Your Blogress On The Radio
Well, my phone-sex story got BoingBoinged and Farked yesterday, thus catapulting me overnight from perfect obscurity to Z-list blogosphere celebrity status. (And I've accomplished absolutely nothing these past 24 hours, save doing vanity searches of blogs and Websites. Sad.)
On Monday I'm supposed to do a radio interview with a local morning show; it's scheduled to take place at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. According to the program manager, or whoever it was I spoke to, it'll be streamed live; if you're interested, you can check their Website here.
And if any of you know how to record a copy of my interview, to send to me, I'd be very appreciative.
I suspect I'm going to HATE how I sound. Like all people, when I hear my own self speak my voice resonates through my skull and sounds much richer and deeper than it is. I'd always thought I spoke with a nice sexy contralto voice, until I heard the recording I made for the phone-sex line and was horrified to discover I'd apparently inhaled a blimpful of helium without realizing it.
I also suspect they're going to ask me to do The Voice, which is why the over-the-phone interview will not take place at my desk, which is in a noisy, crowded newsroom, but at my boss' desk, located in an office with a shuttable door.
EDIT: Check out the comments thread, where Ron Hardin was good enough to post a link to a recording he made of the interview. I think I generally sounded all right, even though I stumbled over a few sentences. "Less ickier?" Hmmph--and me a holder of two English degrees.
Too early in the morning. That's my excuse.
On Monday I'm supposed to do a radio interview with a local morning show; it's scheduled to take place at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. According to the program manager, or whoever it was I spoke to, it'll be streamed live; if you're interested, you can check their Website here.
And if any of you know how to record a copy of my interview, to send to me, I'd be very appreciative.
I suspect I'm going to HATE how I sound. Like all people, when I hear my own self speak my voice resonates through my skull and sounds much richer and deeper than it is. I'd always thought I spoke with a nice sexy contralto voice, until I heard the recording I made for the phone-sex line and was horrified to discover I'd apparently inhaled a blimpful of helium without realizing it.
I also suspect they're going to ask me to do The Voice, which is why the over-the-phone interview will not take place at my desk, which is in a noisy, crowded newsroom, but at my boss' desk, located in an office with a shuttable door.
EDIT: Check out the comments thread, where Ron Hardin was good enough to post a link to a recording he made of the interview. I think I generally sounded all right, even though I stumbled over a few sentences. "Less ickier?" Hmmph--and me a holder of two English degrees.
Too early in the morning. That's my excuse.
posted by Jennifer Abel at 12:01 PM
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I also suspect they're going to ask me to do The Voice, which is why the over-the-phone interview will not take place at my desk, which is in a noisy, crowded newsroom, but at my boss' desk, which is in an office with a shuttable door.
Uh...perhaps you should leave the door open, Jennifer, - unless it's a sound-proofed room and you're certain no one on the outside could hear you. ;-)
Also, remember to speak from the diaphram - the pit of your stomach. It will add strength to your voice.
BTW aren't you proud of me? I've learned to use a few HTML tags and the first successful time was on your blog here. I've come a long way since...oh never mind.
smartass sob,
What if she doesn't use a diaphram?
Oh boy, I just realized if Jim Carrey's Ace Ventura character had been female, Pet Detective would have gotten an R rating at the very least.
Oh hell, I forgot - congrats on achieving celeb status, Jennifer!
What if she doesn't use a diaphram?
Hmm. A distinct touch, nostar.
Sing from the diaphragm? It would take *years* to learn how to do that! (apologies to Steve Martin)
As for recording a streaming program, it can be easily done with a number of programs, including Total Recorder and Replay.
I am looking forward to hearing your interview. Good luck!
What if she doesn't use a diaphram?
Sing from the diaphragm?
I looked for it in an online dictionary and diaphragm is the only spelling listed, so I'd guess that it is correct. However, I found eighty hits for the former spelling on Ebay, so I'm not the only one who spells it wrong.
