Principle of speech delivery
- 1. PRINCIPLE OF SPEECH DELIVERY: MODULATION REPORTED BY: Caitlin Sumi L. De Leon
- 2. Modulation in public speaking is the next progression from using the speaker skill sense stress. in addition to stressing certain words, the adjustment of pace, pitch, power, and volume are all incorporated into a skill of modulating your speech. This speaker skill not only will make what is said more appealing to the ear. It allows speakers to convey the emotions they feel about a subject. People act and react more on emotion than on logic. It is the way our brains are hard-wired. Master this skill to help the audience to get into the spirit of the information that is being delivered. Modulation
- 3. Voice Modulation Tips If you want to become an efficient speaker, you must master the art of voice modulation. By mastering the art of voice modulation, you can make your oral presentation or speech more interesting, understandable and memorable to your audience. Those who have acquired sweet and melodious voice naturally also need to exercise their voice for modulation, variation and professional success. The most important three speech organs of a human being are lips, jaws and tongue. You have to exercise these three speech organs like other parts of your body. What you need most for this purpose is to read aloud everyday for a few minutes. You can make it a habit. If you do so regularly, you will soon discover the variety, power, ability as well as faults of your vocal organs. Such a regular practice will certainly help you to correct and improve your voice modulation.
- 4. On every occasion whenever you speak or deliver lecture, you should bear in mind the following points: Ø Always convey your message with the variation in the pitch and tempo. Never deliver your speech in a monotone as it will not only bore but also send your audience to sleep. Ø Speak at a rate so that your audience can understand you because fast delivery betrays a lack of confidence. Ø Speak normally at about 125 to 150 words per minute. Check your speed and try to bring it within this range. Ø Pronounce words properly, putting stresses at the right syllables. Ø Speak loud enough so that everyone in the audience can hear you clearly. Ø Pause for a moment in between sentences to control your speed and approach better. Ø Refrain from vocalized pauses and nasalization such as 'er', 'ah', 'unh', 'umm', etc. Ø Take care that you do not repeatedly use such phrases as 'you see', 'I mean', 'What I meant,' 'Understand?, 'Have you understood,' 'Clear?', 'Is it clear?', 'Was it clear?', etc. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
- 5. Modulating to Match Emotions •Anger •Fear •Sadness •Joy •Happiness •Disgust •Curiosity •Interest •Surprise •Acceptance Robert Plutchik classified eight primary emotions. A ninth one, happiness (from the Paul Ekman research) is included as it is not always a synonym of joy. It is believed these blend together to form the full spectrum of human emotional experience much the way primary colors work together to make the other colors.
- 6. Properly projecting emotions in a talk requires modulating the appropriate parts of the talk. Putting it into perspective. If you have a dog that welcomes your attention, what will happen if you go up and, with the kindest, softest voice start telling saying it is the dumbest most worthless animal that ever walked on the planet. It will come with tail wagging. What happens if you raise your voice and speak in a harsh tone? Modulating the human voice requires using the right pace, pitch, power, and volume for the most wanted outcome. REMEMBER
- 7. USAGE OF EMOTIONS Generally speaking, most people know the appropriate tone, pace, volume and power to speak in for any given emotion. Here are a few suggestions but remember, these are not rules. Keep it real, keep it natural, and keep it. Anger, fear (resulting in fight response), urgency or conviction usually require an increase in power and increase in volume. Some successfully increase the power and lower the volume and effectively move audiences. Although there are no hard and fast rules, the important thing is consistency. Curiosity/interest slowing down (Pace) can build suspense or anticipation. Disgust might call for increased power and lower tone to make a strong statement or decreased power and higher tone to make it less accusatory. Sadness may call for a lower tone of voice to share warmth and feeling. Surprise could call for a higher tonal quality equal to the excitement and enthusiasm felt
- 8. How to Improve Speaking Practice, observe, critique, and learn. To be fair it should be noted that some skills and speech challenges will require greater expertise to learn. This is especially true with trying to overcome physical reasons for speech difficulties. If faced with challenges difficult to master consider a speech therapist. Many people use these qualities as part of every day conversation. However, in front of an audience often times speakers get tense. These qualities are lost from our delivery. Has that happened to you. Have you ever heard a speech that was dry, dull, and monotone.
- 9. The Solution Mastery of these skills in your speech delivery will make you more confident. Confidence will enable you to better use these qualities. The result will be speech mastery. That mastery will enable more persuasive speeches. Informative speeches that are remembered. Motivational speeches that move the audience. Mastery will also help you adapt these as presentation skills to wow your audience. Note the speaking skill exercises. You can practice these out loud and you can practice them in your imagination. Both will help you improve in these qualities and turn them into skills to be used in your delivery. Speaking is an art that few have mastered. Anyone can learn these principles and be able to master the fundamentals. If you learn to master presentation skills Speechmastery will result. Make it a goal to master the most wonderful gift of speech.
- 10. You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. --Albert Einstein THANK YOU FOR LISTENING