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  • 0256 - Weight And Pitch in Intonation
    2021.09.13 – 0256 - Weight And Pitch in IntonationAn Introduction to IntonationIntonation is, then, the weight and pitch one puts on individual words or phrases that draw attention to their significance and thereby communicate the overall message. Correct intonation leads a listener through a story, with the reader an interpreter or trusted guide of the facts about what ‘makes the story, a story’. The reader of a newspaper is led around the printed page by its layout. Television approaches this with its graphics and strong visual element, but in radio the layout is invisible and sometimes inaudible. Stories are separated by pauses and there is only the reader’s voice and the writer’s ability to help the listener tell where one story ends and the next begins.Peter Stewart - “Broadcast Journalism” Routledgehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Broadcast-Journalism-Peter-Stewart/dp/1138886033 Intonation is what we naturally do when we ad-lib a conversation. The trick is to work out what we do then, so we can do it when we read the written word out-loud, so we sound conversational in that situation too. We ‘lift the script’ so we appear to be ‘saying’ it, rather than ‘reading’ it. If you’re reading something on air and you want the listener to think that you’re ad-libbing, you have to sound as if you’re processing what you’re talking about and sound conversational. Most books on voice and public speaking omit training in intonation. I have been on one-to-one and group courses on presentation skills and again, and barely a word on this key skill. And you can hear the result of such lack of understanding on radio and TV stations, up and down the dial.
    This is not one of those books.
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build yourconfidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection andprojection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mictechniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a careerspent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start apodcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode! And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are notrandom topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTERBROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE. Look out for more details of the book during 2021. Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life andhas trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop musicstations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical musicstation BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters onregional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’sPanorama. 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 presentationand production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of“Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and haswritten on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper“Ariel”. Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heardhim on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regionalradio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows,‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts andcommentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedicationprogrammes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspectsof voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts andYouTube, voiceovers and videocalls. The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change theirspeaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or bepressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well awarethat how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfullycommunicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially beingacted 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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 
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    3 min
  • 0255 – Intonation Definitions
    2021.09.12-0255 – Intonation Definitions
    Intonation – is the subtle combination of tone, pitch and volume that you give to individual words or phrases as part of your overall musicality of inflection – and that’s the point of this chapter.
    Therefore, I will refer to intonation rather than inflection as the way to read conversationally and with meaning.
    I shall be careful not to use ‘stress’ as the word can also be used to mean ‘physical or mental stress’ (causing tension in the body and leading to a change of voice). I dislike using ‘emphasis’ too much as I feel that this often gives the impression that a word needs to be ‘punched’ with increased energy and associated volume, where invariably to add significance to a word or phrase it simply needs to be slightly ‘lifted’ or ‘lowered’ in pitch, perhaps depending on whether it’s a question or a statement. Additionally, we have seen already that ‘pitch’ and ‘tone’ are different things. ‘Pitch’ is the register of the voice (simply put, ‘high’ or ‘low’). I use ‘tone’ for the overall sound that a story or script may be read in (‘concerned’, ‘serious’, ‘light-hearted’).
    Similarly, there is a subtle difference between ‘volume’ and ‘projection’, where the former is a basic increase in loudness or noise along the path to shouting (or ‘raising one’s voice’) and the latter is a more nuanced way of ‘throwing one’s voice’ when speaking on mic in a studio to ‘reach out’ to those who you cannot see. Projection is a close-cousin of lifting and emphasising a word.
    Of course, all of these elements are interrelated: intonation itself may involve a subtle nuanced combination of tone (as its name might suggest: in-tone-ation), volume, pitch and ‘punch’.
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build yourconfidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection andprojection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mictechniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a careerspent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start apodcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode! And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are notrandom topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTERBROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE. Look out for more details of the book during 2021. Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life andhas trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop musicstations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical musicstation BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters onregional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’sPanorama. 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 presentationand production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of“Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and haswritten on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper“Ariel”. Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heardhim on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regionalradio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows,‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts andcommentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedicationprogrammes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspectsof voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts andYouTube, voiceovers and videocalls. The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change theirspeaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or bepressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well awarethat how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfullycommunicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially beingacted 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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 
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    6 min
  • 0254 – Inflection Definitions
    0254 – Inflection Definitions INFLECTION AND INTONATION DEFINITIONSDefinitions for words surrounding different parts of speaking are many, varied and often interchangeable. For clarity I shall use:
    Inflection – the overall sound of a language. Listen to someone speaking in a language that you do not understand and the overall rise and fall of their sound, its musicality, is the inflection. ‘Cadence’ or ‘prosody’ could be considered other words for ‘inflection’.
    Inflection is the ‘sum of all the parts’ of all the elements in the various chapters here: the intonation of words and phrases + the projection + the tone + the pitch + the speed – all of which are nuanced in their own variety.
