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Effective Voice

Effective voice requires speaking distinctly to be heard and understood, with a pleasing quality that engages listeners. Your voice expresses your personality, age, sex, and mental state. As a speaker, you must be aware of the quality of your own voice and any characteristics that could turn off listeners, such as being too high or low pitched, shrill, monotonous, dull, husky, or squeaky. Key aspects of an effective voice include appropriate volume, pitch, speed/pace, tone, pausing, phrasing, and emphasis. An effective voice is audible, pleasant, clear, fluent, and animated through changes in pitch, rate and force.

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Effective Voice

Effective voice requires speaking distinctly to be heard and understood, with a pleasing quality that engages listeners. Your voice expresses your personality, age, sex, and mental state. As a speaker, you must be aware of the quality of your own voice and any characteristics that could turn off listeners, such as being too high or low pitched, shrill, monotonous, dull, husky, or squeaky. Key aspects of an effective voice include appropriate volume, pitch, speed/pace, tone, pausing, phrasing, and emphasis. An effective voice is audible, pleasant, clear, fluent, and animated through changes in pitch, rate and force.

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Effective Voice

• Your first duty as a speaker is to be heard and


understood. It is not enough that you should utter
the words so distinctly that your listeners need not
strain their ears to catch the meaning of your
statements.
• You should also speak with a voice of pleasing
quality. Your voice is important in effective
communication and it can be your rewarding asset.
It is the expression of mental and emotional
condition together with your attitude during the
moments of speaking.
• Voice- the oral representation of words, is the chief
indication of your age, sex, and your personality.
• In the study of effective communication, it is
well for you to know the mechanics of vocal
delivery. The first thing that you should do is to
know the quality of your voice.
• Is your voice high- pitched or low pitched, shrill,
monotonous, dull, husky, or squeaky? With this
voice, you can turn off your listeners .
• Be conscious of your voice if you do not want
your speaking to be exercise in futility.
The Voice Aspects

• VOLUME
- loudness or the softness of
the sound
• PITCH
- highness or lowness of the
sound
• SPEED/ PACE
- fastness or the slowness of
delivery
e.g. when a person is excited or scared, speed
would normally go fast.
when a person is sad, speed would
normally go slow.
• TONE
- referring to the emotional
content of the sound
• PAUSING
- short stops in between
words, phrases, and sentences as
characterized by commas or
periods.
• PHRASING
- referring to the grouping of
words into messages.
This may be done for three purposes:
• to catch one’s breath
• to make meaning clear, and
• to emphasize an idea

e.g. The teacher says/ the class is noisy.//


The teacher /says the class/ is lazy.//
PRACTICE: The following practice selection is marked with single
and double diagonal lines to indicate pauses. The rhythm pause (/)
is a short pause. The thought pause (//) is a longer pause making
the end of a thought unit.

Each language / has its own music / with


characteristic cadence / rhythm / and
inflection.// If an adult is to learn to speak a
new language correctly / he must give full
value to these peculiar qualities.// It is as if he
were learning to play/ a musical instrument.//
• EMPHASIS
- the stressing of a word or
phrase to bring focus to a message.
Qualities of an Effective Voice
• Audibility- capable of being heard
• Pleasantness-pleasing to hear
• Clarity- precise articulation of vowel
and consonant sounds
• Fluency- smooth flow of words
• Animation- changes in pitch, rate and
force

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