<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-18761" src="https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-scaled.jpg" alt="In a Manner of Speaking podcast" width="187" height="187" srcset="https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-800x800.jpg 800w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px" />Join Paul Meier and his past guests for this retrospective of the first eight years of the podcast. Paul will be taking a hiatus from the podcast and plans to return in 2026, so, for this last episode of 2025, let us reminisce.
Think of this month&#8217;s episode as a sort of CliffsNotes of the podcast. We hope they inspire you to seek out past episodes in full. You can find them all indexed <a title="‘In a Manner of Speaking’ Podcast" href="https://www.paulmeier.com/in-a-manner-of-speaking/">here</a>, or on your favorite podcast channel or index. But keep in mind that you get all the free extras and related information only at PaulMeier.com.
Thanks to all past guests, without whom this podcast would not be possible. While this retrospective does not include all 89 previous episodes, we have done our best to include snippets of all episodes that feature guests.
The best part about this episode is we have created a video version! Watch it here:
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(Bach’s Cello Suite #1 in G Major BMV 1007 Prelude (by Ivan Dolgunov) is courtesy of Jamendo Licensing.)The post <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2025/07/01/episode-90-a-retrospective-2018-2025/">Episode 90 (A Retrospective: 2018-2025)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com">Paul Meier Dialect Services</a>.

<description>Join Paul Meier and his past guests for this retrospective of the first eight years of the podcast. Paul will be taking a hiatus and plans to return in 2026, so, for this last episode of 2025, let us reminisce. To watch the video version, go to the webpage for this podcast episode at PaulMeier.com/In-A-Manner-of-Speaking.</description>

A Look-Back at the Podcast&#039;s First Eight Years

Join Paul Meier and his past guests for this retrospective of the first eight years of the podcast. Paul will be taking a hiatus and plans to return in 2026, so, for this last episode of 2025, let us reminisce. To watch the video version, go to the webpage for this podcast episode at PaulMeier.com/In-A-Manner-of-Speaking.

Episode 90 (A Retrospective: 2018-2025)

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For the June 2025 episode, Paul and his guest, voice/dialect coach and IDEA Senior Editor Sarah Nichols, discuss the relationship, or lack thereof, between voice coaches and sound designers in the theatre, with particular emphasis on the use of microphones.
Paul and Sarah, along with podcast co-producer Cameron Meier, dive into the history of amplification on stage (and screen) and discuss why, historically, there has not been more cooperation between the disciplines of sound design and voice coaching.
This podcast was inspired by Sarah&#8217;s 2022 article, &#8220;Bridging the Gap between Voice Coaches and Sound Designers in the Theatre” from VASTA’s academic journal, the Voice and Speech Review, for which she received the Rocco Dal Vera Graduate Research Award. For more information on that article, <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268263.2021.2019951">go here</a>.
Sarah is a second-generation Cuban American voice, accent, and communication coach with a BFA in musical theatre from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and an MFA in voice studies from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed on tour with TheatreworksUSA and at sea for Royal Caribbean International, and has taught for institutions in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, and Egypt. Based in Savannah, Georgia, Sarah works with actors and executives in vocal production, accent modification, and public-speaking skills. She is the resident voice and dialect coach for the Acting Company at the Maryland Renaissance Festival in Annapolis, Maryland. Visit <a href="http://www.sarahnicholsvoice.com">SarahNicholsVoice.com</a> and <a href="https://www.dialectsarchive.com/sarah-maria-nichols">IDEA</a> for more information.
We also recommend listening to <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2020/11/01/episode-34-its-all-greek-to-me/">podcast episode #34, with Rush Rehm</a>, from November 2020, which features a discussion of Greek drama.
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A Conversation with Sarah Nichols

For the June 2025 episode, Paul and his guest, voice/dialect coach and IDEA Senior Editor Sarah Nichols, discuss the relationship, or lack thereof, between voice coaches and sound designers in the theatre, with particular emphasis on the use of microphones. Visit the podcast page at PaulMeier.com/In-A-Manner-of-Speaking for more free information related to the topic.

