Speech therapy

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testerdahl

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I received this email today. Nice guy. I spent an hour looking for someone online. If anyone has a suggestion, I'm open to it. Not sure I can do that much at my stage of life and with a speech impediment but I'll try.

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Dear Mr. Esterdahl,

I was in the broadcast industry for 25+ years in radio & television and worked in technical, production, and on-air fields. I used to teach talk radio. I enjoy your channel and your enthusiasm for the subject matter.

If, as a professional, I could offer a little advice (that is worth exactly what you paid for it), it would be to work on your diction. Your speech could be more clearly enunciated. You tend to mumble/slur/abbreviate words with varying intensity. I would practice pretending to be an announcer. As painful as it is, self-checking your audio while you're editing is always a good idea. A good way to check your enunciation is to run up YT playback to 2x speed and see if your speech is easy to understand. Properly enunciated speech should be perfectly intelligible at 2x. If it isn't, it needs work.

Sometimes using audio "gating" in software will accentuate problems. Audio "gating" is where audio editing software is told to minimize or ignore levels below a certain preset threshold and this can result in the ends of words being attenuated or cut off. Typically this would be used to reduce unwanted background noise but can have undesired effects if set too aggressively.

Anyway, I enjoy the channel and I'm just trying to be helpful. Keep up the good work :)

-j
 
Well, like anything, what you put in is what you get out. If you are satisfied with where you are then great, keep going as you have been. If you feel this would drastically increase your business, pursue it. There may be sources that you can engage that would do evaluations on your speaking and give professional advice helping you to come to that decision. That commenter was one, but it would be ideal to find another. And of course, the final piece is ROI. Will it be worth the cost and effort?
 
I don't have a problem with it, but I do notice it. I don't mind the abbreviations or speed at all. I notice the misplacement of a word, or struggling to come up with the word, but I've always written that off to excitement or you being in a hurry. My take has been that your brain has ideas quicker than your mouth can get them out lol. I'm similar.
 
You know how bad my enunciation is from that awful video I sent years ago. If you are concerned about your speech, I will suggest that you sing to yourself before you start recording.

Yes it's weird but you breath different when you sing and you can carry it over to talking. Slow chanting works too.

But being me, I understand you perfectly. (Just don't eat a box of party mints and wash it down with a 2 liter of Ginger ale. It's like speed talking.
 
Saddle Tramp said:
You know how bad my enunciation is from that awful video I sent years ago. If you are concerned about your speech, I will suggest that you sing to yourself before you start recording.

Yes it's weird but you breath different when you sing and you can carry it over to talking. Slow chanting works too.

But being me, I understand you perfectly. (Just don't eat a box of party mints and wash it down with a 2 liter of Ginger ale. It's like speed talking.
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yes, agreed. Singing, there have been people in history that stutter when talking but never when singing. Seems strange, but it is true.
 
We’re all Tim fans here, supporting the person, content and format we like. The opinions that matter most are the next 118k subscribers that aren’t chiming in, because they aren’t here.

Ultimately, Tim is a professional. He is very concerned about the accuracy and quality of his content, and for some viewers and listeners this matters. I notice I can understand him more clearly with my ear buds in, than over the speakers in my truck.

On another podcast, Roman and Nathan are a couple of guys I would probably enjoy hanging out talking trucks with, but I no longer listen to either of them because they are so scattered brained and interrupt Andre’ so much it completely ruins the podcast. There are so many TFL podcasts that are titled one thing, and as Andre’ tries to talk about the topic, Roman or (in the past) Nathan interrupt him so much he never covers the topic. I remember one podcast that was supposed to be about Ford trucks but was 90% about EVs. I know this thread isn’t about Tim getting off topic, but it is about how a polite professional offered Tim advice about how to up his game, and probably expand his business in the process.

Regarding ROI, sometimes the time lost to learn a new skill or technique is repaid exponentially over the initial investment. Does he want his business limited to a middle American audience of native English speakers, or would he like to pickup some business from international viewers and listeners from the British Commonwealth or from people who speak English as a second language?

I’ve paid people to coach me in skills I am highly proficient in, and unlearning and relearning a technique is annoying while I am doing it, but rewarding when it becomes second nature and I perform at a level I was never able to reach before coaching. I’d like to see Tim hit 1M subscribers.
 
kd70qc said:
We’re all Tim fans here, supporting the person, content and format we like. The opinions that matter most are the next 118k subscribers that aren’t chiming in, because they aren’t here.

Ultimately, Tim is a professional. He is very concerned about the accuracy and quality of his content, and for some viewers and listeners this matters. I notice I can understand him more clearly with my ear buds in, than over the speakers in my truck.

On another podcast, Roman and Nathan are a couple of guys I would probably enjoy hanging out talking trucks with, but I no longer listen to either of them because they are so scattered brained and interrupt Andre’ so much it completely ruins the podcast. There are so many TFL podcasts that are titled one thing, and as Andre’ tries to talk about the topic, Roman or (in the past) Nathan interrupt him so much he never covers the topic. I remember one podcast that was supposed to be about Ford trucks but was 90% about EVs. I know this thread isn’t about Tim getting off topic, but it is about how a polite professional offered Tim advice about how to up his game, and probably expand his business in the process.

Regarding ROI, sometimes the time lost to learn a new skill or technique is repaid exponentially over the initial investment. Does he want his business limited to a middle American audience of native English speakers, or would he like to pickup some business from international viewers and listeners from the British Commonwealth or from people who speak English as a second language?

I’ve paid people to coach me in skills I am highly proficient in, and unlearning and relearning a technique is annoying while I am doing it, but rewarding when it becomes second nature and I perform at a level I was never able to reach before coaching. I’d like to see Tim hit 1M subscribers.
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Hard agree about Roman, I had to stop listening to the truck podcast after Nathan departed. Roman is annoying and keeps ranting and interrupting and seems to be mostly wrong about the stuff he complains about. He has a hard time accepting that EV's are not for everybody and that the cybertruck as he himself describes it, is a good suv and a terrible truck.
 
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