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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0216 – Margaret Thatcher’s Pitch Profile
Description: 0216 – Margaret Thatcher’s Pitch Profile “From tape recordings of speeches made before and after receiving tuition a marked difference can be very hear. When there are played through an electronic pitch analyser, it emerges that she achieved a reduction in pitch of 46 Hz, a figure which is almost half the average difference in pitch between male and female voices.”[1] But forcing your voice into a lower pitch can be damaging. In the short term it can be tiring: you are unnecessarily using muscles you don’t need to (after all, your ‘home pitch’ is...