    We all have slightly different inflections because of our upbringings and personalities but in general, yours will sound one way when talking to a toddler, and another when talking to your boss. It will sound one way when explaining something complicated and another when you are recounting a funny story. For instance, a rising inflection would be heard in a sentence with a question: “Did you really just say that to him?!” when the pitch gets increasingly lighter.
    A falling inflection as you might suspect, shows finality: “I did – and I’m not worried and I’m not worried one jot”.
    Some sentences include a rise and fall: “But when she finds out about it – you could get fired” – in which you start with a rise in tone through to “about it” (which suggests that neither the story nor the sentence is finished), and then a falling inflection through to the serious finality word “fired”.
    A circumflex inflection is when there is a rise and a fall (or a fall and a rise) within a single word or even a vowel within a word. Think that sounds complicated? Well, actually we do it all the time. “There’s absolutely no wa-ay you’re gonna get away with it!” Yes, you could naturally just colour those two words either higher or lower, but in a tone of incredulity you’re more likely to bend each of them. (There’s more on this later in the chapter.)
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build yourconfidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection andprojection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mictechniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a careerspent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start apodcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode! And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are notrandom topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTERBROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE. Look out for more details of the book during 2021. Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life andhas trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop musicstations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical musicstation BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters onregional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’sPanorama. 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 presentationand production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of“Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and haswritten on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper“Ariel”. Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heardhim on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regionalradio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows,‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts andcommentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedicationprogrammes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspectsof voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts andYouTube, voiceovers and videocalls. The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change theirspeaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or bepressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well awarethat how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfullycommunicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially beingacted 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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 
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    6 min
  • 0253 – An Introduction To Intonation
    0253 – An Introduction To IntonationIn this Intonation Section·        How to recognize the principles of intonation used naturally in everyday speech·        How to apply these principles in ‘unnatural’ scripted words, written by someone else·        How to communicate the meaning of the reading – even with complicated content·        How to speak naturally ·        How to make the written word sound unforced and natural In short, how to give meaning to your reading
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build yourconfidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection andprojection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mictechniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a careerspent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start apodcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode! And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are notrandom topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTERBROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE. Look out for more details of the book during 2021. Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life andhas trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop musicstations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical musicstation BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters onregional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’sPanorama. 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 presentationand production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of“Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and haswritten on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper“Ariel”. Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heardhim on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regionalradio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows,‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts andcommentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedicationprogrammes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspectsof voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts andYouTube, voiceovers and videocalls. The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change theirspeaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or bepressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well awarethat how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfullycommunicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially beingacted 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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 
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    2 min
  • 0252 – Non-Word Sounds
    0252 – Non-Word Sounds
    It’s not just words that are requested in voice overs and voice acting. As we just saw, there are sighs gasps and screams too. Here are a few more sounds which are often requested at sessions, and which might be worth you practicing:·        burping·        cheering·        crying·        drinking·        gasping·        laughing·        sneezing / blowing nose
    Also common ones in games:·        climbing and lifting oneself up ·        jumping up, landing down and falling impacts·        punching and being punched·        kicking and being kicked ·        lifting an object (light, medium, heavy)·        throwing (a rock, spear)·        dying (from being stabbed, choked, shot and so on)
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build yourconfidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection andprojection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mictechniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a careerspent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start apodcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode! And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are notrandom topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTERBROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE. Look out for more details of the book during 2021. Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life andhas trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop musicstations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical musicstation BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters onregional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’sPanorama. 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 presentationand production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of“Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and haswritten on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper“Ariel”. Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heardhim on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regionalradio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows,‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts andcommentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedicationprogrammes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspectsof voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts andYouTube, voiceovers and videocalls. The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change theirspeaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or bepressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well awarethat how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfullycommunicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially beingacted 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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 
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    5 min
  • 0251 - How To Sound Happy And Friendly… And Sad
    0251 - How To Sound Happy And Friendly… And Sad
    When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you. But what if they can't see you? What if they can just hear you?  Smile and raise your eyebrows. That’s because smiling affects how we speak, to the point that listeners can identify the type of smile based on sound alone, according to a study by scientists at the University of Portsmouth.[1] The research suggests smiling and other expressions pack a strong informational punch and may even impact us on a subliminal level. It's believed that some 50 different types of smiles exist, ranging from triumphant ones to those that convey bitterness. The research lead author Amy Drahota said "When we listen to people speaking, we may be picking up on all sorts of cues, even unconsciously, which help us to interpret the speaker". Researchers identified three different types of smiles when they asked contributors to read the same answer “I do in the summer” to different increasingly unusual questions: The Duchenne smile - where the lips are drawn back, the cheeks are raised and you get little crows-feet wrinkles around the eyes. The non-Duchenne smile – which is similar but less intense smile, without the crows-feet wrinkles around the eyes. The suppressed smile – when a someone is trying not to smile while they’re speaking perhaps because they are trying to remain serious pulling their lips in or down as they speak.  No smile - where people just speaking normally. The smiles were categorised, and were then played back to another group of people who were asked whether they thought the ‘answerer’ was smiling as they spoke, and most people were good at hearing the Duchenne smile. “A voice contains a variety of acoustical characteristics” said Drahota. “It’s possible that we interpret these ‘flavours’ in someone’s voice almost without noticing.” I know a voice talent who puts rubber ducks on top of their screen because it made them smile. Someone else puts a mirror in front of them, so they make sure they’re smiling as they’re reading.  And as for a sad tone, a voice-over colleague once told me that when her mother died – and she had some ‘sad reads’ to complete, so just went into the ‘grieving zone’ and thought of her mum to help her. Of course that’s not necessarily something you can do, but you could watched a sad video on YouTube, to bring you to tears, or at least put you in that emotional mindset.
