8. Speaker's voice

• The voice of a speaker can greatly affect the success of his or her speeches.
• A golden voice is certainly an asset but some of the most famous speakers in history had undistinguished voices.
• Volume: The loudness or softness of the speaker’s voice.
• Adjust your voice to the acoustics of the room, the size of the audience, and the level of background noise.
• Pitch: The highness or lowness of the speaker’s voice.
• Inflection: Changes in pitch. Give your voice luster, warmth, and vitality
• Monotone: A constant pitch or tone of voice. (Avoid using this)
• Rate: the speed at which a person speaks.
• Avoid speaking slowly or quickly
• Rate: Be sure to include reminders about the delivery on your copy of the speech outline
• Pause: a momentary break in the vocal delivery of a speech.
• Pause: Make sure you pause at the end of thought units and not in the middle
• Vocal variety: Explained as changes in a speaker’s rate, pitch, and volume that give the voice variety and expressiveness.
• Vocal variety:

  Modulate your voice to communicate your ideas and feelings.
• Pronunciation: The accepted standard of sound and rhythm for words in a given language.
• Pronunciation: Should practice your speech in front of your trusted relatives or friends who are proficient in the language.
• Articulation: physical production of particular speech sounds.
• Sloppy articulation: the failure to form particular speech sounds crisply and distinctly.
• Dialect: Variety of a language distinguished by variations of accent, grammar, or vocabulary.
• It is better not to use any particular dialect.