We established, in last week's video, that people ask us to stop filming in this area if we have a tripod. This was the best we could improvise... - Tom
I know it might be a bit too political for this channel, but had you ever thought of doing a video on the voice ban of Sinn Féin members in the early 90's and how broadcasters got around it.
Strange to think that in the entire history of humanity it's only very recently that people have realised that the voice they hear when they're speaking sounds different to what everyone else hears...
I assume the advent of recorded media is the earliest point at which people would be able to compare the voice they hear and the voice everyone else hears, and that's around the end of the 19th century. And even then, early playback devices have low sound quality. I think that it's only when audio playback starts getting lossless (or have very little loss after compression) that people can listen to what they actually sound like to everyone else.
The biggest clock face in London/UK is visible just over Matt's shoulder. It is on a building built/financed by Shell and so was nicknamed "Big Benzene". Something you might not have known…
This is one of the billion reasons why I love Tom. I'm hypersensitive to noises, due to sensory processing issues, which means I pay way too much attention to people's speaking voices. There's literally a RUclips channel about woodworking, resin casting etc that I follow only because the dude has an amazing speaking voice. Because of that, obsessing over people's voices, I love Matt and Tom. Matt has an interesting sentence structure which legitimately academically interests me as I'm studying linguistics, and Tom is a linguist with an amazing speaking voice. They've got the whole package to make me binge watch their stuff all night long.
Speaking of voices, recently I noticed that I have an English voice. I speak with a completely completely different tone when I speak English than I do in my native language, and I wasn't even aware of it for all these years. It's interesting to think that there is such a thing as a language-specific voice for multilingual people.
I've noticed the same thing with people speaking French, while being English native. They tend to go up in pitch just a little. What is the change that you noticed?
Chiming in, I, for one, am much lower when normally speaking in English than in Polish (which I'm native to). Another couple of thins I observed, is that I have a tendency to much easier slip into deep, throaty broadcaster voice in English, and, while having a similar range breadth in English as in Polish, it's shifted down in its entirety therein.
I think this is really common. It depends on which sounds are most prevalent in a language. I definitely notice that Afrikaans (my second language) is significantly lower in pitch than English.
Same for me. I noticed that German and English require a totally different speech rythm. And so a different way of utilisation of the vocal chords and the supporting muscles. English is a nicely flowing language, I more "sing it" than speak it. German is quite "staccato". I actually "word" it. And such my tone changes.
I think it does make sense, as each language has its own flow and personality that are reflected by the way words are pronounced. Surely we want to sound as similar to a native as possible and try to mimic them. When I speak Italian I get quite melodic, then for Spanish my mouth and tongue become kind of lazy and relaxed, for Portuguese I use a wider expression range and for English words get more structured, precise.
There's an interesting hypothesis about the "getting used to your face" thing. Apparently, seeing yourself on film is uncomfortable because your image isn't laterally inverted. You see yourself in mirrors all the time, and get used to the way your features look, the side your hair is parted on, etc. But when you see yourself on film, everything flips to the other side, which gives an uncanny valley effect - everything's just a little bit off from where it "should" be.
The only solution (other than seeing a lot of photos and video of yourself) I can think of is to get two mirrors and put them in a corner so that you see a reflection of a reflection. That'd get confusing to use in the beginning though.
Matt: You know, like when you are minding an alien... Tom *panicking and trying to cover up*: No, I DONT know what it's like minding an alien, I've never minded an alien, translate that! Matt *realises he said too much*: No.
@@caramelldansen2204 I was implying that the reason for Tom's reaction is not the slight ridiculousness of the turn of phrase, but the fact he has done so much, he even knows how it feels to mind an alien - and that Matt knows it, but Tom is reminding him they need to be quiet about that secret. The joke is that of course that is untrue, as we all know Tom would share the knowledge of extraterrestrial life if it was indeed present on our planet. It's a bit silly, and honestly not that great of a joke, but I found the reaction and Matt's phrasing funny :)
Raising the middle finger has only recently become rude in the UK so it's not instinctive to avoid it. Pointing with your index finger is rude so pointing with your middle finger became a common mannerism for a lot of Brits. Before the internet (and before American culture became global culture) the equivalent of flipping the bird in the the UK was raising the index and middle finger. Raising the middle finger meant nothing in the UK.
