I now hear little girls copying their mums, speaking in vocal fry, and thats sad. Its like special effects in cinema: theyre not special anymore if a movie is 90% special effects. Tripp, I agree completely. If you really sit down and read every word its a fascinating phenomenon. You guys seems to be winning in the USA, so if it bothers you, Im afraid youre out of luck. While for many VO artists, like you and me, we strive to have a more refined and adjusted voice, that is more pleasing to the ear, I do find that in general media such as TV, film and especially commercials, the prevalence of this is a reflection of the prevalence found in the general population. For example, Im from the southeastern USA. Yet many here dont seem to question their own speech patterns or prejudices. An awful conversational bridge. Ive pointed out the mistake to my grandchildren who acknowledge the correction but later continue to say me and him. Even more annoying is the public speakers misuing the pronouns. AAHHH!!! I feel more rested? As a result, many teachers stopped teaching it. AND.. hitting the G in words too hard I.E. NPR has always kept American dialects and accents out of their reporting, but Vally-Girl seems to be OK. People are suddenly emphasizing the wrong syllable in words that end in dent. These are examples of bad grammar, mispronounced words, and slang. Our language is being bastardised for their own purpose, throat fry, non-pronunciation, just being annoying. I dont claim to speak perfect English but these are things every child learns in grade school. She suddenly realizes she slipped into AAVE for a few words because we were speaking casually. Several years ago, feminist author Naomi Wolf suggested vocal fry among young women was causing them to "disown their own power.". I refuse point blank to allow anyone to communicate with me other than within the acceptable parameters of good spoken and written English i.e. Hearing fingernails down a blackboard couldnt be more excruciating than vocal fry, and the stress I experience when not being able to tell the person doing it to stop it is hard to deal with. But I find it truly obnoxious that every other sentence (or more) begins with the word Look. When he was starting out, he found editors "strip[ping] away [his] character" by removing vernacular and colloquialisms that felt unique to him. I have also noticed when people use a hard g instead of a soft or silent g in many words. I honestly want to slap the crap out of people who super abuse the word super! But what to do with them then? There are a lot of great voices too though. A sentence in which one says nothing: I knooow! As opposed to what? Thanks for a place to vent. Oh, and yes, I know I left off many other annoying speech patterns. Another big offender is the reality tv show, e.g. Why not just be brave and make a direct statement without the sort of timidity? Socially, or even professionally, person to person, I dont let them bother me too much. At least we can take comfort knowing that some of these annoying fillers indeed die out eventually. What brought me here was the irritating way young females pronounce thank you. I relate to it now as it is the absolutely worst thing ever and the commercial uses the cymbals to change it into some great thing, which it is not. National faves: Jack Speer, Megna Chakhrabarti, Terry Gross National do-not-calls: Kai Ryssdal, Charlie Pierce sunnymentoaddict 6 yr. ago As Ted brought up a few posts up: the ubiquitous use of the words sort of by media drives me nuts! Agreed, Paula. If, however, its something that is correctable, I would like to know how, (NOT to be more pleasing or acceptible to him), so that I might be less annoying to more diplomatic persons like yourself . I dont know how these people get voice over jobs and why anyone would use them. Its a virus spreading. Initially I read your comment as a knock on the Canadian pronunciation of sorry. For some people, its their dominant speech pattern and they seemingly cant escape it. I dont buy the argument that this is an empowering trend for women. Literally, actually, etc. It isnt just a curved exclamation point. Kind of (or sort of) This tidbit is used anywhere in the middle, as a way to not say what you really mean. Very annoying. Ive had to stop watching MSNBC, because Rachel Maddow lards her hour with the use of right. Worse is Chris Hayes, who doesnt even use right properly! Do you experience this as an interviewer? The voices on NPR are more diverse than ever. Anyone who wishes to sound like an idiot is well within his or her rights to do so. It feels like they want attention, or something else, from us and are using what they think are caressing tones. The power of live radio, after all, is that it's live. Sheesh. