0126 – Don’t Be A Dick With Your Diction

0126 – Don’t Be A Dick With Your Diction  DICTIONIf ‘articulation’ is the process of moving the jaw, tongue, lips and palate to produce different sounds, ‘diction’ is the use of those different ‘packets of sound’ to create understandable words. Don’t be a dick with your dictionAgain, as I have said several times, I’m not saying you must or should change the way you speak, I’m just putting these ideas out there to be of some help if you want to change. And remember it doesn’t really matter how you sound, as long as your target audience understands your ‘message on the mic’, and ideally acts upon it. That is, what you say and how you say it causes them to, say, trust you, buy from you, or be moved by you. Some mis-articulations are because of a physical impairment. It is not the role of this book to advise on issues such as dental work, a cleft palate, nasal issues, stroke recovery and so on, and for those issues you should obviously consult an appropriate medical professional, such as a speech or ENT specialist. Now we know how to form individual sounds, we need to combine them to create recognisable words and with them build sentences so we can communicate. It should also be said that deviations from what has in the past been referred to as ‘proper’ or ‘standard’ English are now properly recognised as accents often reflecting someone’s culture, heritage, age and upbringing. It is certainly not the point of this book to rule on how you should speak, but to give advice on achieving that ‘standard’ sound, should you so wish. It can also help, as I’ve said before, to know more about the area in which you are hoping to make a living or a successful hobby. It’s a bit like armchair chefs who read cookery books, or those who read about car mechanics: you may not intend to make every recipe or strip an engine down – but it’s useful to know what’s going on under the bonnet / hood all the same. Remember, when we use our voice it is in anticipation of communication, to entertain, inform or persuade. If the receiver doesn’t understand the message you are trying to deliver, or that message is ‘scrambled’ because of their preconceptions they make about you because of how you sound, then you have been unsuccessful. That may be their fault rather than yours, but it’s still unsuccessful communication.==Through these under-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.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. 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