I was in a choir for Karl Jenkins' Armed Man. One of the songs was sung alone by a Muslim boy. When he sung, he placed fingers on the bumpy bone behind his ear, and the bump of bone in front of his ear (start of your cheekbone kind of). He did this to deaden the reverberation of his skull that makes your voice sound more bassy to you. When they sing a prayer, they need to hear the song how everyone else (and God?) will perceive it, for a truer performance. Try put your index finger behind your ear, and your 2nd+3rd fingers in front where the bones are most prominent, and talk or sing. You will hear your voice as it is from the outside, not the inside! It's eerie :D
It's two years too late now but trained simultaneous interpreters don't get speech jammed if you play back our voices on a delay. It's literally what we're trained to do.
I'm a Canadian expat living in the US (for 7+ years now), with sensory processing issues that make understanding speech difficult. I tend to rely on lip-reading or subtitles when syllables or words smear together - which, incidentally, makes me really grateful when channels prioritize subtitling their videos, so thank you, Tom. But I always come back to your videos, on this channel and otherwise (Citation Needed is, like, my most-watched RUclips thing ever) because I can always understand you guys so, so well. FWIW.
Years ago I was doing a video chat with my sister, and my daughter(3yr) joined. The delay was was so bad. my daughter would ask a question, by the time she was finished, her question would echo back. so hearing the question asked , she would answer and ask again. after several cycles I realized we were stuck in a temporal loop! so I covered her mouth, and saved the world that eternity.
I can not stand the sound of my own recorded voice. Not because I just hate the sound of it, but because I have a twin. We may not look identical, but our voices are, so whenever I listen to a recording of myself, all I can hear is their voice saying my words.
I'm not sure. It might make it easier to hear it as myself, but as long as we weren't to speak simultaneously, it could definitely sound like they were having a conversation with themself
Nellipusen that actually might be a good idea for a vlog channel
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I held a speech at some point, where the delay from the microphone to the speakers was so long I couldn't even read what was on my papers. Then I held another speech where everything was perfect. It makes a huge difference. Initially I thought that's something people learned to live with, and then I realized that the audio equipment was just terrible that day. Also I agree with Tom's advice. Keep doing it, it really helps!
I'm kind of envious that you guys got to actually hang out in that particular National Theatre terrace. The entrance was being patrolled by security when I visited, so I didn't get to take photos from that level. Oh darn. Guess I gotta head back over at some point. Might be a bit, though, as that's not the cheapest flight on the planet.
Elizabeth Holmes, founder and fraudster of Theranos, basically learned to do the same thing but she was not as good at it. She faked her deeper voice out of some weird alpha complex and you can find videos of her slipping and speaking normally. When Tom mentioned the deeper sounds he was making I realized his voice had a quality about it that sounded just like her show voice. Changing the tone of your voice is really cool, but I think there might be a distinctive trace about it.
One thing that causes broadcast lag is when there is a live producer that monitors a feed live but the stream is delayed a few seconds.This helps them find spots to transition between live sources ahead of time while adding some lag
US deep south here, no problem at all understanding Matt. In fact, no problem with the vast majority of UK accents. I struggle just a bit with really strong accents, like Kevin Bridges (the comedian) but still manage to decipher what is being said.
I realise finger gestures mean different things over in the UK as opposed to Canada. So it was rather amusing to sit here and have Matt flipping the bird at me repeatedly as he was ticking off points in his explanations.
I noticed that the delay on phone calls I made between the same place in Brazil and the same place in the Netherlands became way shorter in the last 12 years.
People often comment about pilots speaking a certain way (i.e. pilot voice), which I found out, while getting my private pilot's license, happens almost involuntarily because of the need to keep radio communication as simple and concise as possible.
Would you ever consider doing an european tour of some sort? Basically just talking about interesting stuff for two hours on a stage or something like that?