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Fly them in and leave them in the outback. ", In the ensuing #PubRadioVoice conversation, now-host of Weekend Edition Sunday Lulu Garcia-Navarro tweeted about a similar experience. Thats the main reason why most adults eventually decide its in their best interests to lose the bad habits. thank you again for such a thoughtful response. While it may not be pleasing to US, it may be a more recognizable and standard sound to those who are currently hiring VO talent, or even on-camera talent. Ive been trying to find what this is called online, and not having any luck. culture that (IMO) is ruining our educational system. We dont really distinguish the middle short e and middle short I in speech. (My wife thinks I am. ) https://t.co/7p2fxbZTAN. Adding an additional, unnecessary syllable to certain words for emphasis: no becomes no-ah and hello turns into hello-ah.. as though the speaker just had to get rid of that extra bit of air, and vocalize it. Can you tell the audience exactly to what you are referring in your immediately preceding use of the word space? 'Planet money,' 'This American Life,' 'Radiolab,' 'Startup' Why? So, I woke uuuuup. And I say this from a professional point of view. Vocal fry is the most annoying thing on the planet to me. This seems to be a dialect issue primarily in the U.S. South, but the writing implement pen is pronounced pin, as the number ten is pronounced tin!. At work, I am surrounded by intelligent and well-educated women in their 20s to 40s who speak this way. Ayesha Rascoe is involved in most of the National Public Radio programs. So So, youll also find this one at the beginning of a sentence, namely as a way to manage the conversation and sound fairly authoritative (or condescending). Absolutely! THAT is annoying. Many people ARE taking advantage of the hot weather. Radio wouldn't have the same energy or be able to cover breaking news if every second was scripted. Its on Noom commercials, too. I am Jack and this? My dad was from Canada of English heritage. The education system. LITERALLY no one? Other specialties include female narration voice overs for corporate narration, web videos, tutorials, explainer videos and technical medical narration. Its easy to overlook poor speech when an attractive face is delivering the information. If I am in another room from the TV and a female news anchor is speaking, it seems all I can hear are explosive ah and eh sounds. Ek-specially, think-yewwwuh and using individual instead of person are three of my current annoyance triggers. I felt as though I learned something today. He told me: That is a sign that I've opened them up, they feel comfortable and they're talking in the way that they just regularly talk. But its when I hear someone who has the astonishing ability to combine those two very irritating trends, as well as throwing in the recent social media driven pointless inane phrases so; I feel like, OMG! etc, that I terminate my involvement in the conversation immediately. Please, lets stop hiring these dudes who are stuck in their own head trying to sound and trick us believing they are something they are not. A lazy speech habit that grates on my nerves is the use of Also too. Speaking to Terry Gross on Fresh Air, linguist Penny Eckert described a preliminary study she conducted that asked participants to listen to two clips one with creak and one without. Unfortunately the word, the shouting and the angry demeanor are now used by many standup comedians in place of jokes. Dont run into nobody! (a parent to a child) Lets not forget the increasingly common tyoo in lieu of two, to, or too. I growl at it when I hear it. First, they sound like they are pedaling up a hill. Its kinda crazy, right? The author ends a sentence that I assume was not a quote of someone else, with these words; Sportscasters use it, friends use it in convos, but uh, hey, whats wrong with that? Endlessly irritating to me and I agree, it does sound affected. I work for a large tech company in the SF Bay Area and I can attest that uptalk, unfortunately, is more pervasive than ever. I understand some countries use to instead of from, and I dont know if thats longstanding or new. The t sound is there; the enunciation is just very soft, almost swallowed, because the word is split into syllables in a different place than whats proper. While I agree that its a lazy way of speaking, its probably more a regional speech pattern than anything else. Ken, can you give some examples regarding Dr. Ford? These little speech micro trends seem to pop up every now and then, then fade away over time (thank God!). All this said, very few reporters or hosts speak on air exactly as they do in person. As a young woman who sometimes subconsciously dips into this lower vocal register, I don't even notice when radio reporters speak with vocal fry. It may have been the one I just quoted. They read out various super-chats & live comments, chat about various media happenings, but one host, Francis Foster (they are both stand up comedians too) repeatedly says absolutely in response to everything. Also, why has everyone started turning ts to ds. hide caption. Theres another pronunciation of words that drive me to distractionor in this case I should say diSHtraction. NPR must be making a conscious decision to allow all of this. Duffin said she notices if she sounds "too throaty