That's a good thing. It wouldn't do to stand out - someone might think I'm a "loner" or something. That's getting to be a more and more dangerous classification these days.
I admit to no small degree of curiosity as to what Jennifer actually sounds like, though not so concerned about the diaphram singing.
I'm a tad nervous; from what I hear the guy's one of those asshole-type shock jocks. But I figure, I'm going in there assuming he's going to riff on me for being fired from a phone sex line after only one night (which is eminently riffable, of course), so as long as I don't take myself too seriously I should be fine.
I really am going to hate my voice, though.
I don't know of anybody who can record this for me, though. That stinks. I'll never be able to hear my own interview!
P.S. to Smartass: yes, I like to think of this blog as a place where we can all Learn, Share and Grow.
Oh, hell, did I just type that?
Smartass-Watch out for the spelling nazi, I done been hit a few times here.
Jennifer-I can try to see if I can record it. Don't know as my schedule is rather hard to predict. I'd have to spend the money to buy a program though.
Oh, no, Moose! I don't want you spending any money; my request was directed more towards those who already have such a program.
Imus talked to one of the west coast affiliates traffic ladies occasionally, and she earned extra income as a phone sex worker, oh about a decade ago. I don't remember much about it except one of her customers liked farts, so she did a couple demo's for Imus.
A better Imus deal was a spontaneous on-the-street interview of a stripper, who turned out to be a Columbia International Political Studies student, so Imus directed every question to what was happening in the Middle East. Sort of a meta-joke, where Imus doesn't mention the sex sitting right in front of everybody, for the five minutes it took.
It all depends on getting a good interviewer, in other words. You can't predict it.
Ok, I'm signed in and streaming it, with 12 min to spare. Can't know how to record it...but perhaps can figure that out in a min.
Okay, how did I sound? I know I stumbled over a couple of sentences.
The guy from the show e-mailed me an MP3 recording! I'll have to talk to my IT guy and figure out how to put it online and link to it.
You sounded fine to me. I was prepared for some sort of squeaky,"little people" voice, ala your earlier remark about inhaling helium. But not a bit of it - your voice is perfectly normal and atually rather pleasant to listen to. As for your performance - that too, seemed very professional. You sounded calm and conversational - very poised. Well done, Jennifer!
There's a streaming real audio version here and the actual half megabyte real audio file here (which you can save by right clicking with SAVE AS)
A mere half megabyte, which would be its only advantage over your mp3. Nice of the station to send you it, by the way.
I myself was cruising the AM band looking for a replacement for Imus. God, what drek is out there. Everybody is a fat pantload with a single act. Anyway it left me free to record this.
Aw crap! I just now realized...they didn't ask you to do "The Voice".
RH-You just need to go to sat radio. I gave up on broadcast about two and a half years ago, for the same reason.
Jennifer-I didn't listen to the whole thing, someone came by, but what little I heard of your voice sounded fine. Will relisten when I have a chance thanks to RH.
Lucky for me they didn't, Smartass. It was too damned early for me to be even sparkly, let alone sexy--it would've ended in tears.
That was fun, though. I'll admit that beforehand I felt nervous and wished I hadn't agreed to do it, but after I said 'hi' to the DJ and he made that remark about my voice being up to par for the position I knew he was going to be cool, not rude.
it would've ended in tears.
I won't ask whose, just in case you'd be on one of them dominatrix lines in the morning ;)
You did fine. Had I not read, I wouldn't have even picked up on the "more ickier" comment.
I find it interesting that phone sex workers wrote you. I guess they're sticking up for their..uh.."profession".
Congrats on becoming a "known entity" in the blogosphere, Jennifer. I have no sound at work, so I'll have to wait until I get home to listen to your interview.
You sounded fine, Jennifer. Poised, well-spoken, intelligent and thoughtful, not too flippant, and not too prudish. Assuming no studio tricks were used, I'd say you have a nice speaking-voice, too.
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