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That 'esss' sound is sibilance, it's annoying. Really annoying, it cuts through and hurts your ears. Worse there is no physical way of getting rid of it :/ . So you have 2 choices:

That 'esss' sound is sibilance, it's annoying. Really annoying, it cuts through and hurts your ears. Worse there is no physical way of getting rid of it :/ . So you have 2 choices:

a. Get a de-esser and calibrate it towards where your specific sibilance frequencies are to be found. Annoyingly they are different for each person, and in quite distinctly different groups depending on if a person as a traditionally male or female voice. Mine is at 8Khz, which is towards the high end, but yours will be different, you can find yours by using a multiband analyser, and seeing what frequencies you produce when saying sibilant words, then using hardware or software, process it out. This is difficult, and wholly unnecessary, which is why only {{strikethrough|Arseholes}}Radio 3 and ClassicFM still invest in the technology to have individual processing for each presenter that tackles these noises.

a. Get a de-esser and calibrate it towards where your specific sibilance frequencies are to be found. Annoyingly they are different for each person, and in quite distinctly different groups depending on if a person as a traditionally male or female voice. Mine is at 8Khz, which is towards the high end, but yours will be different, you can find yours by using a multiband analyser, and seeing what frequencies you produce when saying sibilant words, then using hardware or software, process it out. This is difficult, and wholly unnecessary, which is why only <s>Arseholes</s>Radio 3 and ClassicFM still invest in the technology to have individual processing for each presenter that tackles these noises.

b. Keep what your mouth is doing in mind as you say the sentence at the top of the section. Instead of curling your tongue to make the hissing noise through a small gap in your mouth, make a concious effort to force your tongue down. This will result in a softer more rolling ess sound, that won't hurt your listeners to hear. This is difficult to do at first, but after a few hours, it's pretty easy to get into. After my first term doing radio my mum noticed how much softer my voice was as a result.

b. Keep what your mouth is doing in mind as you say the sentence at the top of the section. Instead of curling your tongue to make the hissing noise through a small gap in your mouth, make a concious effort to force your tongue down. This will result in a softer more rolling ess sound, that won't hurt your listeners to hear. This is difficult to do at first, but after a few hours, it's pretty easy to get into. After my first term doing radio my mum noticed how much softer my voice was as a result.