0134 – “Where’s My Demmyster?”

0134 – “Where’s My Demmyster?” PRONUNCIATIONYou may have superb articulation, with every twist of the tongue and every placement of the palate and location of the lips perfect in every way, but how you say an individual, specific word is incorrect.[1] Pronunciation is linked with articulation, but also includes the subtleties of the light and shade of stress and intonation within a word (which we’ll help you with in a later chapter). And as we will see, better pronunciation is also affected by your ability to read and understand what a script is about. A mispronounced word can be embarrassing. It can make you look stupid (even if you are far from it) and you and the business you work for may lose credibility and listeners or viewers.  I’m sure we all have a friend who we silently (or perhaps openly!) laugh at because they always mispronounce a word. Perhaps we even deliberately start a conversational topic in the hope that they will say it. I was once on a marketing course where the presenter, a late-middle aged man, kept referring to the car-maker ‘pyoo-zho’.[2] When I was a young child, a teacher with our class of 8-year olds, asked us where on a car the ‘demmy-ster’ was.[3] There are many examples.[4] Speaking as a witness to the first two examples, I can vouch that the credibility of both of those people suffered a bit of a dent as they were unable to realise their mistake. [1] ‘Pronunciation’ is how a individual person might say a single word. ‘Accent’ is more the style of pronunciation of almost all words. [2] You may know the company better as Peugeot – more commonly pronounced at ‘PER-zho’.[3] If you haven’t got it yet, the teacher had mispronounced the word she was reading, which was actually de-mister.[4] Ee-moo?! NPR’s ‘absurd’ pronunciation starts new emu war in Australia dlvr.it/RfDCnP  ==Through these under-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios.And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.Look out for more details of the book during 2021.Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_Stewart Peter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He’s trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC’s Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC’s in-house newspaper “Ariel”.Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special’ programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects. 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