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0970 - Uptalk
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 27, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.28 – 0970 - Uptalk Uptalk[1] Symptom: Most sentences end on a lower inflection than how they start, to give a signal that the end of the thought has been reached. Apart from sentences which end with a rising inflection. (“Do you agree?”). Uptalkers use a rising inflection no matter the...
0969 - The Unnaturally Pitched Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 26, 2023 23:01 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.27 – 0969 - Unnaturally pitched voice Unnaturally pitched voice Symptom: This is similar to the ‘mono-tone’ (but where that is usually a lower pitch, this problem is usually one of being too high), and ‘forced pitch’ (but this is not done deliberately). It's when nerves or excitement ...
0968 – The ‘Tired’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 25, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.26 – 0968 – The ‘Tired’ Voice Tired voice Symptom: You sound dull, flat and a little ‘slurry’ as your tongue has trouble forming words. Prescription: · A voice will become tired with the amount, volume or the tone of the sound it is being asked to perform (see: ‘vocal load...
0967 - The ‘Throwaway’ Delivery
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 24, 2023 23:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.25 – 0967 - The ‘Throwaway’ Delivery ‘Throwaway’ delivery Symptom: When your voice trails off on the last word or two of a sentence. This makes them sound unimportant and sometime unintelligible and can be another pattern of talking that you don’t realise you have adopted. Prescrip...
0966 - Throat Clearing
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 23, 2023 23:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.24 – 0966 - Throat Clearing Throat clearing Symptom: Throat clearing can become a habit. The slightest tickle and you may cough, but this irritates the vocal folds even more and makes them more raw and sensitive which then exacerbates the problem. Prescription: · Swap a cou...
0965 – The ‘Thin’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 22, 2023 23:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.23 – 0965 – The ‘Thin’ Voice Thin voice Symptom: A voice which is weak, with a lack of air, energy and resonance. It may lack authority. Prescription: · It may be trained to become stronger and fuller. Review the advice about relaxation to reduce tension, better breathing ski...
0964 - Stumbling
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 21, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.22 – 0964 - Stumbling Stumbling Symptom: Verbal mistakes in adlibbed conversations or more likely, when reading as script: restarting words, mispronunciations, mis-intonations, repeated corrections and generally losing your way in a sentence. I outline some more of these in the episode...
0963 - Stammering –
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 20, 2023 23:01 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.21 – 0963 - Stammering – Stammering – also called ‘stuttering’ Symptom: Stammering is when someone: · repeats sounds or syllables – for example, saying "mu-mu-mu-mummy" · makes sounds longer – for example, "mmmmmmummy" · a word gets stuck or does not come out at...
0962 - 'Sloppy' Speech
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 19, 2023 23:01 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.20 – 0962 - 'Sloppy' Speech Sloppy speech Symptom: Good diction doesn’t (usually) matter (!). As I have said several times in different ways (such as in epsiode 263), what’s important is whether your target listener is getting a muddled message. If they are, then you are not communicat...
0961 – The ‘Sing Song’ Delivery
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 18, 2023 23:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.19 – 0961 – The ‘Sing Song’ Delivery Sing Song Delivery Symptom: This presentation or reading style is characterised by an artificial, repetitive pattern of a gradual rise in pitch for the first part of a sentence …. and then a gradual fall until the end is reached. Or any other regula...
0960 – The ‘Sibilant’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 17, 2023 23:01 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.18 – 0960 – The ‘Sibilant’ Voice Sibilant voice Symptom: When a voice is perceived to have excessive ‘s’ sounds it may be because the microphone is picking up and exaggerating that particular frequency. (Consider that sibilance, like many ‘voice sounds’ is subjective. In other words, ...
0959 - The 'Script-reading' Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 16, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.17 – 0959 - The 'Script-reading' Voice Script-reading voice Symptom: When you sound as though you are reading words rather than communicating or telling a story. When you sound wooden, bored, flat – or at the opposite end of the spectrum, overacting and maybe even shouting. When you so...
0958 – The ‘Quiet’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 15, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.16 – 0958 – The ‘Quiet’ Voice Quiet voice Symptom: I once worked with two people in the same office who spoke very quietly. Neither of them seemed concerned or embarrassed when their colleagues continually said “sorry?” or “pardon?”, or when it was easier, simply nodded along unable t...
0957 - Popping on the Mic
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 14, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.15 – 0957 - Popping on the Mic Popping on the mic Symptom: Some letters are pronounced by the lips temporarily stopping and then releasing a flow of air from your mouth. That means that when you say words with ‘p’ and ‘b’ in them, particularly at the start of a word and particularly if...
0956 – The ‘Plonking’ Speech Pattern
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 13, 2023 23:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.14 – 0956 – The ‘Plonking’ Speech Pattern Plonking speech pattern Symptom: This is when a reader doesn’t know which word to highlight in their intonation, so they do it either randomly or, like a metronome, on every fourth word (or the last word in every SENTENCE). It’s also what pol...
0955 – Noisy Breathing
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 12, 2023 23:01 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.13 – 0955 – Noisy Breathing Noisy breathing Symptom: Your in-breath is clearly heard on the recording, sometimes as a suck (occasionally this comes with a lip-smack as well), or a wheeze. This is covered, along with others from episode 0092 – “The Seven Kinds Of Extra Weird Mouth No...
