But what if you went back to your text and did each of those bullet points individually, and not all at once? This all-at-once quality tends to make your mumbling completely unexpressive. When we explore it as an affectation, we tend to go all out and do every possible variable that can lead to the qualities we think of as mumbling. Mumbling is typically a reduction of voice and speech energy. If you found other features of your mumbling you’d care to share, why not make a comment below?
devoicing at the ends of words or phrases, turning voiced consonants into voiceless ones.vowels not very distinct from one another (as if they were all approaching the centre of the mouth, like vowel schwa ).reduced facial vibration (aka resonance), with the sound trapped in the throat.
#Mumble meaning full
using contractions rather than full versions of words, like “gotta” for “got to”, etc.“lazy” speech, whatever that means for you.reduced movement of articulators, particularly the jaw and tongue.glottal fry, especially at ends of phrases, but possibly throughout.low pitch, probably in the “basement” of your range.monotone speech (talking on one pitch, perhaps dropping at the end of phrases).
Here’s what people typically report happens when they mumble. Don’t have anything memorized? That’s ok - why not read some poetry?
Once you’ve done that, you can come back here and we’ll discuss what’s going on. Take a piece of text that you have memorized, and mumble your way through it. Of course, we’re talking about mumbling, which is defined as “to say something indistinctly or quietly, to mutter something under one’s breath.” What I’d like you to do today is experiment with mumbling in your own private way. In this second instalment of the Intelligibility Series, we’re going to look at what Intelligibility isn’t.
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