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The Adam Ragusea Podcast
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The Mar to Day the Mayor Said, Blable Ble Blas
In human speech, we get lower in volume and sometimes lower in pitch as we approach the end of a sentence or a thought. I had to work on compensating for the trail off. Trailing off is perfectly tural. We're used to hearing it and dealing with it in one on one personal conversation. But we have to be clearer than that when we talk to an audience in a big room or through a microphone. Maybe the high energy tops of my sentences are rising above your noise floor. But what about the low energy bottoms? Are the ends of my sentences slipping beneath the noise floor?"
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