How A Position Of Power Can Change Your Voice

i
i

How would you sound in front of an NPR microphone?

Meredith Rizzo/NPR

hide caption

itoggle caption

Meredith Rizzo/NPR

How would you sound in front of an NPR microphone?

Meredith Rizzo/NPR

Most radio reporters, I think it’s fair to say, think about their voices a lot, and work to sound powerful and authoritative. I know my voice has changed since my very first radio story 10 years ago:

‘);

var $visualizer = $audioElm.find(‘.audio-visualizer’);
var bar = ‘‘;

for (var i = 0; i 100) {
// safeguard
positionSought = duration – 10;
}

return positionSought;
};

scrubber();

$(window).resize(function(){
$bucket.find(‘.scrubber’).off(‘mouseup mousemove mousedown drag dragend’);
scrubber();
});
}

var setState = function(state){
$playButton.data(‘status’, state);
switch(state){
case “play”:
$bucket.addClass(“playing”);
$bucket.removeClass(“isLoading isPaused”);

updatedBackToTop(‘play’);
break;
case “pause”:
$bucket.removeClass(“playing isLoading”);
$bucket.addClass(“isPaused”);

updatedBackToTop(‘pause’);
break;
case “buffer”:
$bucket.addClass(“isLoading”);
$bucket.removeClass(“isPaused”);

updatedBackToTop(‘buffer’);
break;
case “stop”:
$bucket.removeClass(“playing isLoading isPaused”);

updatedBackToTop(‘stop’);
break;
}
}

var send_play_metric = function()
{
try
{
NPR.metrics.event({
‘network’ : ‘NPR Site’,
‘category’: ‘Secondary Audio’,
‘action’: ‘Play Audio’,
‘label’: audioUrl
});
}
catch(e)
{
NPR.messaging.exception(e, ‘NPR.metrics.StreamingAudio’, NPR.messaging.constants.METRICS_ERROR);
}
}

var send_pause_metric = function()
{
try
{
NPR.metrics.event({
‘network’ : ‘NPR Site’,
‘category’: ‘Secondary Audio’,
‘action’: ‘Pause Audio’,
‘label’: audioUrl
});
}
catch(e)
{
NPR.messaging.exception(e, ‘NPR.metrics.StreamingAudio’, NPR.messaging.constants.METRICS_ERROR);
}
}

var updatedBackToTop = function(state) {

var $backToTop = $(‘#back-to-top’);
if($backToTop.length !== 0) {
if(state === ‘play’) {
$backToTop.addClass(‘media-playing’);
} else {
$backToTop.removeClass(‘media-playing’);
}
}
}

$playButton.on(‘mouseup’, function(e){
e.preventDefault();
// the “case” values correspond to the player at time of button click – the player’s current state, not the state the user is engaging.

switch($(this).data(“status”)) {

case “play”:
send_pause_metric();
playerInstance.pause();
setState.apply(this, [“pause”]);
break;
case “pause”:

send_play_metric();
playerInstance.play();

if(!$bucket.hasClass(‘streaming’)){
setState.apply(this, [“play”]);
}
break;
case “buffer”:

break;
default:
send_play_metric();
playerInstance.play();

if(!$bucket.hasClass(‘streaming’)){
setState.apply(this, [“play”]);
}
}
});
});

Nell Greenfieldboyce reports on crows