0954 – The ‘Nervous’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 11, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.12 – 0954 – The ‘Nervous’ Voice Nervous voice Symptom: These may include a higher-pitched, fluttering voice, quickly-snatched breaths, little variation in intonation and regular mistakes. Prescription: · We looked in some depth previously how nerves are a natural part of a pe...
0953 – The 'Nasal' Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 10, 2023 23:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.11 – 0953 – The 'Nasal' Voice Nasal voice Symptom: This is when ‘too much’ sounded-air goes through the nasal cavity where the resonance of sound is changed (a ‘bunged up’ voice is one that doesn’t have enough air through the nasal cavity! Episode 64 discusses the difference in a bit ...
0952 – The ‘Monotonous’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 09, 2023 23:01 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.10 – 0952 – The ‘Monotonous’ Voice Monotonous voice Symptom: Spoken tonal delivery which has little variation, with a perception of a single (or ‘mono’) tone. Such a delivery gives the impression that the speaker is bored or tired, that the topic is boring, or if reading from a script,...
0951 – The ‘Hoarse, Husky or Croaky’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 08, 2023 23:01 - 4 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.09 – 0951 – The ‘Hoarse, Husky or Croaky’ Voice Hoarse, husky or croaky voice Symptom: A raw, scratchy voice (not necessarily low in pitch) which may signify overuse (such as shouting or talking loudly), abuse (such as drinking and smoking) or both (a late-night party for example). Pr...
0950 – The ‘Gravelly’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 07, 2023 23:01 - 2 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.08 – 0950 – The ‘Gravelly’ Voice Gravelly voice Symptom: A low, deep voice with little energy, projection or intonation. Prescription: This may be reduced by losing weight which could enhance better posture and increased energy. This will enable easier breath support (listen to epi...
0949 – The ‘Gabbling’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 06, 2023 23:01 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.07 – 0949 – The ‘Gabbling’ Voice Gabbling voice[1] Symptom: Different situations require different speeds: a brash ‘pile ‘em high and sell ‘em cheap’ commercial is likely to be faster than one for luxury lingerie, a late-night presenter on a classical music station likely to have a sl...
0948 – The ‘Forced Pitch’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 05, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.06 – 0948 – The ‘Forced Pitch’ Voice Forced pitch voice (also see: unnatural pitch) Symptom: Some people force their voice to produce sound at a different pitch than is normal or comfortable for them. Men and women may artificially lower their pitch in the belief that it gives them mor...
0947 – Filler Words
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 04, 2023 23:01 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.05 – 0947 – Filler Words Filler words (over-use of) Symptom: Verbal ticks in conversation, links and adlibs include words like “umm”, “so” and “yeah?” (and, indeed, “like”), or phrases such as “you know what I mean?”, “kinda thing”.[1] Prescription: · Record and listen back ...
0946 – The ‘Ending Pattern’ Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 03, 2023 23:01 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.04 – 0946 – The ‘Ending Pattern’ Voice ‘Ending Pattern’ voice Symptom: A variety of the ‘sing song’ pattern discussed below, this presenter may (annoyingly and predictably) end a phrase or sentence with the same or similar intonation. One beloved of news reporters is to speak natura...
0945 – The ‘Choppy’ delivery
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 02, 2023 23:01 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.03 – 0945 – the ‘Choppy’ Delivery ‘Choppy’ delivery Symptom: This is the style of [breath] having to take a breath [breath] after every few words [breath] in a sentence. The scrip is disjointed. Chopped up. Rather than a smooth flow. Short word-groups are said. Rather than a full, p...
0944 – Bunged up voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - August 01, 2023 23:01 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.02 – 0944 – Bunged up voice Bunged up voice (also see ‘nasal voice’) Symptom: This permanent ‘cold-like’ sound is caused by ‘not enough’ sounded air to get to the nasal cavity, where the resonance of sound is changed. The voice sounds ‘thick’ or ‘clotted’ and there’s little resonance w...
0943 – Breathy Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - July 31, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.08.01 – 0943 – Breathy Voice Breathy voice Symptom: A voice with lots of air, which disperses the sound waves, makes the voice weak, and soon runs out (such as that of Marilyn Munroe[1]). The cause may be serious, a physical problem in closing your vocal folds during phonation causing ex...
0942 – Dry Mouth Problems
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - July 30, 2023 23:01 - 3 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.07.31 – 0942 – Dry Mouth Problems Dry mouth Symptom: Unable to move your tongue around your mouth properly to form words leading to poor articulation and mistakes. Prescription: · Learn to breathe in more through your nose, which moistens and filters the air. Although this is usu...
0941 – The Boring Voice
Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice - July 29, 2023 23:01 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 4 ratings2023.07.30 – 0941 – The Boring Voice Boring voice (aka ‘dull’, ‘flat’, ‘monotonous’, ‘uninterested’) Symptom: If you are having trouble being engaging it may be because your voice lacks variety, and so listeners have trouble working out what is vital and what is trivial. Prescription: · ...
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