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Ask HN: How to Speak Coherently for a Video/Podcast?

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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.

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.

I've been dabbling with premiere pro it feels easy enough. lot of video tutorials, just look up what i want to do eventually stumble into searching right keywords. For audio audacity workflow was easier to edit out mistakes. Tip i learned from a youtuber is to record short sentences speak them 2x-5x and keep the best sentences. Sure it's a lot of editing afterwards but overtime hopefully one sentence will become 10 sentences.

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

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.

definitely, i always watch youtubers first video and last and it's like 10x difference.

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

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&q=How+to+Speak+Coherently+for+a...

any particular link you wanted to refer to?

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