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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0948 – The ‘Forced Pitch’ Voice
Description: 2023.08.06 – 0948 – The ‘Forced Pitch’ VoiceForced pitch voice (also see: unnatural pitch)Symptom: Some people force their voice to produce sound at a different pitch than is normal or comfortable for them. Men and women may artificially lower their pitch in the belief that it gives them more gravitas or presence. (Raising the pitch is less usual.)  This results in an inauthentic delivery which the listener can usually detect. At the very least a listener may be concentrating more to the voice than the content, the speaker having created an obstacle to clear communication. Using one’s natural ‘...