Here’s When I DON’T Edit Out a Word Mispronounced Then Repeated Correctly

People mispronounce words all the time. Usually they immediately repeat the word correctly and proceed as if nothing happened. These mispronunciations are easy to edit out so that the listener doesn’t even know that a mispronunciation ever happened.

But here’s when I DON’T edit out a mispronunciation: When someone mispronounces a word and then laughs at their own mispronunciation, and then continues laughing WHILE pronouncing the word again correctly. I do not edit that section at all because the edited audio would sound extremely unnatural and jarring to the listener — the first part of a sentence spoken in a normal tone of voice and the second part of the sentence abruptly transforms into a laughing person — and listeners would have no idea why the laughing is happening. This puzzles people, actually. Not good, because when people are confused they “tune out” (and sometimes turn off the podcast).

What is your approach to handling these situations?

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