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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0952 – The ‘Monotonous’ Voice
Description: 2023.08.10 – 0952 – The ‘Monotonous’ VoiceMonotonous voiceSymptom: Spoken tonal delivery which has little variation, with a perception of a single (or ‘mono’) tone. Such a delivery gives the impression that the speaker is bored or tired, that the topic is boring, or if reading from a script, that they have not understood the content enough to feel confident giving correctly-placed intonation.Some people deliberately adopt a flatter-sounding voice in the (mistaken) belief that it makes them sound authoritative, as they are keeping their emotions under control. A listener could mentally turn off from such a ‘drone...