Omg YES!! 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! The one Ive noticed the most lately is the one mentioned by Mary N. And of course the extremely annoying vocal fry. If reporters find that their voices are "tired," reducing vocal fry might be one way to help. No-uh. EVERY FRICKIN interview has yeah yeah yeah!, more and more in the past 6 or so months. The marketing profession is an enemy to communicationmuch like the buzzspeak in 1984. It was made popular by chef Gordon Ramsden. There are some new kids on the block this year: In these trying times. If I hear this on TV I change the channel. I growl at every inflected, high rising, ramble sometimes eliciting concerned looks from family members. Sam Sanders, host of NPR's It's Been A Minute, records a segment at NPR West on September 24, 2018. To me, thats like criticising someone who stutters, besides being a tool to stonewall me. We do a lot of VO recording work with China in particular in teaching English to school children, and are careful to provide proper grammar and usage in that regard. Then on the other extreme we have ABSOLUTELY. Its like special effects in cinema: theyre not special anymore if a movie is 90% special effects. I felt as though I learned something today. She dragged out the word and pitched it higher. I meant in first person plural. [sheepish grin], Lets not forget the verbal infestation known as seriously. Clearly, it morphed perhaps by laziness from Are you serious [about]?, 1) I call it the shopping list speech pattern: I went to the store and bought some EGGS.. got some MILK and some BACON Is there not an audio producer charged with asking the reporters to speak with more maturity and confidence? Its just annoying affectation and you KNOW they know better but they think it is adding something. Also, the millennial kid who is fd in the head trying to sound so sophisticated, like he is an expert at everything and demeaning to everyone. Ive noticed the inflection is often followed by movement, such as a slight head tilt, nod, hands, or shift of the eyes, presumably as an emphasis. She, indeed, speaks in a style you typically don't hear on serious news channels which NPR is special for . No statement can ever, ever stand on its own without an intensifier. And I give a slight nod to the d in Wednesday. I immediately have to fast forward, which defeats the whole purpose of advertising. Great discussion on these affectations of speech, thank you. What about the most recent one where you say structure with a glottal g/sh that sounds like struh-sherr? I thought it must be a local thing. He joins us. Excellent analysis!!! 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. Jessica Hansen has one of the most annoying deliveries I can ever recall hearing from an announcernot only on NPR, but in the world of broadcasting. I think its rather sad. Ive seen it theorized elsewhere that it began as an AAVE regional thing, cant remember which region, that just spread. I find this is a topic worth discussing in a public forum, not to berate anyone for their colloquial style of speaking, but to intelligently address the issues with poor speech. These are commentators, announcers, and reporters!! Other reporters hone their delivery as well. Hayes, you say right?, but how do I know whether I agree with you or not until you actually make the statement?. What I was really searching for is the new pattern that my daughter seems..touse. I first noticed it when Joanna Gains talked and now I notice it everywhere. Basically, many people, young people and more often women, will take a short vowel sound and make it a schwa sound ie. In addition, Ayesha is really the smartest and most inspiring reporter in Washington D.C. and speaks with an African-American Vernacular English accent while reporting. For example, instead of saying No they say NoUH. ago Agree, I have shuddered more than once when she consistently uses mildly incorrect grammar. The over use of the word like doesnt bother me too much. Objective reality, for some folks, must be something that just happens to others. They have this childish high pitched baby voice and its like stabbing my ears with bamboo skewers. This occurs a lot when listing items. And, forward, in all forms unless someone is moving or driving an object ahead of them. I love this discussion! Sam Sanders, host of It's Been a Minute, said that learning to write in his own voice was difficult. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Debbie Grattan is a top-rated professional female voice over talent with more than 25 years of experience delivering voice over services worldwide. Nails on a chalkboard to me. Their thinking is that they are being fake if they change up. Another more recent pattern I hear most often by women is speaking in the low register of their voice. I would agree, that often, any form of critique, even for improvement in future and in business, is often dismissed, misplaced, and scoffed at by a younger generation that has grown up with a trophy for participation for anything they do, and often getting passing grades and remarks to send them on, without actually teaching them how to LEARN and QUESTION things. The T-dropping is especially irritating because it sounds like something a very young kid would do and I HATE when adults talk like toddlers. If you ask me again, Id also predict the tide will turn and people who drop these phrases will come out on top in the long run. -aahh to extend words. 2) Adding Sh sound to words starting with ST, as mentioned in earlier comment. If none of you engage in such things, youre likely guilty of the offense that led me to search for endless monotone monologue of older Americans. It can make engaging topics so boring, it makes death enticing. 