Episode 89 (Voice Coaching, Sound Design, and Amplification in the Theatre)

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The May 2025 episode is the first to tackle the red-hot topic of artificial intelligence, or AI. Paul&#8217;s guests are speech-to-text specialist Michael McAuliffe and dialect coach Tanera Marshall. Paul, Michael, and Tanera, along with podcast co-producer Cameron Meier, discuss AI in the context of human speech in general but especially acting and singing.
Michael, a linguist, brings AI knowledge to the conversation, while Tanera, by virtue of her being the dialect coach for The Brutalist, lends a unique perspective. It was The Brutalist that generated controversy by using AI to tweak the Hungarian-language dialogue of its actors. For more perspective on the film, see <a href="https://www.meiermovies.com/what-2024-cinema-taught-me/">Cameron&#8217;s review</a> and the videos toward the bottom of this page.
Among the issues discussed are the definitions of AI, the technological achievements and current limitations of computer &#8220;intelligence&#8221; to alter the human voice, the future of dialect coaching and acting itself, the legal and financial issues involved with using actors&#8217; voices to train AI models, the moral and practical differences between AI and older cinematic technological illusions (editing, looping, rear projection, green screen, CGI, motion capture, de-aging, etc.), and the use of AI in music. To demonstrate the latter, the episode includes a portion of a song that was recently created in AI. To hear that entire song, <a href="https://suno.com/song/89e64b1e-2350-4e90-baa3-321a67073800?sh=PBLPFQOGgPOtHFDj">visit Suno</a>. (Thanks to Filmapalooza, Duane Trammell, and Jahil Nelson for use of the song.)
Michael McAuliffe is an adjunct professor in the Linguistics Department at McGill University, focused on creating and improving computational models to enable phonetic analysis of speech. He is the maintainer for the Montreal Forced Aligner, a tool that segments audio files into speech sounds based on a text transcript. His other research interests lie in how listeners adapt to novel speakers and accents, and phonetic analysis of dialects of English as part of the <a href="https://spade.glasgow.ac.uk/">SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE)</a> project. Also see<a href="https://montreal-forced-aligner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/"> the Montreal Forced Aligner.</a>
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In addition to her previously mentioned achievements, Tanera Marshall is a senior editor of the International Dialects of English Archive, or IDEA. She is a voice and accent specialist in theatre, TV, and film, and an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Theatre and Music. Her current and upcoming productions include The Brutalist, Train Dreams, Oh.What.Fun., Ann Lee, The Morning Show (season four), The Bear, and Chicago Fire. Recent credits include Hunger Games (2024), Asteroid City, Widows, Queen &amp; Slim, Dungeons &amp; Dragons, Fargo (season four), Station Eleven, Army of the Dead, Public Enemies, The Immigrant, and the Divergent series. Stage credits include Broadway tours of Hamilton, Billy Elliot, and Dirty Dancing, as well as productions at Steppenwolf, Court, and Timeline theatres in Chicago. For more information on Tanera, <a href="http://theatreandmusic.aa.uic.edu">go here</a>. And don&#8217;t forget to visit <a href="https://www.dialectsarchive.com/tanera-marshall">her page on IDEA</a>.
For a demonstration of the real-time accent modification mentioned in this episode, <a href="https://krisp.ai/accent-conversion/">visit Krisp</a>. Also <a href="https://www.naturalreaders.com/">check out Natural Reader</a>, a company that uses AI to turn text into speech for films and audiobooks. <a href="https://www.notta.ai/en/landing-page/audio-to-text">Notta</a> and <a href="https://elevenlabs.io/">ElevenLabs</a> provide similar services.
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For more perspective on Adrien Brody&#8217;s performance in The Brutalist, check out <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@britishgq/video/7463158084400074017">this interview on TikTok</a>.
To learn about Ancestra, a 2025 short film combining Veo technology with live-action filmmaking, <a href="https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/ancestra-behind-the-scenes/?utm_source=superhuman&amp;utm_medium=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=meta-just-cornered-ai-data&amp;_bhlid=6c8941132e98487adc3a8c894d6c26e50880651c">go here</a>.
Finally, see what our old friends Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher have to say about AI:
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(Bach’s Cello Suite #1 in G Major BMV 1007 Prelude (by Ivan Dolgunov) is courtesy of Jamendo Licensing.)The post <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2025/05/01/episode-88-ai-and-the-human-voice/">Episode 88 (AI and the Human Voice)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com">Paul Meier Dialect Services</a>.

<description>The May 2025 episode tackles artificial intelligence, or AI. Paul's guests are speech-to-text specialist Michael McAuliffe and dialect coach Tanera Marshall, who worked on "The Brutalist." Paul, Michael, and Tanera, plus co-producer Cameron Meier, discuss AI in the context of human speech in general but especially acting and singing. For free extras and more info, go to the May 2025 podcast page at PaulMeier.com/In-A-Manner-Of-Speaking.</description>

A conversation with Michael McAuliffe and Tanera Marshall

The May 2025 episode tackles artificial intelligence, or AI. Paul&#039;s guests are speech-to-text specialist Michael McAuliffe and dialect coach Tanera Marshall, who worked on &quot;The Brutalist.&quot; Paul, Michael, and Tanera, plus co-producer Cameron Meier, discuss AI in the context of human speech in general but especially acting and singing. For free extras and more info, go to the May 2025 podcast page at PaulMeier.com/In-A-Manner-Of-Speaking.