Another thing TV stations used to do here at least was a point to point microwave link, which had very little lag (as it was also the analog/SD era). You were limited to line of sight, so a local station could cover most of the relatively small city, but no further.
in television, you use to be able to use the cable tv returns as a confidence monitor, but now with digital, the picture and sound are up to 4 or 5 seconds late...
OMG, I’ve heard that Radio Four news reader voice! That’s NPR voice in the States. ;) But I’ve used BBC News briefings from time to time, and they are usually either Four or the World Service, which matches the inflections of Radio Four.
I've definitely noticed the increase in delay with folks "on the scene" of any news. IT doesn't need to be across the globe; it is the same 3-4 second delay even 3 or 4 miles away.
9:20 I can attest to that. Two years ago, I would always cringe at my own voice, but after two years of making cover music and doing the mixing myself, I've gotten used to it. Heck, I even put my cover songs on my actual playlist. That's how comfortable I've become with listening to my own voice. But when I see my own face in a photo or video, I still want to rip my [redacted by RUclips] out, haha.
Tech note telephone calls are sampled at 8Khz, packed into ATM frames, and routed over the same backbone network as internet packets. Have been for several decades, the digitally multiplexed E/T-carrier lines were introduced around 1960. Though it is becoming more common to use ethernet transport for voice rather than ATM for data. This is all lower layer and encapsulates any voice or ip-packet payloads.
I read university radio news as well, and I have exactly the same problem as Tom when it comes to sounding like a student rather than Huw Edwards (although if anything mine has too much BASS). Also, I did inadvertently get speech jammed once whilst guesting on a show- the "BBC" became the "BBBBBBCC."
HD x EXoThERMiA I have heard that this is actually a pretty universal thing, so much so that it can be used to tell if a person is actually hard of hearing or just faking it. Don't let them know what you're doing, but get them on the phone or something with their own voice on a delay. If they carry on like nothing is wrong, they're really hearing impaired. If they jam, they can hear voice-level sounds fine.
They often use fractional delays (often < 10 audio samples at 44.1kHz sample rate) to help those who stutter as well. Really interesting stuff if you look in to it.
I don't know why, but whenever I talk to someone on a computer I feel like I sound a little weird. Not while listening to how I sound through a microphone, but just talking into a microphone I'm sometimes more self aware of how I'm talking.
I'm bilingual, and I've gotten used to my voice in one language bc I record stuff a lot, but in the other, whenever I hear myself back it's still so so strange
Based on what I heard when John Green went on the Colbert Report, it seems to me that the way a lot of people deal with the loss of lower resonance is just to add it back with an equalizer.
One of the biggest effects is that the sound of your own voice passes through your own head and becomes lower pitched than what is perceived by other people and microphones.
RUclips suggested "8 Signs of a Toxic Friendship | Sharon Livingston | TEDxWilmingtonWomen" after watchning this. Is it trying to tell me something? Matt? Tom? YOU OKAY?
I am german. Listening to strong accents is a concentration thing. Sometimes I still got lost because my vocabulary is still not lacking those less often used words. Or words I never looked up.
After that last comment, about just having to get used to your face, it would have been perfect if you had edited in the clip from the apology. That image in That video. :P It would have been a hilarious 'point in case'.
microphones generally do not like my voice as they think its too quiet and having to turn the gain up to max resulting in background noise and distortion.
Oh yeah. I work in a job where I talk to customers regularly on the phone. I absolutely have a different tone when speaking to customers on the phone than when talking with anyone else. My voice gets deeper, "smoother," and slightly more "singsong"y. A voice that is more "reassuring" as well as "commanding."
Regarding speech jamming, search for speech jammer in the play store. It's an app that re-plays what you say like 0.2s later to your headphones. You won't be able to speak anymore.
I'm from the US and have had no problem understanding you, Matt. ... however, my Dad's side of the family lives in the UK, and a particularly strongly accented part, so my brain may be accustomed to it. In fact, there is only one place that I had trouble understanding, and that was on the train up to Edinburgh, right before entering Scotland. Not a clue what anyone was saying at all.
