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Does anyone have days where they can't get their tongue under control and you just mumble and can't enunciate anything through the first paragraph of a reading? Is that a cue to take a day off? haha

Yes, and yes.

When the tongue doesn't engage, there's no sense fighting it, in my experience. It's best to try again either in a few hours or another day.

It usually takes me a few paragraphs to get my mouth "working right."

So when I'm done with the recording, I just continue by recording the first few paragraphs (or page) again. If the initial paragraphs were "bad,", then I use those at the end, replacing the bad ones. Whether I use them or not, it's easy to cut them off the back end before uploading the file.

Don

"can't get their tongue under control and you just mumble and can't enunciate anything"

Congratulations! You've just mastered the Australian accent.


Son of the Exiles

DACSoft wrote:It usually takes me a few paragraphs to get my mouth "working right."

So when I'm done with the recording, I just continue by recording the first few paragraphs (or page) again. If the initial paragraphs were "bad,", then I use those at the end, replacing the bad ones. Whether I use them or not, it's easy to cut them off the back end before uploading the file.

Don

What a brilliant idea! I usually find that the disclaimer is sufficient warm-up for me.

One extremely simple word with which I always seem to struggle, for some unknown reason, is "however". It always seems to come out "hoover" or "hoo-ahver" or something equally awkward

Absolutely! I have a habit of reading the words on the page faster than I can enunciate them... and at a rate that would make it sound like gobbledegook! A steady pace is the key

happy I am not the only one!!!
brianna

"Have days!!!!!"

For me it's every day - but then I'm getting a bit better. The more you do it the better one gets at it.

My problem is that I sight read everything which means I misread a lot, and have to repeat. (Sometimes several times). This can be quite good as by immediately repeating I might get the meaning a bit better too.

I could never get through Oliver Twist or any of the even longer Dickens novels - well, unless I had about a year minimum.