I’m being slowly sucked into the podcasting world in a way I only quarter-intended. It’s a bit like Twitter. The barrier to self-expression is so significantly lowered relative to longform that your creative energy kinda just leaks there instead of being piped deliberately.
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My accent also gets inconsistent, especially under the pressure of live performance. A random collision of American, British, and Indian pronunciations and modulations.
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These things don’t embarrass me, but they are annoying in the same way a bad handwriting (which I also have) is annoying. Gets in the way of clear communication. In text you can at least type and choose a font. I wouldn’t mind a robotic font-voice. I’d pick comic-sans (oral).
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Live audio performance has 2 potential impedance mismatches Speed of thought vs speed of word selection Speed of word selection vs speed of modulation For me V_T > V_w > V_M. Thoughts tripping over words tripping over sounds.
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In normal conversation it doesn’t matter because I tend to take long thinking pauses and also others take their turns, but monologues of the sort I favor in podcasts (even when being interviewed) require different tempo management tricks. I guess I’ll have to learn.
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Finally part of my ambivalence with the medium is that as a writer first, I appreciate and enjoy well-crafted sentences, and bad ones grate on my ears. Craft takes editing. Transcripts of live audio are bad writing. Maybe the newer editing tools will bridge the quality gap.
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There’s 2 kinds. Voice therapy for specific anatomical issues like mine (chords are weak, strain easily, and don’t close all the way) and the kind singers, actors, and TV presenters get. Difference is like between physiotherapy for rehabilitation vs conditioning fir pro athletes.
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