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Revisiting: We Need More Words to Describe Audio Stories

HowSound by Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org

Dec 2, 202523:33Technology

When you limit language, you limit thinking. When you limit thinking, you limit creativity. When you limit creativity, audio storytellers wind up making the same thing over and over and over again and that's not good. In...

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Revisiting: We Need More Words to Describe Audio Stories is an episode from HowSound by Rob Rosenthal/PRX/Transom.org. When you limit language, you limit thinking. When you limit thinking, you limit creativity. When you limit creativity, au...

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