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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0944 – Bunged up voice
Description: 2023.08.02 – 0944 – Bunged up voiceBunged up voice (also see ‘nasal voice’)Symptom: This permanent ‘cold-like’ sound is caused by ‘not enough’ sounded air to get to the nasal cavity, where the resonance of sound is changed. The voice sounds ‘thick’ or ‘clotted’ and there’s little resonance where there should be in some sounds (say ‘mmm’ and ‘ng’ – as in “sing” – and pinch your nose, and the sound should stop!)Prescription: · However, the first thing to consider is that the speaker may have got into a bad habit (there is a current trend for this kind of sound which people may be em...