Maybe it's time to buy your own park bench and set it up indoors, you could have a greenscreen behind it to insert images of tropical paradises (or other interesting places), it's getting close to winter, and that red T shirt is not going to be warm enough.
We established, in last week's video, that people ask us to stop filming in this area if we have a tripod. This was the best we could improvise... - Tom
Is there some systematic discrimination against tripods going on in London or something?
What is the issue with tripod. Is the logic along the same lines as a phone can cause a fire at the gas station?
oh I thought it was embankment gardens in the last video, my office is just out of shot!
I know it might be a bit too political for this channel, but had you ever thought of doing a video on the voice ban of Sinn Féin members in the early 90's and how broadcasters got around it.
Apparently, having a tripod now makes you a professional photographer/videographer and that means you need to have filming permits. Who knew!
How to get used to this face
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From this image
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From this video.
This needs MORE likes!
I was about 100% sure they were going to show that again.
This was my thought every time they mentioned getting used to your own face.
Not this again asjhbfgdfg
There it is!
4:53 the slight smile Matt gives off when he realizes that he just gave us the finger for a good couple of seconds is so precious.
I love how Matt is in a warm, long sleeve sweater and Tom is in his regular old red t-shirt possibly freezing to death.
some donkus all for continuitis sake
Tom is almost certainly wearing jeans as well.
Tom always wears jeans.
Even the microphone is dressed more warmly than Tom.
Science Officer and Chief Engineer.
Strange to think that in the entire history of humanity it's only very recently that people have realised that the voice they hear when they're speaking sounds different to what everyone else hears...
I assume the advent of recorded media is the earliest point at which people would be able to compare the voice they hear and the voice everyone else hears, and that's around the end of the 19th century. And even then, early playback devices have low sound quality. I think that it's only when audio playback starts getting lossless (or have very little loss after compression) that people can listen to what they actually sound like to everyone else.
Well it's only very recently that people have been able to hear their own voice exactly as others do
What a nice green park.
Such a beautiful experience of nature
Le Courbusier would be thrilled.
It's quite the urban jungle :D
The biggest clock face in London/UK is visible just over Matt's shoulder. It is on a building built/financed by Shell and so was nicknamed "Big Benzene". Something you might not have known…
So is it a mix of green day and linkin park ?
This is one of the billion reasons why I love Tom. I'm hypersensitive to noises, due to sensory processing issues, which means I pay way too much attention to people's speaking voices. There's literally a RUclips channel about woodworking, resin casting etc that I follow only because the dude has an amazing speaking voice. Because of that, obsessing over people's voices, I love Matt and Tom. Matt has an interesting sentence structure which legitimately academically interests me as I'm studying linguistics, and Tom is a linguist with an amazing speaking voice. They've got the whole package to make me binge watch their stuff all night long.
Name of the channel plz
Nathan Sketch Peter Brown
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Knew it had to be Peter...
TheSerenityJade Well duh,obviously, since he's flipping awesome!
Speaking of voices, recently I noticed that I have an English voice. I speak with a completely completely different tone when I speak English than I do in my native language, and I wasn't even aware of it for all these years. It's interesting to think that there is such a thing as a language-specific voice for multilingual people.
I've noticed the same thing with people speaking French, while being English native. They tend to go up in pitch just a little. What is the change that you noticed?
Chiming in, I, for one, am much lower when normally speaking in English than in Polish (which I'm native to). Another couple of thins I observed, is that I have a tendency to much easier slip into deep, throaty broadcaster voice in English, and, while having a similar range breadth in English as in Polish, it's shifted down in its entirety therein.
I think this is really common. It depends on which sounds are most prevalent in a language. I definitely notice that Afrikaans (my second language) is significantly lower in pitch than English.
Same for me.
I noticed that German and English require a totally different speech rythm. And so a different way of utilisation of the vocal chords and the supporting muscles. English is a nicely flowing language, I more "sing it" than speak it. German is quite "staccato". I actually "word" it. And such my tone changes.
