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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0070 – The Tip Of The Tongue And The Teeth And The Lips
Description: Speaking requires a complicated combination of ‘articulatory gymnastics’ to create what, on screen or paper, seems a simple sentence.  After our brain processes the hieroglyphic word-forms, we instantaneously and sub-consciously order our diaphragm to send a supply of air across the vocal folds, which are tilted and turned to produce pockets of sounded-air which are sent up the vocal tract. Some of that air is diverted through the nasal cavity depending on what’s needed to create just a fraction of one individual word-sound. The rest is channelled through the mouth. From BBC pres...