0955 – Noisy Breathing

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2023.08.13 – 0955 – Noisy Breathing

Noisy breathing

Symptom: Your in-breath is clearly heard on the recording, sometimes as a suck (occasionally this comes with a lip-smack as well), or a wheeze. This is covered, along with others from episode 0092 – “The Seven Kinds Of Extra Weird Mouth Noises”.

Prescription:

· Re-angle yourself or the microphone so breaths are less likely to be picked up. Or as a ‘last resort’ reduce the level of every breath in the final recording. (Removing the breaths completely may result in the script sounding unnatural, with ‘wordsandsentencesbuttedtogether’.)

· Relax. The noise may be caused by a tightness or obstruction in the airway (the mouth, throat or upper chest)

· Don’t breathe before you have properly open ed your mouth (you’re aiming for it being wide enough to slide a halved-burger bun in, but not a fully constructed Whopper!)

· Consider if you are sitting properly. A slumped posture will mean less air can get in to power your voice, and that means that not only the air you do breathe is quickly used up and so you have to breath more often), but that you have little control over how it powers your words.

Exercise and don’t smoke.

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