I hate radio "fast-talk"

[BolianAuthor]

You know the kind... you're listening to the radio, and then a commercial for some kind of legal or credit service comes on, and at the end, the narrator totally speeds up his pacing so that the speech is incredibly fast, like an auction caller, to convey the "fine print" text of the ad through voice.

I absolutely HATE this now... it is just so frakking irritating. As soon as I begin to hear that, I just switch the station on the radio, because I find it so incredibly annoying. Does anyone else find this as annoying? Okay, rant over.

 

[RoJoHen]

As it only lasts about 3-5 seconds, no, I don't find it annoying. I am actually impressed with the speed at which the person is talking.

Of course, I haven't listened to the radio in years, so I may not be the best person to ask.

 

[B.J.]

The Micromachines guy can actually talk that fast, but I think the voice on modern commercials are just sped up digitally.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

We don't have that in Australia and every time I hear it makes me almost embarrassed because it sounds SO BAD.

 

[Admiral Shran]

It doesn't bother me that much. In fact, I kind of find it humorous that they think we care about the "fine print" in a radio commercial.

The kind of radio "fast talk' I absolutely cannot stand is when the DJ decides to talk over the opening of a song. I've noticed that whenever a song starts with an extended instrumental part, the DJ always has to continue to talk. I remember it once got so bad that the guy was literally talking a mile a minute so he could finish what he was saying before the lyrics started - seriously, he was talking as fast as a human possibly could.

Just let me listen to the music dammit!

Okay, my rant is over.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I find the Disclaimer Voice at the end of radio commercials to be somewhat hilarious.

The Micromachines guy can actually talk that fast, but I think the voice on modern commercials are just sped up digitally.

Whatever happened to that MicroMachines guy? He was one of my childhood idols.

The kind of radio "fast talk' I absolutely cannot stand is when the DJ decides to talk over the opening of a song. I've noticed that whenever a song starts with an extended instrumental part, the DJ always has to continue to talk. I remember it once got so bad that the guy was literally talking a mile a minute so he could finish what he was saying before the lyrics started - seriously, he was talking as fast as a human possibly could.

Just let me listen to the music dammit!

Amen. Let it all out. (Just don't let it all out while I'm trying to listen to the music... )

 

[BolianAuthor]

It doesn't bother me that much. In fact, I kind of find it humorous that they think we care about the "fine print" in a radio commercial.

The kind of radio "fast talk' I absolutely cannot stand is when the DJ decides to talk over the opening of a song. I've noticed that whenever a song starts with an extended instrumental part, the DJ always has to continue to talk. I remember it once got so bad that the guy was literally talking a mile a minute so he could finish what he was saying before the lyrics started - seriously, he was talking as fast as a human possibly could.

Just let me listen to the music dammit!

Okay, my rant is over.

Yeah, I absolutely hate it when people talk over the music, too. Seriously, I am starting to take a good look at XM or something, so I don't need to hear any commercials or crap-arses talking over the music.

 

[Gaith]

I find the Disclaimer Voice at the end of radio commercials to be somewhat hilarious.

+1

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

The kind of radio "fast talk' I absolutely cannot stand is when the DJ decides to talk over the opening of a song. I've noticed that whenever a song starts with an extended instrumental part, the DJ always has to continue to talk. I remember it once got so bad that the guy was literally talking a mile a minute so he could finish what he was saying before the lyrics started - seriously, he was talking as fast as a human possibly could.

We call that "framing".

Just let me listen to the music dammit!

We would but surveys show that people listening to the radio would rather hear a human voice from time to time.

 

[Amaris]

^ In that case, I despise "framing" too. We have a DJ at our local radio station who talks right into the songs, at least 10 seconds or so, and steps on the end by about 10 seconds. I rarely listen to that station, and I don't know why anyone else does, since they hear him at the beginning and end of almost every song. Gah!

 

[Jim Gamma]

I think there's two reasons for "framing".

1) So that you can't record the song and get a "clean copy", which you could then pass on to your mates as an "illegal MP3".

2) The same reason TV presenters talk over credits - so that they can prove a 'need' for the time, otherwise the DJ will have his voice-time cut and be told to put on more songs/adverts/etc.

As for "fast-talk", that's there for legal reasons - there are certain things they must, by law, state, but they don't want them cluttering up the actual advert.

 

[mari]

Just let me listen to the music dammit!

We would but surveys show that people listening to the radio would rather hear a human voice from time to time.

But the songs I listen to have a human voice! Unless it's Ke$ha.

Radio stations should be informed that the only people taking their surveys are maniacs like this one woman I know, who was explaining to the public utility the other day that "We don't use your electricity. We have a big wheel in the back room and we take turns on it."

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

^ In that case, I despise "framing" too. We have a DJ at our local radio station who talks right into the songs, at least 10 seconds or so, and steps on the end by about 10 seconds. I rarely listen to that station, and I don't know why anyone else does, since they hear him at the beginning and end of almost every song. Gah!

Radio stations should be informed that the only people taking their surveys are maniacs like this one woman I know, who was explaining to the public utility the other day that "We don't use your electricity. We have a big wheel in the back room and we take turns on it."

Here's a little secret about radio: most people don't actually like music. They think they do, but they don't. They just want something to make a vaguely pleasant noise while they're driving or cooking or whatever. From time to time, they'd like to hear something that sounds familiar and reminds them of their youth, and from time to time, they want to hear a human voice. The proportion of people who actually listen to the music and have an opinion about it is less than 10%.

 

[scotpens]

I think there's two reasons for "framing".

1) So that you can't record the song and get a "clean copy", which you could then pass on to your mates as an "illegal MP3".

2) The same reason TV presenters talk over credits - so that they can prove a 'need' for the time, otherwise the DJ will have his voice-time cut and be told to put on more songs/adverts/etc.

Top-40 deejays have been doing “framing” for as long as I can remember. They were doing it back in the 1950s and ’60s, long before the internet, digital audio and file-sharing. But the trick was to talk right up to the moment the vocals start. “Stepping on” the singer(s) was considered unprofessional and bad form.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I dislike it myself, but I think they might record it normally then just speed it up while its played.
I'm sure that if they can speed up the credits at the end of a movie but leave the sound normal (to fit it into the TV time frame) they can do the fast talk .
just a thought.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

Top-40 deejays have been doing “framing” for as long as I can remember. They were doing it back in the 1950s and ’60s, long before the internet, digital audio and file-sharing. But the trick was to talk right up to the moment the vocals start. “Stepping on” the singer(s) was considered unprofessional and bad form.

It still is.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I can't say this bothers me enough to ever change the station. I just tune it out.

 

[B.J.]

The Micromachines guy can actually talk that fast, but I think the voice on modern commercials are just sped up digitally.

Whatever happened to that MicroMachines guy? He was one of my childhood idols.

John Moschitta. Last time I personally remember hearing him, he was quite appropriately doing the voice of Blurr in Transformers Animated. (He also did G1 Blurr in the '80s.)

 

[backstept]

Switch to NPR . . . no ads (except to name sponsors)
and usually they play excellent music. WAER 88.3 in Syracuse plays Jazz
it's the only station programmed into my car stereo. I love it.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The kind of radio "fast talk' I absolutely cannot stand is when the DJ decides to talk over the opening of a song. I've noticed that whenever a song starts with an extended instrumental part, the DJ always has to continue to talk.

That was always frustrating back in the dinosaur ages when I would try and tape a song I liked off the radio. The DJ would always choose that song to talk over to beginning of. It never failed.

I haven't listened to the radio for music in the better part of a decade now, though.