I think it does make sense, as each language has its own flow and personality that are reflected by the way words are pronounced. Surely we want to sound as similar to a native as possible and try to mimic them. When I speak Italian I get quite melodic, then for Spanish my mouth and tongue become kind of lazy and relaxed, for Portuguese I use a wider expression range and for English words get more structured, precise.
There's an interesting hypothesis about the "getting used to your face" thing. Apparently, seeing yourself on film is uncomfortable because your image isn't laterally inverted.
You see yourself in mirrors all the time, and get used to the way your features look, the side your hair is parted on, etc. But when you see yourself on film, everything flips to the other side, which gives an uncanny valley effect - everything's just a little bit off from where it "should" be.
The only solution (other than seeing a lot of photos and video of yourself) I can think of is to get two mirrors and put them in a corner so that you see a reflection of a reflection. That'd get confusing to use in the beginning though.
that's interesting I've never thought of that
Would watch a series with both of you called Minding an Alien
They did a film of that already, it's called 'Paul'. Simon Pegg played Tom and Nick Frost played Matt.
Which one's the alien? :P
Hi I have a question for you Vivienne
4:56 And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what I like to call a well timed pause
Matt: You know, like when you are minding an alien...
Tom *panicking and trying to cover up*: No, I DONT know what it's like minding an alien, I've never minded an alien, translate that!
Matt *realises he said too much*: No.
I don't get it.
@@caramelldansen2204 I was implying that the reason for Tom's reaction is not the slight ridiculousness of the turn of phrase, but the fact he has done so much, he even knows how it feels to mind an alien - and that Matt knows it, but Tom is reminding him they need to be quiet about that secret.
The joke is that of course that is untrue, as we all know Tom would share the knowledge of extraterrestrial life if it was indeed present on our planet. It's a bit silly, and honestly not that great of a joke, but I found the reaction and Matt's phrasing funny :)
Guys, I'd be fine with you making this "Matt and Tom's Pub Table" occasionally when it gets too uncomfortable outdoors.
"Matt and Tom's Crack Den" might be going too far though...
"Hi, I'm Matt!
I'm Tom.
And this is the Pub Table!"
Why does Matt keep flipping the bird at the camera around the 5min mark?
Jazz-U Lidlehope My thoughts exactly XD
Fool! That's his second finger!
The smirk and hesitation makes me think he noticed and started thinking whether to say anything about it.
It's a mannerism I think. Shows up in several other videos, like the "What the Brits do for Christmas" one from 2016.
Raising the middle finger has only recently become rude in the UK so it's not instinctive to avoid it. Pointing with your index finger is rude so pointing with your middle finger became a common mannerism for a lot of Brits. Before the internet (and before American culture became global culture) the equivalent of flipping the bird in the the UK was raising the index and middle finger. Raising the middle finger meant nothing in the UK.
I love how you implied that the US is a strongly accented part of the UK
I was in a choir for Karl Jenkins' Armed Man. One of the songs was sung alone by a Muslim boy. When he sung, he placed fingers on the bumpy bone behind his ear, and the bump of bone in front of his ear (start of your cheekbone kind of). He did this to deaden the reverberation of his skull that makes your voice sound more bassy to you. When they sing a prayer, they need to hear the song how everyone else (and God?) will perceive it, for a truer performance.
Try put your index finger behind your ear, and your 2nd+3rd fingers in front where the bones are most prominent, and talk or sing. You will hear your voice as it is from the outside, not the inside! It's eerie :D
I'm a muslim and I honestly didn't know about this. I mean, I was taught to do that but didn't knew why. Thanks mate.
That's a great piece of advice I wish I knew when I sang in a choir.
Whilst finding some intro music, I discovered the sting that they use for the Matt and Tom intro. Not that it's relevant at all.
Is it free?
It's in the RUclips audio libary, I'll find the title
casual onion Commenting to find out what it is
Thanks!
SantaCruzBay It's on my laptop somewhere, you'd be surprised how good those RUclips audio clips are :)
We need to hear Matt and Tom perform "More Than Words", *unplugged*
It's two years too late now but trained simultaneous interpreters don't get speech jammed if you play back our voices on a delay. It's literally what we're trained to do.
