Jane Setter joins the show to talk accents, speech prosody, and her new book "Your Voice Speaks Volumes."  Jane is Professor of Phonetics at The University of Reading, UK.  In addition to her new book, she is also co-editor of the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary and the Cambridge Handbook of Phonetics. Jane's research interests include speech prosody in children from atypical populations, teaching and learning English pronunciation, and features of the suprasegmental phonology of global varieties of English, such as Hong Kong and Malay speaker English. *there's some slight static from 5:00 - 12:00 In this episode, Jane dives into: the influences that pushed her into a career in phonology speech classes and how Margaret Thatcher learned to "unshrill" her voice being the first phonetician invited to speak at the IATEFL conference the why and how of (unconscious) linguistic judgement  the significance of four seconds in speech recognition why television shows choose certain accents for certain roles why men can't make their voices sound sexy what it means to have a voice that doesn't represent who you are  Read more about this episode on the LYE blog. More on Jane Setter: Her book "Your Voice Speaks Volumes" The Cambridge Book of Phonetics Twitter: @janesetter YouTube: Jane Setter Email: [email protected] Podcast Creation: This episode was created with support from Thinkific & Podbean. If you're looking to launch a course or start a podcast, we highly recommend them - and use them ourselves.  As always, thank you for listening. Your support has been overwhelming and we couldn't do what we do without you. We hope this podcast serves as an effective CPD tool for you. If you have a comment or question about today's show, we'd love to hear from you: [email protected]  For more info on what we do at LYE, check out: Join Our Mailing List Join Our Teacher Development Membership Join our Self-directed Learning Portal See Our Online CPD Courses for Teachers Follow Learn YOUR English Follow Teacher Talking Time