The Unapproved Orator

Perhaps I shouldn’t be writing this. Yet here I am, writing an article specifically about the use of voice and speech, including my use of voice and speech, in the Voice and Speech Review, and I’m not a voice or speech trainer. Indeed, I’ve never been voice or speech trained at all. That’s why I’m an Unapproved Orator, I’m uncredentialled, at least in the traditional sense. There is of course a spectrum—at one end sits the voice expert, the recipient and deliverer of training, the accomplished specialist—at the other end, there is someone who likes the sound of their own voice. I’ll leave you to work out where I am.

https://doi.org/10.1080/23268263.2025.2482498