I'm shocked these days at the state of some on-screen and voice talent.
I mostly hear people in Podcasts, and man, if I were going to be on a
podcast as a subject matter expert, I'd work a little bit on my voice.

This whole dropping mid-syllable "t" sounds done by younger people ("Impor-Int") drives me crazy.

Adult women speaking on subject matters where they're brought on as an authority, with vocal fry? Similar levels of frustration.

After seeing Katie Britt's rebuttal to the US "State of the Union"
address and hearing what sounded like emotional, breathy
"voice-cracking", I just heard a middle-aged teacher describing how Khan Academy helped engage her students.

None of these vocal habits tend to instill trust or confidence in
people, unless the only game now is to mirror your audience's style.
I've noticed some people who I've followed for years dropping their Ts
may be evidence of this.

I don't want to go back to 1960s voice talent or Katherine Hepburn's mid-atlantic accent,, but there's got to be a better way of engaging
with your audience.






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I'm shocked these days at the state of some on-screen and voice
talent. I mostly hear people in Podcasts, and man, if I were
going to be on a podcast as a subject matter expert, I'd work a
little bit on my voice.

This whole dropping mid-syllable "t" sounds done by younger
people ("Impor-Int") drives me crazy.

Adult women speaking on subject matters where they're brought on
as an authority, with vocal fry? Similar levels of frustration.

After seeing Katie Britt's rebuttal to the US "State of the
Union" address and hearing what sounded like emotional, breathy "voice-cracking", I just heard a middle-aged teacher describing
how Khan Academy helped engage her students.

None of these vocal habits tend to instill trust or confidence in
people, unless the only game now is to mirror your audience's
style. I've noticed some people who I've followed for years
dropping their Ts may be evidence of this.

I don't want to go back to 1960s voice talent or Katherine
Hepburn's mid-atlantic accent,, but there's got to be a better
way of engaging with your audience.

The "onscreen talent" is just another reflection of society in general. Anywhere you want to check/look will produce the same revelations.
People talk like thugs and illiterates because that's what the audience
is becoming. Just another indicator of the slow but steady erosion of
our educational systems and values. Not sure where it ends.



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People talk like thugs and illiterates because that's what the audience is becoming.

And they celebrate it with fervor, while the educated experts & people who are actually trained their field are ridiculed when they try present their view on subject they do actually know something about.

Just another indicator of the slow but steady erosion of
our educational systems and values. Not sure where it ends.

Shudder... the next dark age approaches. I figure we'll all end up letting AI run everything. Slowly but surely the human race will become so stupid that we can't even fix our broken AI, which like all tech will at some point break.

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