How to Pronounce URLs in Podcasts
Filed under Podcasting
Web addresses can often be rather long and cumbersome, which may work fine in print, but don’t necessarily translate well to the spoken word. So what is the best strategy to handle URLs in podcasts?
How often have you received an e-mail from a friend or colleague that contains a link to an interesting web page, where the link spans two or three lines of the e-mail and contains all sorts of seemingly random numbers and characters? Quite often I suspect.
Accessing these sorts of links in an e-mail is really easy; just click on the link and bosh, you’re off to the website in question. However, if you had to speak the web address over the phone for example, it would be another matter entirely. So what is the best way to approach this problem of pronouncing web addresses in podcasts or via the spoken word?

