Voice Tips for a TV News Reporter

Video Transcript

"BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about your voice, how you speak, what you're saying, that sort of thing. When you're speaking as a news reporter, you're supposed to be connecting with your audience. You're not supposed to speak in a weird voice. You're not supposed to speak in a deeper voice or a higher pitched voice. You're supposed to talk people as if you would talk to people. When you speak to your friends, you don't speak in a weird [INDISCERNIBLE] announcer voice. You just talk to your friends, and that's what your audience is. They're your friend. Every evening, they invite you into their home to have a conversation with them. They invite you into their home to tell you about their day, for you to tell them about your day. To inform them about what's going on in their community, and they want to be talked to as if they were just a regular person. So keep your voice conversational. Have a conversation with your audience. Don't read off a--you're reading a script but you're--you don't want to sound as if you're reading a script. Don't, "This is the first thing on my list, and this is the second thing on my list." Just talk like a regular person, "This is the first thing on my list. This is the second thing on my list, and this is what we're talking about right now." Speak to people as if you were speaking to your friends."