Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License 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. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?
We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time.
It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. 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. 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 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”. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. 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. Look out for more details of the book during 2021.
If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!Īnd 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.
with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. 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. Far better to change your voice in your body instead, and then only enhance what you have already.Ĭredible delivery is more important than a deep voice.Īudio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter Stewart If you’re not careful, such changes can have the effect of making you sound muffled.
In fact, it’s the opposite as your folds are working in a way that they are not used to.Īnd don’t rely on changing the EQ controls on the microphone channel or altering the compressor to make you sound more ‘butch’. Oh and some people deliberately speak in a high register in the mistaken belief that it reduces strain on their voice. Additionally, if you start speaking at an enforced low pitch you will restrict your ability for natural nuance when it is necessary for selected words, leading to a voice that sounds monotonous. 0217 – How Imperfect Pitch Got Jamal Into A Jamįorcing your voice into a ‘false pitch’, can literally cramp your style.Ī voice that is deliberately pushed low can sound unnaturally strained and can cause physical harm to the speaker.