0633 – Other Voice Skills: Adlibs, Cold Reading and Talking To Time

2022.09.25 – 0633 – Other Voice Skills: Adlibs, Cold Reading and Talking To Time

OTHER SPEAKING SKILLS

An alphabetical list of other conversational considerations, from ad-libs to coping with verbal slips, filler words and fluffs… and a few hot takes on cold-reading.

Ad-libbing

This is what you say off the top of your head without a script, and is another good skill for any broadcaster or podcaster to have – although voice-over actors will of course have little use for it as they are mainly working from a script.

Ad-libbing doesn’t mean that you record ‘naked’, just riffing and adlibbing until a coherent thought happens to leave your lips (as I once described as “talking until you’ve something interesting to say”!), you prepare first so you know you have something to say and know the best way to say it.

Obviously, you can only ad-lib around a topic if you know a bit about it in the first place. Not the detail necessarily but the context, for example why are you covering it in the show or podcast to start with? What is its relevance? Who will it effect and why and how? If you understand its significance, you’ll be able to communicate the story more easily and be able to ad lib around it should you need to. 

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