title: What makes a good voice for radio: perceptions of radio employers and educators.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To inform vocal training and management of voice disorders of professional radio performers in Australia by determining radio employers' and educators' qualitative perceptions on (1) what makes a good voice for radio and (2) what communication characteristics are important when employing radio performers.
  
  
  METHODS
  Radio employers and educators (n=9) participated in semistructured interviews. Interview transcripts were coded line-by-line and analyzed for qualitative themes using principles of grounded theory.
  Radio performers sound easy-on-the-ear, natural, and have an ability to read and produce voices that suit the station. Many of these characteristics make them sound different to radio voices in the past. Content and personality are now also more significant than voice characteristics. A multidimensional model of these characteristics is presented. The model has implications for the training and management of voice disorders in radio performers and will guide future quantitative research on the vocal features of this population.
authors.affiliation: Voice Research Laboratory, Discipline of Speech Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. swar0066@uni.sydney.edu.au
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Warhurst
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: McCabe
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Madill
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D009517:New South Wales; D010551:Personality; D010560:Personnel Selection; D011361:Professional Competence; D011845:Radio; D012737:Sex Factors; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013065:Speech Intelligibility; D013067:Speech Perception; D014833:Voice Quality; D014834:Voice Training