or gravely" while recording. After she appeared live on Morning Edition for the first time, she received a detailed email from a listener, urging her to stop using filler words. Would my friends laugh if I developed the chirpy voice? In another, speakers with vocal fry received more votes in a hypothetical election. The sad part about the first phrase (Uh, hello.everyone knows the Earth is round) is that anyone has to even say it at all in the 21st century. It seems to me that the average persons way of communicating has become more casual in professional situations because it has become taboo to correct others in academic settings. Listening to NPR is what got this whole thing started a few years back But now these patterns are showing up everywhere. Please. Valspeak is, like, short for the way Valley Girls talk that was, like, you know, so big Frank Zappa sang about it in 1982. The overuse of a particular swear word is also annoying. For me, its the high-pitched, pinched, nasal voice that sounds so flat and grating from women on TV. I understand these may be hip ways of speaking these days , but they actually detract from the message. For example i had a really busy day today.. Other times I believe people fall into a speech pattern comfortable to them without questioning the outcomes of or reactions to their words, phrasing & delivery. Im so glad someone has identified moronic speech that has gone from thoughtful Well,. to the contrary So, as if theyre indicating a confirmation summation that theirs is the correction of an issue. I blame social media and non-parenting. Wait, what is the worst, because it pretends to be clever and original, and is the polar opposite of both. Listen out for it ; itll shock you just how common it is! Speaking to NPR's Code Switch on his thoughts, he said, "Without being directly told, people like me learn that our way of speaking isn't professional, and you start to imitate the standard or even hide the distinctive features of your own voice. More common, is hearing someone speak with various combinations of several of these patterns appearing in just one sentence! Hansen earned her MFA in Acting from Brandeis University, and has additionally studied in New York and France, at the Guthrie Theatre, and at Studio Theatre Conservatory. not pronounce the actual vowel, but rather make it the aaaaah sound. I cant get used it but somehow I must figure out how to do it or Ill never be able to chill with my great grand children. I could go no for ages but two of them fucked my life up, so I hate them all. The number one ear-bleeding one is shtraight down the shtreet there are theesh trees and a shtop shign. Many men do this also, although its usually not as noticeable as creaky voice in women, because mens voice are deeper to begin with so the pitch drop doesnt contrast as much with their normal pitch/phonation. And that show was probably a 5 year old rerun. If something is different from something else, from is the only word that works. Misnomer is now used when what is really meant is misconception. These are two different words with different meanings. You hear it I. interviews with British movies stars. But when used in television, radio, or print, I boil uncontrollably. A question mark has a specific purpose in the English language. Perhaps its an attempt to prevent them from rushing their sentences. Perhaps its self-importance driving the habit. Beyond annoying. One thing journalists I spoke to said: They're real people and they'd like to sound real too. Its as if speakers dont care whether their grammar is correct. Help. The staccato, fry voices makes me hit the mute button. Her words hold me hostage. But instead it sounds like I went to the STOre, then the gas STAtion, and then got something to EAT.. For everyone posting examples of patterns, if its possible to include a link to a Youtube video that illustrates the example, that would really help everyone know exactly what you are talking about. Its usually when someone is trying to express exasperation or frustration-uh. She pointed out that Ira Glass, the host of This American Life who has an iconic radio voice, uses a lot of vocal fry. Mark, your comments are very well spoken, and I also consider language and ones command and understanding of it to be a sign of class and proper education. In Australia we get really annoyed with well spoken presenters on TV pronouncing t as d, eg very impordant and cute kidden. It makes these women sound like spoiled little girls who are accustomed to getting things their own way, and you better expect a tantrum if they dont get what they want. My god, every single female and some of the males end every sentence like its a question. I understand that enunciation is a part of the job they do, but to over pronounce a word by adding an extra vowel does not sharpen the words; it dulls the wit. Im like my husband uses it for every single thing. Thanks for any suggestions. Since I watch a lot of network tv, I hear this and other abominations on commercials, especially. Ive heard narrators doing it on youtube videos. I forgot about another sentence I hate, Hell start a sentence, but then even before he gets to the part that he wants to bully you into agreeing with, hell stick in a right?! its there, though much less pronounced (sic.). I think theres a time and place, but certainly the workplace is not the place. Im going out on a limb and saying they use it because it is something definitive in their conversation. What I notice is the use of Well, before almost every response by news panelists. