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📣 techsin101

How to Speak Coherently for a Video/Podcast?


Looking for tips, resources, or anything that would help me ...

- dont forget train of thoughts

- speak coherently

- continue pronouncing normally

i basically want to create youtube video tutorials.


  👤 gradschool Accepted Answer ✓
If you stumble over your words in a video presentation, hold still and pause, collect your thoughts, and repeat what you were saying starting from the last gap before you stumbled. Afterwards you can edit out all the mistakes, sometimes without even a noticeable discontinuity if you haven't moved too much and your video editing software is good at fading. Knowing you can fix everything later takes a lot of the pressure off. It might also be useful just to pause while you think of what to say next instead of feeling like you always have to keep talking as you would in ordinary conversation or a live lecture. You can edit out the pauses too. For video editing software, I've read good things about DaVince Resolve but my GPU isn't new enough to run it. If you don't know what video editing software to use, avoid analysis paralysis and just use Blender. I hope you'll post to HN again when you have some videos done.

👤 yesenadam
I'm sure you will get a lot from this, How to Give a Great Research Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT_-owjKIbA


👤 viraptor
I'm by no means an expert, but what helps me a lot during presentations is a ready outline. As for actually keeping things coherent - I believe practice matters a lot. If you know some podcasts going for a number of years, have a listen to the first and the last episode. Unless the hosts had previous experience, you'll likely hear an extreme change in how well it flows.

👤 WalterGR
Check out Toastmasters. It's all about speaking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International