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level. You may have experienced the shock when you heard your voice from
a recording for the first time. If you find your voice unpleasant, try at least to
change the pitch during your speech.

Colour and tone, i.e. your voice can have a flavour of irony, anger, surprise or
other feelings. A voice of a person who fears is different from that who smiles, for
instance.

Even if you aren´t an actor, you should work on your voice control. Try to tape
your voice and you will probably be surprised what other people hear from you.
(But this is common; most people have the same feelings.) Anyway, you will
probably recognize some features you would like to get rid off. Your aim should
be to speak to the crowd in a conversational tone. This will need practice, but
will help substantially to improve the impression from the presentation.

So, vary your voice and the speed of speech. One of the major criticisms of
speakers is that they speak in a monotonous voice. Listeners perceive this type of
presentations as boring. It has been proved many times that people learn less
and lose interest more quickly when listening to those who cannot modulate their
voices. Remember this.

Voice control

Try to say or read several sentences in different colour and tone. Record your
speech and listen to different impressions you´ll get from it. Can you hear anger
on the one hand or smile on the other hand? Repeat and follow which mode is
most suitable for presentations.

Do the same with pace, pitch and volume. Learn from the recordings, control
individual aspects of your voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE7QJSO449o (5 Aspects of a Powerful

Speaking Voice 3:00)

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From the beginner to the mentor (Supporting strategies of education of teachers in Zlin region)
Fund of Educational Policy project, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports