0428 – The Speed Of The Read – A Summary

2022.03.04 – 0428 – The Speed Of The Read – A Summary

And that’s the challenge: to maintain clarity and inflection throughout the script.

“Sometimes the most powerful sound in stories is a lack of sound, or a pause, or a silence, or a cadence of the way we speak in person that you can't really get when you're reading print. You hear that in your mind, but you don't really know how it's intended to sound. So, I think there's a musicality to audio storytelling that gives it also a little bit of an advantage over just watching something that has visuals and audio and also just reading something on the page.”

Julie Shapiro, Executive Producer of Radiotopia from PRX[1]

And those are our paragraphs on the power of the pause.

Now, is it time for you to start giving someone ‘the silent treatment’?

[1] Interview with Tamar Charney, NPR, on “The Power of Digital Audio Storytelling: From Podcasts to Voice Assistants” webinar series, Knight Centre.

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