Improve Voice and Speech

Speaking well can have a dramatic effect on your professional and private life. you may not realize how important the sound of your voice is, or how much you yourself judge other peoples by the way they sound. yet experts maintain that the impression you makes on others often owes much more to how you speak- the pitch and expressiveness and clarify of your voice, for example- than to what you actually say.

From the quality of your voice and your manner of saying things, people will deduce a great deal about your personality in general and your feeling at the moment of speaking- whether you are feeling confidence, say, frightened, excited, or depressed, whether you are charming, aggressive, or friendly. they will glean information about :

1- your age and sex- if you are speaking on the telephone and they cannot see you.

2- your physical and physiological condition- poor health often reveals itself in the voice, as does stress.

3- your personality- if you always speak very quickly, for example, you may give the impression of lacking          confidence. if, on the other hand, you drawl your words, you will tend to sound bored or supercilious.

4- your geographical and social origins, above all your accent.

5- your mood- a liltingly 'buoyant'  voice, full of expressive changes of pitch and pace, suggest a buoyant mood, whereas a tired or flat voice suggest a more reflective, subdued mood or even depression.

6- your intelligence or expertise - clear, confident articulation usually indicates a firm and astute grasp of a subject, stumbling or hesitant speech often indicates confusion or uncertainty.

such judgments are surprisingly accurate- though not invariably so. sometime the impression you create by the way you speak will be unfair, negative or misleading. you may be world expert on aviation, for instance, but if you mumble nervously when giving a lecture, you will probably come across as far less knowledge than you really are.

A politician may have harsh, strident voice, or perhaps a jerky, halting style of speaking either way, this is likely to irritate audience, and so effect the speaker's prospects of success.

No one however, needs to be a slave to poor speaking habits. these habits can be broken- and breaking them will certainly be worth the effort. improve your speech and boost your confidence, sharpen the impression you make on others and communicate more effectively at work, in public, and in your private life.

Not that, in learning to speak better, you should ever speak in a way that is unnatural to you. your voice is unique to you, just as your fingerprints are, and to distort it- as by aping a supposedly 'correct' accent is to distort your true personality and emotional range when speaking.

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