{"id":5125,"date":"2018-04-12T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.balkingpoints.com\/balk\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2025-06-15T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T23:50:43","slug":"couric-voice-steal-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/archives\/5125","title":{"rendered":"Couric Voice \/ Steal The Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ex1\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size:20px ;\"><em>If you reached this Balkingpoints article by direct external link, stop by the front page for a <a href=\"http:\/\/Balkingpoints.com\"  target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>rotating satellite view<\/strong><\/a> of the earth at night<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/div.png\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-api.sharethis.com\/js\/sharethis.js#property=6005a7edc6ae2f001213eb1d&amp;product=inline-share-buttons\" async=\"async\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\np.ex1<br \/>\n{<br \/>\nfont:16px arial,sans-serif;<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n<\/style>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sharing.wcpo.com\/sharescnn\/photo\/2016\/07\/28\/Unknown_1469699978910_43264583_ver1.0_640_480.jpeg\"\/><br \/>\nimage source: wcpo.com<br \/>\n<code><\/code><br \/>\n<code><\/code><\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nWill sometimes pull up Katie Couric&#8217;s podcast on the cell while at chores around the house, because of the guests she gets and also because of that trademark broadcaster voice. It&#8217;s a good one and arguably was a success component in the best job of her career, Today Show co-host. Her voice was perfect for that kind of show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nShe shared something on one of those podcasts I never knew &#8211; early in her career she retrained her voice with regard to it&#8217;s pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nPretty low female pitch for Katie, right? When she started out in TV, she said she had a higher voice and was advised to shift it downward. It&#8217;s not that hard, you just find a pitch you&#8217;re comfortable with and force self to use it until it becomes second nature. That was super advice for her career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nTaking an objective viewpoint here &#8211; not anything in the way of critique of higher voices. But this is interesting &amp; something almost never discussed in the public realm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nThe trick of shifting vocal pitch downward is only useful for women, unless it&#8217;s a man with a high voice \/ same benefit. The lower pitches just resonate better, and that can help you in a job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ex1\">\nSo Couric effectively tossed out a tip to anybody who wants it. Try it out on friends &#8211; worth a shot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.online\/@Balkingpoints\" >Roy@Balkingpoints<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size:18px ;\">Published 2018 \/ all rights reserved<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you reached this Balkingpoints article by direct external link, stop by the front page for a rotating satellite view of the earth at night image source: wcpo.com Will sometimes pull up Katie Couric&#8217;s podcast on the cell while at chores around the house, because of the guests she gets and also because of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6173,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/6173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balkingpoints.com\/balk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}