SLS: How To Use Your Voice to Keep Listeners

Spreaker Live Show #156 for June 6th, 2018Show Duration: 58 minutes-Host: Rob Greenlee, Head of Partnerships, Voxnest and Spreaker @robgreenlee - rob(at)voxnest(dotcom)-Co-Host: Alex Exum, Host of “The Exum Experience Podcast” on Spreaker-We stream LIVE every Weds at 3 Pacific /6pm EST from SpreakerLiveShow.com- I traveled to Lisbon, Portugal to give a two day podcasting workshop to journalists at a conference called the GENSummit.org - May 27-June 3Show Today:- Use Your Voice and Make People Listen- Apple Releases New Numbers on Scale of Podcasting- Spreaker Blog offers New Epic Podcast Stories- Podcasting Keeps Inching Towards Measurement StandardsI am back from traveling to Lisbon, Portugal to give a two day podcasting workshop to journalists at a conference called the GENSummit.org - May 27-June 3One key lesson is that Podcasting as a Medium is growing around the world and Spanish and other languages are important to the scale growth of the mediumOn the show today:- Learn to Use Your Voice and Make People ListenIf people in business realized how much power they have with their voices- The Power of VoiceVocal levels can be exciting or lull listeners to sleep. It’s just that simple. It is therefore essential for anyone to move beyond the “one level” in vocal components. In the world we live in, we are now trained to check out quite easily — the minute things don’t keep our attention. So several components become key to keep our audience’s attention. In my world, there are numerous qualities that make up a fantastic voice, but for the sake of this article, I want to talk about what I refer to as the Big 3: volume, speed, and pitch.1. Volume. Normally we speak at a moderate volume, and that’s great, but it can also be our death. In order to keep our audience’s attention, we need to alternate, at the appropriate times, loud and soft. 2. Speed. Most people speak at a moderate rate of speed. Speed variables are often related to different regions in the United States or world. The bottom line, no matter what your regular rate of speed is, you want to make sure you incorporate all three speeds, fast, slow, and moderate, into your speaking with the majority of your speech being moderate. The main reason for choosing moderate speed rather than fast is because it takes listeners a minute to catch up and “hear” what you said after the words come out of your mouth. If you talk too fast, people will give up trying to stay with you and will stop listening. If your rate of speed is too slow, your listeners will check out because they’re bored. Ideally, try doing a combination of moderate pace, fast pace, and slow pace. What you want to do is find the places in your speech, dialogue, pitch, presentation, or conversation where talking faster is more appropriate and where talking slower is best.3. PitchNow, pitch is a little more tricky, especially for men. The degrees of varying pitch do not need to be extreme, but if you can alternate or add in some low or high pitch, it will make your speaking voice sound more interesting. If your normal speaking voice is really high, you may consider adjusting your natural pitch to something a little more moderate. High pitches also can be annoying if they’re too high and have no variables. Low pitches, on the other hand, are not hard to listen to; in fact, most people really like them. Be careful, however, if you tend to speak in a low tone that you shake up your speaking with varying speed and volume.- Apple Releases New Numbers on Scale of PodcastingApple Podcasts currently hosts north of 550,000 active shows, a bump from the 525,000 the company reported back in April — that’s a considerable jump from the 3,000 programs it hosted when the program launched back in 2005,” reads the report. “The new numbers include 18.5 million individual episodes representing 155 countries, in more than 100 languages.”- Spreaker Blog offers New Epic Podcast Stories at blog.spreaker.comExtraordinary Women Explained; An Interview With Heroine PodcastQ&A Interviews covering the journey these shows went through to growThey are almost like White Paper examples of shows and the processhttp://blog.spreaker.com- Podcasting Keeps Inching Towards Measurement StandardsThe IAB standard creates this short-term pain because it addresses a problem that’s arisen as podcasting has grown into a mobile-dominated medium. If a user began streaming an episode, podcast apps such as Apple’s, which accounts for a majority of podcast consumption, would download the show in chunks, rather than all at once, and in many cases, the shows’ hosting platforms would record those requests as multiple downloads. That and other moves artificially inflated download counts across the industry, particularly for shows with longer episodes or higher bit rates.https://digiday.com/media/podcasting-keeps-inching-toward-measurement-standard/Spreaker/Voxnest Links:https://Voxnest.comhttp://blog.spreaker.comhttp://SpreakerLiveShow.comhttps://Spreaker.comEmail: rob at voxnest.comSend Questions and Comments to:Twitter: http://twitter.com/spreaker using #SpreakerLiveTwitter: http://twitter.com/VoxNestTwitter: http://twitter.com/robgreenleeTwitter: http://twitter.com/alexeum Tech Support: support at spreaker.com