so awkwardly in every story, it’s difficult to un-hear it, and so the you listen for the breaths rather than listen for the sense.

This is referred to as ‘choppiness’, when a breath is taken after each phrase rather than at the end of a sentence. It indicates that the reader is not in control of the breathing or perhaps doesn’t understand the story (and the different phrases that make it up) and leads to an uneven read that’s far from fluent.

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Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.

He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper “Ariel”.

Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.

The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?

This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects.

Music credits:

"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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