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. But Glass said in that episode that he never hears about his. Just stop! Why, just why? It hurts my ears! Ah. Filler words mean people are thinking in the moment, he added. Or adding the wrong vowels to words for instance making the word food sound more like fewd. But among friends all the time. Youre not crotchety. A study in 2014 found that although vocal fry, whether used by men or . My current pet hate is the need for the speaker to promise to tell the truth as in To be honest, or Im not gonna lie, and then proceeds to reveal some piece of bland trivia! I can focus and absorb what they are saying so much more easily. 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. So many people cannot do it. Pretty much everywhere to enunciate the ts in button is not correct. Its like the art of cursive, or long hand writing, which has also become a relic of the past for so many. This is certainly not limited to lower social groups; its becoming endemic in very educated middle class professionals. Personally, I have a laundry list of poor speech and grammar pet peeves. 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. Tomorrow WILL be a hot day or or common mispronunciation: Realtor, not Real a tor. Keith Woods, NPR's vice president of newsroom training and diversity, told me that a variety of voices is one way to achieve greater journalistic truth. It makes my skin crawl, when people say are, when it is PRONOUNCED, OUR!!! The whiny and drawn-out words, how can I cite an example? Anyone who wishes to sound like an idiot is well within his or her rights to do so. Its not cute. This cymbal sound bite, arent event how a professional drummer would play, or maybe would not immediately make this sound unless the cymbals were damaged somehow. None of these up-and-coming phrases ever appear in scripts that I read for actual voice-over jobs or auditions. NPR has always kept American dialects and accents out of their reporting, but Vally-Girl seems to be OK. Ive recently heard this from an organic drink company: However you healthy., Another, from a vitamin supplement company: Want to brain better?. 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. She has been a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild since 2005. Based on a 2010 NPR Music survey of its listeners * Missing: Mohammad-Reza Shajarian * Ahmad Zahir * Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan * Asha Bhosle * Esma Redzepova * Sezen Aksu * Dennis Brown * Radmilla Cody * Khaled * Twinkie Clark * Amalia Rodrigues * Concha Buika * Chavela Vargas * Camaron de la Isla It's BS. Lets not forget the increasingly common tyoo in lieu of two, to, or too. Speech patterns seem to trend quite quickly. Using it as a string of bullet points makes the writer sound illiterate. context or discernible link to the discussion. For example, when they pronounce the word eight they say eigh-tah just pronouncing the last letter. What are they like. Soft, gentle words rising to hard, forceful preaching, followed by applause and cheering! Absolutely! I have to tune her out because I cant stand to listen to her talk. Oh, and yes, I know I left off many other annoying speech patterns. I don't think the latter is our goal.". Im not trying to be critical or mean, but it used to be if you had a speech impediment, you went to speech therapy and got rid of it before you went on public media. Please try to make your reports professional. That happened to Mike Cooper, a voice-over artist who recently stumbled upon his voice being used without his knowledge for AI. Lisa P. hit the nail on the head. Am I alone in this? There are several blogs online, written by women who think society needs to stop being critical of their way of talking; i.e. Either Feb-roo-ary or Feb-yoo-ary is acceptable. I have asked you not to do that! I say something, along the lines of, Thats one way to ensure I dont talk; you dont have to listen to me. Then, I walk away seething, and loathing him more and more. We all have a few annoying speech/writing habits.). I mean, where did this one come from anyway? It totally baffles me. Thank you for a great opportunity to express & learn. FIGURATIVELY no one? Watch ANY interview with a woman and they do this. Quickly. OH YES! Theuse of such patterns do more than annoy the listener. 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. The broadcasters at a local TV newsroom think that sentences end with three periods. I heard one person this past weekend start literally every response with, Look. It seems all females under age 35 speak this way. This segment aired on February 27, 2023. Young women of all nationalities reporting from the most secluded parts of the world use these odd tones, rhythms and inflections. One person in particular uses a combination of vocal fry (at times), saying so at the end of sentences, using upspeak, AND drawing words out (I guess while thinking of what to say). Many shop assistants think they are being kind referring to me as Sweetheart or Hun. She found that people over 40 heard the utterance without any creak as more authoritative, while people under 40 found both clips authoritative. She has performed in television, film, stage, voiceovers, and commercials. Its rampant. One listener from Massachusetts wrote: "We are writing to express our concern about the prevalence of the vocal fry affectation adopted by too many of your broadcast correspondents. Its bad enough to hear it in speech but I recently received an email that began with these words. The point is not worth discussing because of what was just said. Also, old hardly known by an average individual, words, which are being now widely used. Hey, buddy if you dont stop telling me to look, Ill just have to decline to listen. As in, those are quite some radishes you have there. It seems to be quite common as I hear quite some people using it. Good to know I am not the only person being annoyed by the way women robot-speak to the latest trend. In the memo obtained by Current, Eric Nuzum, NPR's VP of programming, wrote, "You may have noticed a new voice reading some NPR sponsorship credits in January. 