Free tips · Voice · Tip 6 of 19
Lose the fillers
Engineers: your ums aren't endearing. They make you sound weak.
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The fix
Um and so fill silence. A pause does the same job and sounds sure.
Drill · under two minutes
Talk for one minute about your project and replace every um with a pause. Count them in the practice room.
- Filler
- A sound or word that fills silence while you think: um, ah, so, like, you know.
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