Episode Details

When you're speaking to a client or presenting your product or service, do you have a ton of "ums" and "ahs"? Do you find it frustrating, but don't know how to get rid of that irritation? And if you're recording an event, a whole bunch of ums and ahs can cause a major headache in editing?plus push up editing time and frustration levels. So how can you get rid of all your ums and ahs in under 15 minutes?

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In this episode Sean talks about

Part 1: How to get rid of 'ums' and 'ahs' when podcasting or speaking in under 15 minutes Part 2: The sound of spit and how to get rid of it Part 3: Why you need variation in your voice

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The Transcript

"This transcript hasn't been checked for typos, so you may well find some. If you do, let us know and we'll be sure to fix them."

This is The Three Month Vacation, I'm Sean D'Souza.

We've been podcasting since around November of 2014. One of the things that I never seem to cover is anything to do with podcasts. That's not on purpose, it's just something that I've never covered. Today I'm going to have this very short podcast, no stories, just a little technique that will help you as you're going about creating audio or even speaking in public.

Little Technique To Help Creating Audio

There are a few things that we do when we're recording podcasts that are very frustrating. The first thing that we do is we cannot help it and we go um, uh, um. These ums and uhs seem to infiltrate our speech whether it's in a podcast or in an interview or just presenting to your client. On podcasts, you also get the sound of spit, yes? Moisture in your mouth. It sounds like [chump chump 00:01:06], like that. It's very frustrating for you, not so much for the listener. After awhile even listeners start to tune in to that spit kind of sound. How do we get rid of that?

Finally the third thing about the podcast is just this variation in your voice. It's very easy to start recording and forget that there's an audience out there. You're never speaking to an audience, you're always speaking to one person and this is the mistake that we make. These are the three glitches that we make when we're podcasting. Today I'm going to get rid of all three of them.

How to get rid of 'ums' when podcasting or speaking

Let's start off with getting rid of all the um and the uhs that we have when we are podcasting or speaking to anyone at all. It doesn't matter whether you use a PC or a Mac, you've seen that spinning ball on your computer haven't you? When the computer's trying to access something, it's going through that, hey let's get to this something. You can't do anything and you're just sitting there waiting for it to do it's thing before you can continue working.

That's approximately what your brain is doing, but at a much higher speed. It's a better processor, your brain. What it's doing is it's trying to access the information. Every time a speaker says um or a