How to Speak in Sound Bites | Public Speaking

Full Playlist: - - Watch more Public Speaking Training videos: How can you speak in sound bites? First of all, what is a sound bite? A sound bite is when you’re being interviewed by a TV reporter, any news reporter, who’s going to edit your comments from an interview and put just part of it on TV, radio, video, or a segment of it in text. So, if a reporter talks to you for ten minutes you might have a thousand words come out of your mouth, but only eight words get on the TV newscast tonight or that video webcast. Why were 992 words thown away and 8 words kept? The reporter took the bite out of your sound that was most interesting. What’s a reporter trying to do when they quote you? They’re looking for a way to make the story more interesting, more understandable, and they’re looking for perspective that