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. Even if the people indulging in these patterns have an incredibly high IQ, the patterns work against them by making them: Despite all the detriments of allowingthose patterns to unconsciously creep into your own conversational lexicon, people are falling prey at rapid rates. Ive noticed the upward shift in tone can be as much as an octave. For more information, please see our Every sentence is spoken as a question, whether it is or not. I didnt know there was a word for that! In the series Heartland, it is practically half of the dialog. The sad thing about podcasters is that they have not taken any diction or public speaking classes. Ira Glass has a speech pattern whereby he voices extremely fast bursts of words, and then leaves a space. To add to the I mean, is .I feel like, I have the pleasure of working with some folks that include these in every single spoken sentence. I am also a teacher and am perplexed by the lack of vocabulary and sloppy use of language that I hear every day, everywhere, and by many! Youre not crotchety. Watch ANY interview with a woman and they do this. I found this sight because I searched to see if I was the only one annoyed by sentences starting with So , which I find very annoying. Auto-formatting removed the numerous spaces between the words in my last sentence, rendering the example less than illustrative. Every second word she spoke that ended in a consonant had that ah at the end of it. Im old, so I can state authoritatively that most on this list of annoying speech habits have been around for a long time, in fact as long as I can remember. And also SORREY, instead of saying sorry Public radio should mean that all voices, relaying solid reporting, are respected enough to inform the country. I had to go to the stoooore, pick up the dry cleaniiiiiing, get some grocerrrrrriiiies, walk the doooooooog. etc. OMG! "That's why you listen it's to hear people talk," Fortir said. This listing or auctioneer way of speaking is an affectation from vlogs. Thats litteriiiiing, and he just kept walkiiiiing That isnt exactly it, but its similar. It really became a battle of negative personalities in a race to the bottom of common decency.. Thatsaid when I want to pause, shake my head a little & say Wait, what?. I appreciate your attention to the proper usage of the English, especially since its NOT your native language, and the respect you hold for it. But in between this & because Im bored at home, they do something called a live stream, which I didnt usually watch. Different than makes no sense. dontgetaphd 6 mo. They also do this in Germany, quite memorably. I wonder if its the education system, or perhaps social media or television. Sam Sanders, host of It's Been a Minute, said that learning to write in his own voice was difficult. She has a distinctively black accent and is a favorite voice on NPR. Duffin said voice critiques don't bother her personally but that she worries they limit who feels welcome on the air. My current favorite is folks who add the word literally to every statement. Of course, that is a feeling that non-white, non-male, non-midwesterners have felt for most of the history of broadcasting. Also not pronouncing a t in a word. The letters arent required to be immediately next to each other, as in hiSHtoRy, either. Uptalk at ?s. If I hear this on TV I change the channel. Great article. My husband listens to a lot of podcasts, particularly enjoying them while out driving or working in the yard. Can you tell the audience She has taught throughout the Washington metropolitan area, including the Duke Ellington School of the Arts and American University. I just do not understand why voice overs must be so impersonal and what the show producer clearly sees as professional or some kind of the standard tone. Of course, once he shared them with me,I started hearing them, too. Some words are not meant to have all the letters pronounced. My aversion to imbecile-generated sounds has made me reconsider certain career paths. airlines. The staccato, infantile voices of the most cultured, educated, experienced, expert young women must have some scientific basis. Real News Host: You used the term space repeatedly. I also wish we could deny medical service to anyone who refused to wear a mask and then contracted Covid-19. How do these people even get the job? Not long in to our conversations, Ive tuned out. This is teh dropping of the letter g at the end of ing words, ie: singin goin droppin etc. Producers, who listen while reporters record their scripts, are alert for