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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0419 – The Problem With Pauses
Description: 2022.02.23 – 0419 – The Problem With Pauses PROBLEMS WITH PAUSESIn commercial voiceovers, the pauses are often edited out to leave a ‘word-wall of sound’. I was once asked to record a daily podcast for an (in)famous media company. They loved my voice and presentation style, but had one request: could I please go back and edit out all of my breaths from the recording as “people don’t want to hear them”. Errr!Removing breaths disrupts this natural rhythm and therefore interferes with our understanding of the content, but it’s done to cram more...