Hi Alan,
Thanks for this.
One thing I liked when I did Radio Edutalk was by doing the show live I felt no pressure to edit the archives, beyond a bit of levelling and trimming my technical problems at the start of a nicecast broadcast.
One of the values, to me, of listening to a podcast is the extra information, often emotional, that is carried by the voice. This research linked might support that premiss.
As podcasting gets a lot more professional, one of the downsides might be the loss of the unedited voice.
@johnjohnston A perennial problem and that, I think, I tend to attack on a case by case basis. I never remove all the ums, uhs and (not mentioned) ers. But too many are distracting. They distract me, at any rate. I never remove breaths, though I may drop them 5dB
@jeremycherfas well I have never noticed an err, um or breath on eat this podcast, your voice sound great.
Nor me 😉
@johnjohnston good to know. I must be doing something right.