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Elements of Effective Voice and Speech

Elements of Effective Voice and Speech. Quality, Volume, Expressiveness, Distinct Appropriateness. 1. Quality: Timbre, Tone Color, Texture. Breathy – Strident – Harsh Nasal - De-nasal – Throaty Thin - Hoarse. Volume. Low volume – often suggests timidity & weakness

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Elements of Effective Voice and Speech

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  1. Elements of Effective Voice and Speech • Quality, • Volume, • Expressiveness, • Distinct • Appropriateness

  2. 1. Quality: Timbre, Tone Color, Texture • Breathy – Strident – Harsh • Nasal - De-nasal – Throaty • Thin - Hoarse

  3. Volume • Low volume – often suggests timidity & weakness • High volume – often suggests pushiness

  4. Expressiveness • Vocal variety • From pitch to pitch • Varied rates • Varied volumes • Varied emphases and stresses

  5. Distinct – Accuracy & Clarity • Articulation/Diction/Enunciation • A process consisting of a series of overlapping ballistic movements that place varying degrees of obstruction in the pathway of the outgoing breath (air stream), and thus modify the size, shape, and coupling of the supra-glottal voice tract, and thus is sound produced. • Movement of lips, jaw, tongue, and velum (soft palate) to form, separate, & join individual speech sounds • Movement of vocal mechanism • Phoneme – distinct family of sounds – basic unit or sound family – -- the smallest section we can put sounds into (a psychological reality - does not exist in the real world • Allophone -- real-world counterpart to the phoneme – the acoustic reality – affected by what comes before & after – individual variants according to context

  6. Distinct – Accuracy & Clarity (2) • Articulation perhaps most common problem for most people • Mumbling – dropping sounds, sluggishness, failure to open mouths • “gitya” “gimme” “rekuhnize””innerested” • Garbling – substituting incorrect sounds for correct ones, distorting sounds, adding extra sounds • “deze, dem, wit” “athalete” acrost”

  7. Appropriateness • Normal voice is appropriate for age, gender, stature of person, context (audience, location, etc.), does not interfere with communication, or draw undue attention to itself – unobtrusive • Affected speech – inappropriate • Grammatical errors – inappropriate • Strive to emulate the pronunciation of cultivated and educated people of your area

  8. Appropriateness (2) • Dialects • A variety of language distinguished from other varieties of the same language • Language habits that a particular group have in common • Determined by 1) region & 2) social circumstances • Everyone speaks a dialect • Influences choice of words • Influences grammar changes • Influences pronunciation • Some say the media is leveling dialects/accents • Strive to emulate the pronunciation of cultivated and educated people of your area

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