I'm a Canadian expat living in the US (for 7+ years now), with sensory processing issues that make understanding speech difficult. I tend to rely on lip-reading or subtitles when syllables or words smear together - which, incidentally, makes me really grateful when channels prioritize subtitling their videos, so thank you, Tom. But I always come back to your videos, on this channel and otherwise (Citation Needed is, like, my most-watched RUclips thing ever) because I can always understand you guys so, so well. FWIW.
Years ago I was doing a video chat with my sister, and my daughter(3yr) joined.
The delay was was so bad. my daughter would ask a question, by the time she was finished, her question would echo back.
so hearing the question asked , she would answer and ask again.
after several cycles I realized we were stuck in a temporal loop! so I covered her mouth, and saved the world that eternity.
I can not stand the sound of my own recorded voice. Not because I just hate the sound of it, but because I have a twin. We may not look identical, but our voices are, so whenever I listen to a recording of myself, all I can hear is their voice saying my words.
Nellipusen So it's not that you dislike the sound of your recorded voice, but more that your brain interprets it as your twin's voice?
exactly! it's awful
Nellipusen It does sound confusing. What do you imagine it'd be like to hear a recording of a conversation between you and your twin?
I'm not sure. It might make it easier to hear it as myself, but as long as we weren't to speak simultaneously, it could definitely sound like they were having a conversation with themself
Nellipusen that actually might be a good idea for a vlog channel
I held a speech at some point, where the delay from the microphone to the speakers was so long I couldn't even read what was on my papers. Then I held another speech where everything was perfect. It makes a huge difference. Initially I thought that's something people learned to live with, and then I realized that the audio equipment was just terrible that day.
Also I agree with Tom's advice. Keep doing it, it really helps!
I'm kind of envious that you guys got to actually hang out in that particular National Theatre terrace. The entrance was being patrolled by security when I visited, so I didn't get to take photos from that level. Oh darn. Guess I gotta head back over at some point. Might be a bit, though, as that's not the cheapest flight on the planet.
I want to see the two of you do the most over the top super annunciating RP voices on a park bench.
“You know when you’re minding an alien....” *tom looks horrified”
THAT WAS HILARIOUS😂
Could you make a vid talking about how you managed to correct your voice and speek from a lower spectrum?
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Elizabeth Holmes, founder and fraudster of Theranos, basically learned to do the same thing but she was not as good at it. She faked her deeper voice out of some weird alpha complex and you can find videos of her slipping and speaking normally. When Tom mentioned the deeper sounds he was making I realized his voice had a quality about it that sounded just like her show voice. Changing the tone of your voice is really cool, but I think there might be a distinctive trace about it.
Thank you for being the most entertaining thing in the world to see/listen to while washing dishes. You're the best
Four years later, I started doing the same thing, I'm glad I'm not alone in that. :-)
Wonderful setup 😂
It took me a while to understand Citation Needed videos, but now I do.
One thing that causes broadcast lag is when there is a live producer that monitors a feed live but the stream is delayed a few seconds.This helps them find spots to transition between live sources ahead of time while adding some lag
Let's get ready to ramble! Best joke I've seen in a while.
"I'm fine... I'm fine..." - Tom (at the end of the video)
Everyone's voice sounds higher than they think it does, because they're used to hearing it reverbrating through their own skull.
are you going to speak about your ART video "We Shred Your Comments" ???
US deep south here, no problem at all understanding Matt. In fact, no problem with the vast majority of UK accents. I struggle just a bit with really strong accents, like Kevin Bridges (the comedian) but still manage to decipher what is being said.
i got an ad for speech therapy on this :/
I realise finger gestures mean different things over in the UK as opposed to Canada. So it was rather amusing to sit here and have Matt flipping the bird at me repeatedly as he was ticking off points in his explanations.
I noticed that the delay on phone calls I made between the same place in Brazil and the same place in the Netherlands became way shorter in the last 12 years.
