Public Speaking:

1. Public Speaking: V OICE

2. OBJECTIVES • Identify the 4 steps in the process of voice production • Explain ways to improve articulation • Explain how volume, intensity, emphasis, rate, pause, framing, pitch, and inflection improve vocal effectiveness • Understand questions to think about in order to improve articulation

3. 4 Steps of Voice Production • Respiration – breathing • Vibration – expelling air over your vocal chords • Resonation – amplifying sound • Articulation – changing sound to intelligible speech

4. Improve Articulaton • Avoid weak qualities: breathy, raspy, shrill, nasal, husky • Speak with sufficient air pressure from the diaphragm • Speak with a relaxed throat and vocal chords to avoid shrillness • Speak using all resonators without overusing or underusing the nose and sinuses

5. Vocal Effectiveness • Volume – speaking loudly or softly • Intensity – showing emotion; expelling more air from you diaphragm • Emphasis – stressing certain words • Rate – speaking quickly or slowly • Pause – placing silences between words, phrases • Framing – placing a pause before and after a word or phrase • Pitch – speaking high or low • Inflection – varying your pitch

6. Emphasis exercise • “I don’t want to go.” • Speaker’s own will • Repeating a strong feeling • Speaker will go, but doesn’t want to • Speaker wants to do something else

7. “Hot Air Balloon” Exercise • Read handout and practice • Read it aloud to a partner • Volunteer(s) to read to class?