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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0908 – When You Simply Can’t Speak At All
Description: 2023.06.27 – 0908 – When You Simply Can’t Speak At AllThe clinical name for hoarseness is ‘dysphonia’ and complete (or almost complete) voice loss is ‘aphonia’.Often the symptoms are caused by infection, physical abnormality or disease, but emotional distress can also be at the root, when it is referred to as a ‘psychogenic’ voice disorder.Extreme performance anxiety may include paralysis: freezing, fainting or losing the ability to talk at all.[1]In the singing world (where of course, artists perform in front of a living, breathing audience, unlike the solo studio presentations of m...