This was a very good video. You guys were in rare form :-)
Hello I'm Stephen Fry, I've introduced and read all the Sherlock Holmes stories for Audible
Nice
Were you not allowed to use a tripod here either?
That seems to be no
Why are they not using one then?
Aidan Ratnage It's probably because the table they are using would be in the way.
They could have put the tripod behind or in front of the table, or possibly even shortened the tripod.
People often comment about pilots speaking a certain way (i.e. pilot voice), which I found out, while getting my private pilot's license, happens almost involuntarily because of the need to keep radio communication as simple and concise as possible.
Would you ever consider doing an european tour of some sort? Basically just talking about interesting stuff for two hours on a stage or something like that?
Another thing TV stations used to do here at least was a point to point microwave link, which had very little lag (as it was also the analog/SD era). You were limited to line of sight, so a local station could cover most of the relatively small city, but no further.
So are we just going to pretend that you never printed then shredded RUclips comments for hours on end? 😁🖨️♻️
in television, you use to be able to use the cable tv returns as a confidence monitor, but now with digital, the picture and sound are up to 4 or 5 seconds late...
1:45 Why does Matt get “freaked out” when Tom gets close to the mic?
Because he's an audio engineer :D he's scared that Tom's voice will clip
My mum once had a call with American Airlines and she went full on radio 4 just to confuse them.
4:56 Matt flips us the bird. Thanks Matt. I dont know if he knew he was doing it.
OMG, I’ve heard that Radio Four news reader voice! That’s NPR voice in the States. ;) But I’ve used BBC News briefings from time to time, and they are usually either Four or the World Service, which matches the inflections of Radio Four.
I've definitely noticed the increase in delay with folks "on the scene" of any news. IT doesn't need to be across the globe; it is the same 3-4 second delay even 3 or 4 miles away.
Why was Matt giving us the finger?
This must be answered
was wondering the same thing.
he did it a few times.
seemed to realise right on the 5 minute mark after el interrupto; then did it again a half a minute later anyway :)
thats the comment im looking for
9:20 I can attest to that. Two years ago, I would always cringe at my own voice, but after two years of making cover music and doing the mixing myself, I've gotten used to it. Heck, I even put my cover songs on my actual playlist. That's how comfortable I've become with listening to my own voice. But when I see my own face in a photo or video, I still want to rip my [redacted by RUclips] out, haha.
Tech note telephone calls are sampled at 8Khz, packed into ATM frames, and routed over the same backbone network as internet packets. Have been for several decades, the digitally multiplexed E/T-carrier lines were introduced around 1960. Though it is becoming more common to use ethernet transport for voice rather than ATM for data. This is all lower layer and encapsulates any voice or ip-packet payloads.
Arr, Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Thanks for giving me the finger, Matt. I feel honored. :D
I read university radio news as well, and I have exactly the same problem as Tom when it comes to sounding like a student rather than Huw Edwards (although if anything mine has too much BASS). Also, I did inadvertently get speech jammed once whilst guesting on a show- the "BBC" became the "BBBBBBCC."
I'll never get used to my outside voice. On the inside I sound somewhat normal, but when it's out, it's a nasally stammering high pitched mess
It is unhelpful advice, but it's probably still the best advice for learning anything.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who slows down when I can hear myself on a delay.
HD x EXoThERMiA I have heard that this is actually a pretty universal thing, so much so that it can be used to tell if a person is actually hard of hearing or just faking it. Don't let them know what you're doing, but get them on the phone or something with their own voice on a delay. If they carry on like nothing is wrong, they're really hearing impaired. If they jam, they can hear voice-level sounds fine.
It’s still taking me a while to get used to my voice coming in from a voice chat echo or my voice coming through a speaker
When you need to leave the house in ten minutes but you still wanna watch so you put the video into 1.5x
They often use fractional delays (often < 10 audio samples at 44.1kHz sample rate) to help those who stutter as well. Really interesting stuff if you look in to it.
I don't know why, but whenever I talk to someone on a computer I feel like I sound a little weird. Not while listening to how I sound through a microphone, but just talking into a microphone I'm sometimes more self aware of how I'm talking.
