{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5fe36a71f3869269deaf79a5/6217c040f4865b0012f0502f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"0467 – Talk To Teddy","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5fe36a71f3869269deaf79a5/1640517727663-c9732320b1dc90956152d18c807b99bc.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>2022.04.12 – 0467 – Talk To Teddy</strong></p><p>When I’m podcasting I… talk and feel like I am having a conversation with somebody, as do other people.</p><p><em>When I started off I actually got my old teddy bear out and I sat him in front of my computer and I talked to him. It gave me a focus for my conversation, I was explaining to him. And I did find to start off with that helped me, particularly for solo episodes to come across more naturally, rather less robotically than when I was starting!</em></p><p><strong>Podcaster John Colley on “<em>The Podcraft</em>” podcast, S4/E4</strong></p><p>John had a great analogy in this podcast. He said that your voice projection and ‘attitude’ for a podcast should be the same as though you were on the phone to friend: talking one-to-one and straight in their ear (though not shouting as though hands-free in a car!). You’re just changing a tele-phone, for a micro-phone…</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And by using the teddy bear in the studio, John created eye contact – another useful trick to sound natural.</p>","author_name":"Peter Stewart"}