Speaking and Voicing Tricks for Podcasting

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Speaking and voicing tricks are one and many. There are exercises for public speakers who need the strength and power of their voice to be at a maximum. There are exercises for singers who need to learn how to put power into their melodious voices. But it is rare to find voicing exercises specifically curated for podcasting.

Podcasting sells on conversations. They talk about topics under a bigger and more general theme. Podcasters invite guests they could interview as well. What is great about it is that listeners could tune in anywhere and anytime they can. Since these are pre-recorded content, listeners could download these on their smartphones and listen even without an internet connection. Rarely with visual input, podcasters could sell purely from the voice of the host. Here are some tips and tricks on how to improve your voice quality for podcasting:

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How to Launch a Successful Podcast

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They say that podcasting is the new way of blogging. Today, there are so many platforms for which an artist or influencer could blog. Because of this, the audience also has a wide selection of means with which they could follow a blog – they could watch it, read it, or listen to it. Podcasting is fun, not only for the host itself but for the listeners as well. It gives a level of intimacy and relatability that written blogs don’t often provide. On top of that, it requires amazing skills in retaining audience attention after a while. There are many sources online that teach how to launch a successful podcast.

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Blogging Royalties: Michelle Obama Interviewing Barack on her Podcast

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Who says politicians and influential people cannot use the internet to reach out to Americans, particularly the youth? Former US First Lady, Michelle Obama, just launched the first episode of her new podcast. Her first guest – no one else but Former US President Barack Obama. The podcast is simply a talk show where Lady Boss Obama would be inviting in some friends, family members, equally influential people, and more to talk about life, in general. It didn’t come as a surprise that she would be interviewing none other than the 44th President of the United States, but their conversation took surprising turns. [Read more…]

How Google+ Hangouts Can Enhance Podcasts

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Google+ Hangouts

Google+ Hangouts enable anyone to host a group video chat, and with the On Air component, anyone can record and stream live to their YouTube account. When I first joined Google+ on its second day of existence, Hangouts really stood out. While, let’s be honest, a lot of the functionality of Google’s own social network is similar to Facebook and Twitter, no other social network offers such a robust group video chat tool…for absolutely free.

In the early days, the service had its ups and downs. There would be crashes, performance issues on Macs, and were even some cases of Hangouts On Airs completely failing to record. Yeah, not something you’re happy to find out after having an hour long conversation that’s now in Internet purgatory. However, those days have quickly been left in the dust, and Google+ Hangouts are more robust than ever.

In the past several years, bloggers have really embraced podcasting. With faster broadband connections, including affordable mics and high quality webcams, many have also incorporated video. While you can use a service like Skype to chat with guests, it comes at a price. You have to buy software to record conversations, the connection quality can be hit or miss, and video chat with more than two people requires a paid Premium account. [Read more…]

When Blogger And WordPress Trade Places (Audio Blogging?)

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A long, long time ago in a place not so far away the Google overlords decided that it wasn’t enough that the BlogSpot faithful could upload text and images to their blogs. Something needed to be done to make their Blogger baby distinct from the masses.

So after much thought they unleashed their geek powers and created AudioBlogger, which allowed BlogSpot disciples to post audio clips from their phones upon their blogs for the low price of free.

Unfortunately the service became “too popular” and thus the Google overlords struck down AudioBlogger to the horror of podcasters everywhere.

Now it seems as if WordPress is helping making audio blogging popular again by introducing the service to their users for free. [Read more…]