Grats on 100k lads.
That dead cat is really impressive.
I'm bilingual, and I've gotten used to my voice in one language bc I record stuff a lot, but in the other, whenever I hear myself back it's still so so strange
A notification appeared on my phone right before Matt said "would you mind" when the loud car drove past.
Based on what I heard when John Green went on the Colbert Report, it seems to me that the way a lot of people deal with the loss of lower resonance is just to add it back with an equalizer.
I feel my tongue is so much bigger when I start speaking
Pause at 5:54…
21/3/22 wow. 4 years of watching the park bench, apparently
One of the biggest effects is that the sound of your own voice passes through your own head and becomes lower pitched than what is perceived by other people and microphones.
As you say "Matt works in broadcast TV", he is giving us all the finger!
I'm not in broadcasting or whatnot, but I am used to hearing my own voice in headphones. Aviation intercoms.
Am I the only one who understands them both perfectly? Even though some times I probably shouldn't
RUclips suggested "8 Signs of a Toxic Friendship | Sharon Livingston | TEDxWilmingtonWomen" after watchning this. Is it trying to tell me something? Matt? Tom? YOU OKAY?
Network delays also stem from the need to be able to cut the broadcast or censor words before they actually get broadcasted.
You are so Radio 4! 😉
I am german. Listening to strong accents is a concentration thing. Sometimes I still got lost because my vocabulary is still not lacking those less often used words. Or words I never looked up.
He's fine, he's fine
After that last comment, about just having to get used to your face, it would have been perfect if you had edited in the clip from the apology. That image in That video. :P It would have been a hilarious 'point in case'.
Love you guys 😊
Please do a special episode of the park bench or of citation needed, speechjammed.
microphones generally do not like my voice as they think its too quiet and having to turn the gain up to max resulting in background noise and distortion.
I am proud to be an auralooker of this channel.
That segment where Matt is giving the camera the middle finger for a solid 2 minutes...
Oh yeah. I work in a job where I talk to customers regularly on the phone. I absolutely have a different tone when speaking to customers on the phone than when talking with anyone else. My voice gets deeper, "smoother," and slightly more "singsong"y. A voice that is more "reassuring" as well as "commanding."
So now the US is a stronger accented part of the UK, and normal phone calls aren't routed over the internet. What date is it, 1990?
So based on your voice examples I take it that BBC4 is like the NPR of Britain?
Regarding speech jamming, search for speech jammer in the play store. It's an app that re-plays what you say like 0.2s later to your headphones. You won't be able to speak anymore.
4:57 pause there. That's what he secretly thinks of you 😂
Love your pfp
why is Tom "fine"... the public must know! well, we are mildly curious... and by "we" I mean me.
+Archonic Energy
He probably hit some part of his body while trying to sit again.
sion8 or stumbled or whatever
+aragonnetje
Just as likely.
I assume he tripped, and that possibly he was near the edge of the roof at that time.
I'm from the US and have had no problem understanding you, Matt. ... however, my Dad's side of the family lives in the UK, and a particularly strongly accented part, so my brain may be accustomed to it. In fact, there is only one place that I had trouble understanding, and that was on the train up to Edinburgh, right before entering Scotland. Not a clue what anyone was saying at all.
Geordies. From the area round Newcastle. One of the most distinctive, well-liked (if you can understand it) and hardest to imitate English accents.
Disappointing! I'm waiting for the episode about 'We shred your comments, live'! (great episode anyway)
art innit
Some things are better left unspoken.
Lost a bet?
nope, just want to see they talk about it and wonder if there are any interesting comments shred.
I like Tom’s Radio 4 voice, could you do a full news report like this?
I don't think the camera moved that much
What did u do with the shredder confetti??
Amy prizes for counting how many times Matt gave up the bird in this?
Maybe it's time to buy your own park bench and set it up indoors, you could have a greenscreen behind it to insert images of tropical paradises (or other interesting places), it's getting close to winter, and that red T shirt is not going to be warm enough.