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. Has anyone experienced this verbal hostage taking? This post has garnered SO many comments like yours, so hopefully, you will feel vindicated that you arent the only one hearing and being frustrated by these things. I cannot remember any time that the person uttering that delusional phrase wasnt in political arts.. If he catches that he's saying "you know" a lot, he'll try to cut down on using it. I thought I was being a stodgy Gen Xer in feeling profound contempt for these news pundits on CNN and MSNBC I just keep yelling at my TV: you sound like a moron! Theyre clearly not morons though many are well-educated and very smart but when they say right? and start a sentence with so they sound like idiots. I mean, if it really was a problem that I say that phrase whenever Im trying to make my point, what difference does it make? Whatever! Britain? Person 1: What is your viewpoint on the plight of South African farmers? So annoying. Im not sure if this was mentioned, but it seems to be an epidemic to list things and use the same pitch patterns ( high, medium, then lower). Perhaps its an attempt to prevent them from rushing their sentences. But we especially hear about the tone and timbre of reporters' voices. And lets not ignore the disproportionate amount of times speech pattern analysis (even here, in this comment section) is essentially just an excuse to satisfy a societal itch to hate things that are trending amongst young women. I wondered if I was alone in my discomfort. Hansen coaches voice for NPR, corporate groups, professional theater companies, podcast hosts, journalists, and private clients nationwide. Further, it seems that engaging in these practices seems to indicate a greater authenticity for Gen Z and Millennials. Who started that? Interviewer asks, Why is the current focus on companies like Exxon?, Young woman interviewee: Yeah, so Exxon is a high-profile, Mostly, young women seem to do this. The one voice that NPR does have on hand that presents a good marriage of youthful freshness and traditional diction while remaining pleasing and understandable is David Greene, currently on Morning Edition. Ironically, the girl in the last video does vocal fry throughout (I managed less than a minute of the video). Does that mean that Aussies and New Zealanders are not sure of themselves? I growl at it when I hear it. I agree with all the comments. Im not sure if our primary education system is to blame for not putting enough emphasis on the spoken (or written) word for our younger generations, or whether it is more of a socialization and modeling of behavior that is rampant. Its definitely annoying! Can I just start by saying that two very annoying vocal trends that have reached us here in the UK / Northern Ireland in recent years are up speaking and vocal fry, which are bad enough on their own. She doesn't mind sounding human. 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. I am a white dude on the radio, and no one has EVER tweeted at me critiquing my voice. It irritates me to see UR instead of you are or switched RU ,are you? But it sends up sounding so unintelligent and gutless. This past year has seemed a bit empty at times when social isolation has become the new normal. Stop talking like that!. 2% comes from Federal grants from the commerce department otherwise there is no direct federal funding. or: This listing or auctioneer way of speaking is an affectation from vlogs. It wasnt just that the election campaign this year was ugly, right? Cookie Notice "It's so quintessential to his delivery." ish instead of pronouncing it as iz. It is irritating. I agree though, like the tattoo girl on the Twix commercial that spells NO REGERTS and then says Sawree in that whiny sarcastic voice. I, too, pronounce both r s in February. I simply changed the channel on my tv. But I have to make one addendum to the use of right? (a word I view as a form of conversational bullying). . Hello Baz, and thank you so much for being so detailed in your descriptions of your total annoyance with these speech trends. "It has expanded my own understanding of the world and the people you have brought on board are excellent," he wrote. ? "That's why you listen it's to hear people talk," Fortir said. Duffin, of Planet Money, said that when she's recording she tries to sound like "a more listenable, polished version" of herself. To me, it sounds like theyve actually forgotten to end the word and let that final syllable continue to sound out for an extended period. Recently I have noticed what I call the Consonant Drag where the speaker is explaining something and they drag the consonants as if to give them space to think it out. 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. This is a huge trend on YouTube right now and its quite annoying. Noticably used televangelist pastors and political speeches. Ive NO idea where it came from or why. NPR is moving announcer Sabrina Farhi out of her "primary" role reading its sponsorship credits, according to an email to member stations. Pay attention and I promise youll start noticing these patterns in nearly every casual conversation you listen in on. I watched a high school teacher being interviewed on television and every other word was one of the phrases that make me tune out as I am bound to do when I am forced to watch a powerpoint presentation. Have I become a crotchety old fart or is Idiocracy truly upon us? To say that all these fad-driven speech patterns are kinda, sorta, well I dont know, annoyingmay seem a bit harsh. Brits will say Sorrey, and Americans will say sorry. Guest (author/pundit/wannabe politician): Sure, so, moving forward, we obviously want to first see what reopening would look like, then secure the strategic infrastructure