Voice Control Vocabulary

1.volume – how loud or soft your

voice is

How do you control volume?

2.rate – how fast or slow you speak

How do you control rate?

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Demonstration – say alphabet slowly and then quickly

3.pitch (tone)– how high or low one’s

voice is

How do you control pitch?

Demonstration – Purse lips, breath, start at as high a pitch possible. Keep the lowest pitch and speak at that pitch for three minutes. Repeat 2 times a day until your vocal chords have gotten accustomed to the pitch.

Does a person’s pitch reveal anything about his/her character?

Most people draw conclusions about an advertised product based on an announcer’s deep voice, because a deep resonant voice may sound like it belongs only to someone trustworthy.

So when you answer the phone, take a breath and remember your lowest pitch. Say “hello” in that pitch. Speak as long as you can in the lower pitch.

4. inflection – change in pitch; altering

pitch

5. emphasize – Stressing a word using volume

Exercise sheet needed.

5. Articulation or Enunciation

How clearly and precisely you speak

How can you control articulation?

Open your mouth bigger so sounds can evolve

Over exaggerate your lip and mouth movement

Hold the length of sound or duration

Duration – hold sound, length of sound

As a result of years of informal, careless speaking, most people acquire faulty speech habits that they unconsciously use every day. If you listen to vocal

messages closely, you will find that errors in articulation may be placed in several broad classes. As you examine the following errors, you may even discover some of your own weaknesses.

Sounds Examples of words

D for th the, with, that

T for th north, thought, anything

F for th truth, teeth, both

V for th with, mother, rather

In for ing doing, going, being

Er for or for, or

Jeetyet?

Idoe wanna go.

Whudja halfer breakfast smornin?

Hazzeol papern thje cornera thyard been pitup?

Jilluni are gonna star the car bar selves.1.A big black bug bit a bold bald bear and the bold bald bear bled blood badly.

2.A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuits.

3.A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.

4.A dozen double damask dinner napkins.

5.A gazillion gigantic grapes gushed gradually giving gophers gooey guts.

6.A knapsack strap.

7.A lusty lady loved a lawyer and longed to lure him from his laboratory.

8.A missing mixture measure.

9.A pack of pesky pixies.

10.A pessimistic pest exists amidst us. Knife and a fork bottle and a cork that is the way you spell New York.

11.A skunk sat on a stump. The skunk thunk the stump stunk, and the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

12.A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, “is it tougher to toot or tutor two tooters to toot?

13.Ah shucks, six stick shifts stuck shut!

14.Alice asks for axes.

15.Amidst the mists and coldest frosts, with stoutest wrists and loudest boasts, he thrusts his fist against the post still insists he sees the ghosts.

16.I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop. Where she sits she shines, and where she shines she sits.

17.Lonely lowland llamas are ladylike.

18.Willie Wonka worked while Tillie walked down Waverly Way.

19. Crush grapes, grapes crush, crush grapes.

20. Don’t pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.

Articulation Test Name_________________________ Date_______________

Addressing the Podium (10 points each)

______Approach/Leave the podium

______Stance

______Hands Flat on Podium

______Timing (before/after speaking)

_______Eye Contact/Scanning the Room

Articulation (10 points each)

______1._________________________

______2._________________________

______3._________________________

______4._________________________

______5._________________________

Articulation Test Name_________________________ Date_______________

Addressing the Podium (10 points each)

______Approach/Leave the podium

______Stance

______Hands Flat on Podium

______Timing (before/after speaking)

_______Eye Contact/Scanning the Room

Articulation (10 points each)

______1._________________________

______2._________________________

______3._________________________

______4._________________________

______5._________________________

Pronunciation

Nothing stands out more negatively in a speaker than the way he/she mispronounces words!

In our society,

correct pronunciation = education level

education level = high salary

Poor pronunciation develops from environment ( family, friends, city, section of country where one lives) which then becomes a bad habit.

Learning to pronounce words correctly and clearly requires effort and time.

Two ways to pronounce words correctly:

1. Know the word. Use a dictionary.

Tuesday NOT too days

Asked NOT ax ed

Yesterday NOT yes ti day

Tomorrow NOT tu morrah

Escape NOT ex scape

Police (puh lesse) NOT p leese, pa leese, po leese

Library NOT lie berry

Picture NOT pit cher (pick cher)

Yesterday NOT yes er day

February NOT feb u ary

Converse NOT Conversate

Romantic NOT romantical

More fun NOT Funner

Best NOT Bestest

It is mine NOT mines

Going to NOT gonna

Got to NOT gotta HAVE TO

Yous got NOT You have

2.Voice each syllable carefully so the entire word

sounds crisp and understandable. Use your

articulators; most importantly open your mouth

and move your jaw.

Exercise: The five vowel sounds with duration (the length of sound)

A (ay) betrayed - be-traayed

E (ee) received - re-ceeved

I (eye) revise - re-viise

O (oh) behold - be-hoold

U (you) through - thruuu

Practice until you produce a full, forceful sound and can feel the muscles in your lips and mouth working. Do not hesitate to over exaggerate your lip and mouth movements.

My Fair Lady

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intensity – a way of communicating emotions; forcing more air out of the diaphragm

emphasis – varying volume and intensity gives emphasis to words spoken

pause – a stop before a word in speaking

framing – a stop before and after a word in speaking

Emphasis

Varying volume and intensity (way of communicating emotions; forcing more air out of diaphragm)

Also, called stressing or accenting (PUNCHING), makes words stand out by saying a word louder, pausing around it, or giving it a different tone.

I love you.

Emphasizing Words

You can change the entire meaning of a sentence by emphasizing different words.