issues with speed and clarity, and will ask reporters to try again if necessary. infomercial voice overs and direct response marketing, Voice Over Trends 2023: Less Looking, More Listening, Is the Golden Age of Voice Over Gone? One day Im sure Ill lose my job after losing my temper with a patient. I just heard a lady doing a commercial on TV who pronounced entertainment as intertainment. I think, that new forms of expression are good because language is alive and new inventions created new vocabulary as well. One study found that young women with vocal fry were perceived as less competent and trustworthy. And who started everything being super??? Unlike appearing simply one of the collective in using URGE, ENCOURAGE and SUGGEST which is a translation in beta male language, because we hate patriarchies, especially white ones, we can with ABSOLUTELY step past that level of making an indicator by laying the hammer on the anvil. Back in the day you would be fired for delivering news that way. watch a MOvie, read a BOok, eat a COOkie, Ooops! The biggest one that I hear it in is when celebrities say singer. I hope youll be disturbed too. But yes now every venture capitalist, techie and aspiring TED talker has a pseudo-self-effacing way of speaking using right and sort ofsoooooo annoying! I am sick of cymbals that end a commercial etc. While he generally wants to be playful on his show, he said he's since tried to be more sensitive to when subjects require serious delivery. I hear it on NPR a lot. "We ought to be able to hear all of that in the voices that the audience is hearing, whether that voice is the voice of somebody in a community somewhere in the middle of the country or that voice is the voice of a host or reporter for NPR. She doesn't mind sounding human. After she pointed this out to me, I hear an appalling number of people that half hiss/lisp when they speak on reputable news programs. It is so rehearsed and not natural. Ayesha Rascoe is an American journalist for NPR famous for her accent and distinctive voice for news delivery. My fifteen year old son frequently accuses me of picking on him for the way he speaks/writes. The interior is super soft leather!. Thank you for helping me put a name to this! Thanks to ALL recent commenters for reading and sharing your thoughts on this topic. After Sanders and his panelists discussed a mysterious case of American diplomats in Cuba suffering from a possibly psychosomatic illness, listeners wrote that his tone had been too light-hearted for a serious subject. 2) pumped and stoked for excited The one thats driving me crazy is this extra schwa added to the ends of words. That authenticity is key to NPR's original mission to "celebrate the human experience as infinitely varied." I must be getting old, I sound like my parents. An overheard conversation: The other day I was walkiiiiiing, and, like, this dude flicked a cigarette butt on the graaa-ound, and I said, hey! Yes, I found this site while searching for Stephen Dubner annoying speech pattern. I mean This completely unnecessary phrase seems to just be a habitual way to start sentences for many people. Theres a name for it, but I cant remember what its called. When I meet a person under the age of 40 who does not speak in this manner, I am surprised and delighted, and will go out of my way to let them know how much I appreciate their ability to communicate properly. Being a voice-over talent makes me extremely sensitive to not only the sound of voices I hear on TV, radio and the internet, but also to the words that are chosen. As far as voice sounds, I do hear vocal fry on occasion and I notice men do it as well as women but women are more often chastised for it. I think its an attempt to sound more confident, self-assured and forceful. In the U.S., though, the phrase is different from. When I hear than, I want to scream. Plus, at the end of the day. Also the northeastern dis, dat, dem and does for this, that, them and those. Now, once in a while I see the dramatic purpose of such a structure, but every dang time, every single dialogue. ARGH!!!! Noticably used televangelist pastors and political speeches. There are several blogs online, written by women who think society needs to stop being critical of their way of talking; i.e. You and me both. Sort of and right came right out of Britain. No more changing anything. New Hampshire Public Radio and the Warren B. Rudman Center were proud to welcome NPR White House Correspondent Ayesha Rascoe as the next speaker in our Justi. Its mildly disturbing to me. The Kardashions, though not typical, offer a great example of many of these trending patterns. I dont consider it thoughtful because the next word follows immediately. And please read through the comments for some very interesting insights and observations from other readers. For example: None of these up-and-coming phrases ever appear in scripts that I read for actual voice-over jobs or auditions. Its done a lot in the German language, too (which makes sense, if you think about it). 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