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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0679 – Concatenation Concerns
Description: 2022.11.10 – 0679 – Concatenation ConcernsCharacter creep can cause particular problems when combined with concatenation. This is where a voice-over has to read a short list of incomplete sentences, and then a long list of places, numbers, or other ‘options’. You will have heard examples on transport services, telephone booking systems and sat navs: the original sentences are completed by the computer selecting the appropriate word or phrase from the second list (“The train now standing on platform 2 is the 15.36 service to London Waterloo…”). It takes a special skill, and a lot of patience to not only keep in ‘character’ while recording th...