Episode 88 (AI and the Human Voice)

<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft wp-image-18761" src="https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-scaled.jpg" alt="In a Manner of Speaking podcast" width="184" height="184" srcset="https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-768x768.jpg 768w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-800x800.jpg 800w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/In-a-Manner-of-Speaking-logo-with-registered-mark-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px" />For April 2025, Paul is going solo, discussing one of his favorite topics: rhoticity, or how the letter R is pronounced in words. He addresses many aspects of how the letter is used in several accents and dialects but focuses mostly on how R is sounded before and after a vowel. And he compares rhotic with non-rhotic speech.
For more information on the accents and dialects discussed in this podcast, <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/product-category/all-accents-dialects/">visit this page</a>. And to access Paul&#8217;s and Eric Armstrong&#8217;s rhoticity research, R and Its Articulation, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261593292_R_and_its_Articulation">go here</a>. And don&#8217;t forget to visit the <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/ipacharts/">free IPA charts</a>.
Other podcast episodes addressing rhoticity include <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2018/06/29/episode-1/">episode 1</a> (Shakespeare&#8217;s Original Pronunciation), <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2019/01/01/episode-12/">episode 12</a> (The Australian Dialect of English), <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2019/11/01/episode-22-received-pronunciation/">episode 22</a> (Received Pronunciation), <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2023/02/01/episode-61-irish-a-language-in-danger/">episode 61</a> (Irish: A Language in Danger), <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2023/11/01/episode-70-how-american-english-got-its-start/">episode 70</a> (How American English Got Its Start), and <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2024/07/01/episode-78-transatlantic-and-old-movie-dialects/">episode 78</a> (Transatlantic and Old Movie Dialects).
And check out these related videos, the first from fellow dialect coach and IDEA editor Jim Johnson:
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(Bach’s Cello Suite #1 in G Major BMV 1007 Prelude (by Ivan Dolgunov) is courtesy of Jamendo Licensing.)The post <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2025/04/01/episode-87-rhoticity-watch-your-rs/">Episode 87 (Rhoticity: Watch Your R’s)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com">Paul Meier Dialect Services</a>.

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For the April 2025 episode, Paul discusses rhoticity, the use of the letter R in speech. For more information, visit the page associated with this podcast episode at PaulMeier.com/In-A-Manner-Of-Speaking.

Episode 87 (Rhoticity: Watch Your R's)

<figure id="attachment_26395" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26395" style="width: 156px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-26395" src="https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/James-Still.jpg" alt="" width="156" height="208" srcset="https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/James-Still.jpg 468w, https://www.paulmeier.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/James-Still-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26395" class="wp-caption-text">James Still</figcaption></figure>
The March 2025 episode of In a Manner of Speaking is the first to feature a playwright. Paul Meier discusses how playwrights hear their characters voices with Pulitzer Price-nominated James Still.
Paul and James also discuss the art of playwriting in general and read from James&#8217; plays A New World and The Heavens Are Hung in Black.
James Still&#8217;s plays have been produced throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa, China, and Japan. His new plays include Everybody&#8217;s Favorite Mothers (workshopped with Launch Pad); The Cratchits (in America); Haunt Me (commissioned by American Blues); and a new commissioned play with Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Massachusetts. James also directs, and next up is The Glass Menagerie at the Indiana Repertory Theatre.
He is an elected member of both the National Theatre Conference in New York and the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center. He received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award from the William Inge Festival, the Todd McNerney New Play Prize from Spoleto, and the Indiana Authors Award for Drama for his trilogy The Jack Plays. His plays have been developed at New Harmony Project, O’Neill Conference, Sundance, Seven Devils, Colorado New Play Summit, Launch Pad, Fresh Ink, and many others. He is a four-time Pulitzer nominee for his work in the theater and a five-time nominee for his work in television. He is an artistic affiliate at American Blues in Chicago and lives in Los Angeles.
Like Paul, James has roots in Kansas, having graduated from the University of Kansas. For more information about James, see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Still_(playwright)">Wikipedia</a>. And for more interviews with James, see the embedded videos below:
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(Bach’s Cello Suite #1 in G Major BMV 1007 Prelude (by Ivan Dolgunov) is courtesy of Jamendo Licensing.)The post <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com/2025/03/01/episode-86-how-playwrights-hear-their-characters-voices/">Episode 86 (How Playwrights Hear Their Characters’ Voices)</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.paulmeier.com">Paul Meier Dialect Services</a>.

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A Conversation with James Still

The March 2025 episode of &quot;In a Manner of Speaking&quot; is the first to feature a playwright. Paul Meier discusses how playwrights hear their characters voices with Pulitzer Price-nominated James Still. 

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