Voice Quality DevelopmentPersonality Development Skills

Parameters of Quality Voice

Quality Voice

Pitch

Speed

Pause

Modulation

1.What is Pitch?

• Voice Level or Volume

• Low Pitch represents lack of confidence.

• High Pitch Represents over confidence.

• An effective pitch should be loud and clear.

To develop a right pitch-

• A person speaking in low pitch must practice reading Loudly and

• A person speaking in a high pitch must practice reading in a normal volume.

2. Speed

• In voice quality speed refers to words per minute.

• There are the speakers who-

• Speaks very fast

• Speaks very slow

• Fast speakers makes difficult for listeners to understand the speaker.

• Where as slow speakers becomes irritants.

To Develop a quality Speed-

• For Fast Speakers- They should practice reading in a slow speed i.e. they should read 2 words in a space of 5 seconds.

• For Slow Speakers- They should practice reading about 100 words per minute.

3.Pause

• It means taking appropriate breaks after certain words and sentences, which makes the listeners to gather the thoughts and to create an idea of the speaker’s mind.

• To develop right pause the speaker must practice reading paragraphs with appropriate pauses and tags and narrations.

4. Voice Modulation

• It is the Variation in voice.

• Take is sentence- This is my watch.

• Now speak this sentence with stress in different words each time-

• This is my watch.

• This IS MY watch. (shows authority)

• This is MY watch. (shows possession)

To Develop Modulation in Voice

• Read a paragraph.

• Select some words to stress on.

• Read the same paragraph again.