to sort of make that happen in this space (apparent reference to safe space). Instant shutdown. i agree, it drives me insane , they sound like 4 year olds. Given NPR's millions of listeners, pleasing each one all the time would be an impossible goal. When I hear someone at a store or restaurant say something else instead of Have a good one! I thank them for not being like the rest of the robots. What game? 2. I may be alone in this one lol, but i hate it. Yeah, naa, yeah is, similar to the Yeah, nowait, what?. Ummm also people who ummm say ummmm uncontrollably as well as the yeah, no phrase that is everywhere. It goes this way. upspeak, vocal fry, constant buzzwords, overworked filler phrases, etc. thas instead of thats (which is the abbreviation for that is) They stay on one pitch primarily and then bounce up to the other pitch (note) on certain words, usually at the end of the sentence or at a comma if it were to be written out. As in change the sheets or change a lightbulb. Sorry for the typo of the when it should have been they. What is the affectation where the speaker draws out the end of every sentence as if theyve just ran out of breath, but still want to get that last word out. What I notice is the use of Well, before almost every response by news panelists. The worst speech pattern for me is when the speaker put strong emphasis on many words in the same sentence, for example: But this pattern is now very diffuse, especially for people who do speeches, they think that putting a strong emphasis on each words makes their speech more powerful, while in reality it just dilutes the effect because now most words are pronunced with emphasis. Thatsaid when I want to pause, shake my head a little & say Wait, what?. Hello; is it hipster talk? Thank you so much for validating my comments to my skeptical wife. Or, as my best friend calls it: the hissed s. For example, the word is news, not noose. Allison I have to chuckle at your comment, since just last night, while watching one of the football playoff games, my husband was getting quite annoyed at Tony Romos continuous use of the word right? uptick included, while commentating. Yet literally all of my female colleagues get constant criticism for how they speak or sound" He told me, except for two pronunciation corrections, he has never received a complaint about his voice or speaking manner even though, by his assessment, he uses "like" and "um" just as much as the women on the NPR Politics Podcast. And they do it a lot. Then there is the over use of the word Like & So I think it was about a year ago that I first noticed this creeping into speech. It seems to be many white females that Im noticing using this trend. Anywho.. She tackled the challenge of transitioning to radio, in part, by developing an unusual approach to writing out her tracks (the reporter's narration). Uptalk is the new wave sweeping the youth, like wearing tights and having tattoos all over your arm. It has become so prevalent that someone has to be telling them that this is the proper way to speak and I would like to know who it is. Its as if speakers dont care whether their grammar is correct. Thank gawd to learn Im not the only one who bitches about these assaults on English. Criticizing someone's voice often seems to be a criticism of their identity. Aha, I see what you did there. I wonder how many of these patterns we can blame on Keeping Up with the Kardashians and other shows of that ilk. My wife has been sucked in and watches all of these, albeit now in private, as I spend most of my time pointing out how these dumb narcissistic losers, sap the very life out of all right-thinking folks within humanity. NPR seems to be doing a full-out Jessica Rabbit Via . 3. I wonder if its the education system, or perhaps social media or television. Argh!!! OK. How about the recent clipping to the end of some words. Example.. If it is so obvious, why is it news? For example as heard by a newscaster recently: Please. I had to fight my own brain! Also, Im not fond of meme/social media culture creeping into everyday conversation either. How NPR's Carrie Johnson found her radio voice. Thank you Baz for this eloquently written commentary. I am now hearing full glottal stops ( I think that is the correct term) being ignored. I DO say February. this article was originally conceived after listening to NPR and the annoying patterns heard by those that are supposed to be professional broadcasters. Kids used to be so proud when their cursive writing improved as they practiced it. Hansen has served on the Mills College Alumnae Steering Committee; the Washington, DC, chapter Arts Committee of the Brandeis University Alumni Board; the National Society of Arts and Letters; and as judge for the Mr. District of Columbia Benefit Competition. The voice goes up and slows down, theeeeeeeen, then they list detail 1, and detail two (pause) and detail three. Comments like that don't bother or surprise Fortir. Together with NPR's Training Team, she created a 10-minute voice coaching video, which offers tips to solve common vocal problems. That holds true for the sources NPR interviews on the air, just as it does for the voices of correspondents and hosts. Though Sanders, of It's Been a Minute, has heard from listeners that he and his panelists use "like" too much, he thinks it's indicative of a good conversation. Dont get me started on the vocal fry. The sound of 2020 America is a chirpy vocal fry. I recall an item on the NPR program All Things Considered in the EARLY 90s about the rising inflection? Shell draw out her sentences with filler words and phrases such as now this adding in a firm yeah this speak continues with nonsensical words until she brings in another thought. I hope they will include this in the next videos. I am a voice artist as well and I make SURE there is no creaks in my work! 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