faceless voices
Sat Jul 9 17:39:57 EDT 2016
I don't like the voice of one of the WAMU's new announcers. It's nasal, and she has a strange sense of what kind of inflections make her delivery more engaging? (That wasn't really a question? I just thought I'd try writing?with a high rising terminal?)
I don't like thinking that a person's appearance or voice can affect employment prospects and quality of life, but they do. Some people do have a face for radio. Or a voice for sign-language interpreting.
Earlier today I heard her announce that a program will be on tonight, when it's actually scheduled for tomorrow night. That's an easy mistake to make, looking at the wrong page. But this program has been on for decades, and any regular listener knows it won't be on tonight.
But she just did a promo for "A Prairie Home Companion", another very-long-running show that will be on tonight, and she mispronounced "Lake Woebegone". I guess I just expect they could find airtime staff who were actually public-radio listeners. Has she even been listening to the shows since she's started working at the station? She should have heard Lake Woebegone mentioned on air several times.
[2018: I haven't heard her voice for a long time.]
It's like expecting an announcer on a classical-music station to know how to pronounce composers' names, and conductors' names, and just generally know how to (recognize and) pronounce Italian/Latin, German, French, and Spanish, because that's what a lot of the titles will be; Slavic and Nordic languages wouldn't be bad either.
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I don't like the voice of one of the WAMU's new announcers. It's nasal, and she has a strange sense of what kind of inflections make her delivery more engaging? (That wasn't really a question? I just thought I'd try writing?with a high rising terminal?)
I don't like thinking that a person's appearance or voice can affect employment prospects and quality of life, but they do. Some people do have a face for radio. Or a voice for sign-language interpreting.
Earlier today I heard her announce that a program will be on tonight, when it's actually scheduled for tomorrow night. That's an easy mistake to make, looking at the wrong page. But this program has been on for decades, and any regular listener knows it won't be on tonight.
But she just did a promo for "A Prairie Home Companion", another very-long-running show that will be on tonight, and she mispronounced "Lake Woebegone". I guess I just expect they could find airtime staff who were actually public-radio listeners. Has she even been listening to the shows since she's started working at the station? She should have heard Lake Woebegone mentioned on air several times.
[2018: I haven't heard her voice for a long time.]
It's like expecting an announcer on a classical-music station to know how to pronounce composers' names, and conductors' names, and just generally know how to (recognize and) pronounce Italian/Latin, German, French, and Spanish, because that's what a lot of the titles will be; Slavic and Nordic languages wouldn't be bad either.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/822035.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]