Podcast Participants Trailing off at the End of Sentences

Some podcasts hosts and guests have a habit of trailing off at the end of sentences, which means their last few words are spoken/mumbled so quietly that they can barely be heard.

This is a major problem for listeners who are listening in environments that has considerable background noise (like driving in a car, jogging, washing dishes, at the gym, etc.) because when the guest trails off the listener will not be able to hear those words AT ALL, making the conversation difficult and annoying to follow.

To help alleviate this problem in post-production tools like compression, limiting, leveling, or all three could be used. It’s also possible to manually raise the level of those quiet/mumbled parts but that is A TON of work and very time consuming.

How do you handle this kind of thing?

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