This affects your word and syllable stress. Practice: Read a rhyme such as "The Ballad of Green Broom." Slow down each time you say, "Broom, Green Broom" and the words that rhyme with it. How fast or slow you articulate the words and sounds. Or try the numbers one through eight, going up the scale and coming down again. Learn to say, "no, no, NO." Recite the "do, re, mi" scale, going from a high tone to a low one. Let tones glide high, then slide down low. Hold our tones level and high today then level and low tomorrow, I say. Practice: Say the following, letting your voice follow the words: "Let your voice come down evenly, smoothly as a sigh. Different from volume, pitch and inflection reflect your overall tone. Practice: Say the word no over and over, starting very softly (almost whispering) and working your way to very loud (almost shouting). Speakers have many tools at their disposal for building vocal variety: Once you have started to listen to your voice objectively, you're ready to tackle the fine points of controlling it. Evaluate yourself often use the form at the end of this chapter. Use a tape recorder and the exercises in this chapter and listen to your progress. Make a habit of speaking aloud to yourself every day. Look in the mirror to see how you are making the sounds. Listen to how classically trained actors such as James Earl Jones or Meryl Streep use their voices, as instruments of feeling. Develop a love for good speech listen to audiocassettes of powerful speakers reading book excerpts. Read to the kids, to the dog recite in the shower. Use your own words, the newspaper, anything. You should practice speaking aloud often. Getting your voice ready for a speech means listening to the way you start sentences, form vowels, and pause after periods.
But in those instances you're listening to them, not to yourself. You may think you know your voice after all, you're always speaking to people at work, at home, and on the phone. The first step to a powerful voice is getting to know yours. You can polish your voice just as you polish your speech. But that doesn't mean coming up with stories and jokes exclusively you can use your voice to get attention immediately. To battle an audience's short attention span, speakers need to insert something interesting every three to four minutes. But it should be your greatest aid in being interesting and exciting, because it can insert variety into a speech with such ease. It either conveys control and confidence or proves a lack of both.
A monotonous tone, mumbling, lack of clarity, and poor enunciation leave the audience noticing your voice and not your words.Ī voice is not a neutral thing: It's either a wonderful asset or a serious liability. As anyone who has heard a droning speaker knows, the wrong voice, besides making a bad impression, wrecks an otherwise compelling speech.
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Yet the sound of our voice is something we give little thought to.īut you have to be conscious of your voice - and of how to change it - throughout your speech. The verbal aspect accounts for only 7 percent of how we are perceived how we look forms 55 percent of the impression, and how we sound a surprising 38 percent. People's initial perceptions of each other break down three ways: visually (how we appear), vocally (how we sound), and verbally (what we say). Whether you bore or enthrall - a lot depends on how you sound. Over the phone, it's responsible for the entire impression you make on your listener. Westside Toastmasters is located in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California Chapter 8: Fault #5: Monotonous Voice and Sloppy Speech Overview
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