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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0154 – The Easy-Listening Formula
Description: 0154 – The Easy-Listening FormulaAmerican broadcaster Irving E. Fang researched what makes broadcast copy easy or difficult to understand. He devised the Easy Listening Formula, which is based on the length of words in a sentence. The idea is to add up all the syllables in a sentence, then subtract from that the number of words. If the final score is higher than 20, the sentence contains too many long and abstract words that would make it hard to understand, and it should be cut down.==Through these around-5-m...