My Four Podcast Tones

August 6th, 2007 | by edXcribe |

Hello this is Edwin at technobiography.edongskey.com. In this podcast I’d like to talk about a few stories about my podcast tones in the past few days that I have been experimenting with podcast.

First story first tone.
First time I tried my hand at podcasting I was recording through my mp4 player or my cellphone. This is what I sounded like:

I sounded like a robot talking to a dumb person, talking like that character in matrix who says “Mr. Anderson“.

My first podcast tone was very, how do you say it? very cold, very deliberate, very calculated. I’d like to change that. I still probably sound like my first tone, my robot tone. And that tone is mainly recorded for my transcriber and not for an audience. So I’d like to shift to my second tone.

My second tone I’d like to make it more conversational, more relaxed. I’d like my second tone to be like to talking to a friend, talking to a person right in front of me. Like telling a story, just like I do when I’m out with friends or when I’m on the phone.

And then my third podcast tone would be actually talking to somebody. It will not just sound like I’m talking to somebody. It’s actually me talking to another person and then this other’s person’s voice will be there too. It will be an interview.

Fourth, probably not the last kind of tone will be scripted tone. The fourth tone is something that is not impromptu, something that is..it’s going to be read, it’s going to be written beforehand, typewritten beforehand and then I’m going to read it. I want to edit it on word before I read it on podcast so that…para maganda ung reflection, well thought out before I record it to a podcast.

So those are my four podcast tones.