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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0953 – The 'Nasal' Voice
Description: 2023.08.11 – 0953 – The 'Nasal' VoiceNasal voice Symptom: This is when ‘too much’ sounded-air goes through the nasal cavity where the resonance of sound is changed (a ‘bunged up’ voice is one that doesn’t have enough air through the nasal cavity! Episode 64 discusses the difference in a bit more detail.) Although powerful and penetrating, such a voice has a thin and twangy ‘honk’ to it, with very little depth. It sounds false and put on for broadcasting and is sometimes described as “too much of a ‘head-sound’” – there’s a great example in episode 417 from a TV sitcom character you may re...