Radio Glossary

Radio Glossary




voice/voicer : the person who records his /her voice on mic in actuality

:someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech, one that voice

:actuality. recorded segment of a newsmaker speaking, generally lasting from 10 to 20 seconds; this is what people outside of radio journalism often call a "sound bite"
Radio actualities, also known as newsmaker sound bites, are a mainstay of radiobroadcast journalism. Strauss Media Strategies, Inc. can record and distribute audioactualities to targeted radio stations to fit the needs of just about any radiooutreach campaign

commentator:A commentator is a broadcaster who gives a radio or television commentary on an event.

ambiance : ambience (also known as atmosphere, atmos, or background) consists of the sounds of a given location or space. It is the opposite of "silence."

ambient sound:Ambient sound (AKA ambient audio, ambience, atmosphere, atmos orbackground noise) means the background sounds which are present in a scene or location. Common ambient sounds include wind, water, birds, crowds, office noises, traffic, etc. Ambient sound is very important in video and film work.

NAT sounds:Natural Sound (Nat Sound, Nat S-O-T) or Ambient Sound. ... These sounds are most often used to set the mood or provide atmosphere for a specific news report. Nielsen. This is an audience measurement system used to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States

SFX:an abbreviation for special effects , is a software product that makes it easy to create certain kinds of hypertext links within a collection of information such as the description of a library collection.

Instrumental: A musical instrument that makes sounds. Once humans moved from making sounds with their bodies—




BG music:Background (or BG) sound effects are sounds that do not explicitly synchronize with the picture, but indicate setting to the audience, such as forest sounds, the buzzing of fluorescent lights, and car interiors.




signature tune:. a short tune played at the beginning and end of a particular television or radio programme, or one that is connected with a particular performer.




loop:sequence of music that are continuously repeated or music loop contains sounds that are continuously

repeated in particular play or broadcast




sync: Sync, short for "synchronize," is a verb for making things work together. When you lip-sync, you are moving your mouth to exactly match someone else's words spoken or sung at precisely the same time. ... The word now means any type of such matching up,


render:when we mix different sounds to create a project like voice background and loop
SOT: sound on tape
SOTsoundsound on tape soundbiteA small portion (usually one or two sentences) of an audio recording (often an interview) used to illustrate a news story in the words of the interviewee (c.f. a quotation from a politician).sometimes voice of dead person included in any feature program in order to refer something
archieve:a collection of historical documents or records providing information about a place, institution, or group of people.any stored content
slug: saving data pm hard disk and duration should mention giving such information on archive it would be termed as slug
courtesy title :mentioning the source where you retrive the data from, would termed as courtesy title

ATR": Audio tape recorder: A method of recording sound by electromagnetic pulses on a sensitised plastic strip
VTR:A method of recording television pictures by electromagnetic pulses on a sensitised plastic strip.
cross fade:

The technique where a DJ, producer or engineer fades out the out going track at the same time as fading in the new track.




moderator:moderator is a person whose role is to act as a neutral participant in a debate or discussion, holds participants to time limits and tries to keep them from straying off the topic of the questions being raised in the debate.
narrator: the one who read script




Omnidirectional microphones are directional mics that pick up sounds from all directions. When you either don’t want highly-focused sound captured, or are trying to record audio in an unpredictable setting, these are a great option. For example, most lavalier microphones (often called “lav mics”) are omnidirectional which, when clipped to your talent’s lapel, allows you to capture what they’re saying even when they turn their head and their mouth isn’t pointed at the mic.


Unidirectional Microphones are microphones that only pick up sound with high gain from a specific side or direction of the microphone. Thus, if a user is speaking into a unidirectional microphone, he must speak into correct side, normally called the voice side, of the microphone in order to get good gain on the recording. This is in contrast to omnidirectional microphones, which pick up sound equally from all directions of the microphone




Bidirectional microphones (also called figure-of-eight microphones) are microphones that pick up sound well, or with high sensitivity, from the front and back but poorly, or with low sensitivity, from the sides.

The above illustration shows a bidirectional microphone sound pick-up pattern. This pattern shows that a bidirectional microphone picks up lobes of sound of equal sensitivity on opposite sides of the diaphragm (front and back) and steep nulls at right-angles to the diaphragm (the sides).

Bidirectional microphones are used in applications where sound is recorded from the front of the micrphone and back of the microphone, but not the sides. An example of this is a Q&A lecture or presentation, where a professor gives a lecture to an audience and accepts questions from them. A microphone needs to pick up the speech of professor from the front and the questions asked from the back in the audience. This is a practical example of where bidirectional microphones are needed.

on air studio: for live broadcast

off air studio:for planning other programs