    [1] Source: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18255131&t=1603124379938 ; https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080111224745.htm ; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2007.10.001
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart
    Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!
    And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.
    Look out for more details of the book during 2021.
    Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart
    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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    5 min
  • 0250 - Tone and Your Mood
    0250 - Tone and Your MoodYour natural unforced vocal tone at any moment (and tone is different from ‘pitch’ remember) is partly a reflection of how you are feeling, your general mood, and physical and mental state.  If you feel positive and upbeat, so will your voice. If your car broke down, the dog’s been sick on the cat and your wife is threatening to leave you, such worries will also be reflected in your voice. Saying “leave your troubles at the studio door” is easier said than done, but there are some other tricks to, well, trick your mind to change your tone:·        If appropriate for the copy you are reading, putting a smile on your face will help produce a happier sound in your voice·        Positive posture will help – gestures of openness, outstretched arms, uncrossed legs and so on·        Big breaths, ideally of natural air combined with a brisk walk and some natural light on your skin
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart
    Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!
    And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.
    Look out for more details of the book during 2021.
    Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart
    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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    3 min
  • 0249 - A Change of Mood
    0249 - A Change of MoodThose voicing commercials or longer presentations such as e-books or explainers will have to work to alter their ‘performance attitude’ during a script. That’s because:·        The script will call for different ‘delivery feels’ to be reflected within the same read·        A single ‘mood’ will be wearing on the presenter and the listener·        A sometimes-subtle change of mood in the delivery aids understanding and the flow of the read Think of an advert for a mortgage company which may have a reassuring and comforting tone with the voice-over talking about fulfilling your dreams of owning your own home. You can imagine that that would be read in a warm, reassuring style, slower paced and possibly in a lower pitch.  But at the end of the ad there needs to be a disclaimer along the lines of “Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage…”, or for a mobile phone offer “Subject to status, availability and connection to 18-month contract. Unlimited calls to landlines or same-network mobiles only. Fair-use policy, terms and 60-minute call cap applies".  These phrases are a legal obligation, and although they have to be read intelligibly, for the advertiser (and probably the listener and the radio station as well), they may be considered ‘clutter’. So, they are put at the end of the commercial, and with a different tone: with high energy, at a quick rate, less conversationally, and often with more projection.
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart
    Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!
    And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.
    Look out for more details of the book during 2021.
    Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart
    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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    3 min
  • 0248 - Brand Voices
    0248 - Brand VoicesEarlier we looked at the different kinds of emotional voice tones you may be required to replicate in your script-reading and also mentioned the ‘mood’ of the overall project.
    Brands often create a ‘tone-of-voice’ for their product or service, to better explain their marketing focus for certain demographics. That could be the design, font and colour of their logo, the celebrities associated with the item, their social media attitude and so on. The literal ‘tone of voice’ of their audio should also be a part of this from the kind of person that’s on the HQ on-hold message, to voice-overs on the commercials or corporate website.
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart
    Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!
    And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.
    Look out for more details of the book during 2021.
    Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart
    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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    2 min
  • 0247 - Script Direction
    0247 - Script Direction More clues to your tone of voice will of course come from the direction both written in your script and from your human director in the studio. It should also set out who you are speaking to, the answer to the cliché actor’s question “what’s my motivation?” as well as the mood of the overall project (see below) and the demographic of the intended audience. You can use this information to help you visualise the scene and the situation, and in turn that will help the emotion in your vocal performance. When you start a read, especially one that is ‘conversational’, you need to begin ‘cold’ - you start with the very first sentence, with nothing to ‘react to’. Some voice actors find that tricky to do, so it may help to imagine the sentence that goes before the script. So, what has led you to say this ‘starting sentence’ and come out with this comment? What is it that you’re responding to? Get the answers to those and you may find it easier to create the right tone or attitude.
    Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart
    Through these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!
    And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.
    Look out for more details of the book during 2021.
    Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart
    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)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
    "Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
    3 min

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