This slide will help you to understand about voice and accent neutralization.

1. Voice & Accent Neutralization

2. What we are going to learn today?
By the end of the session you will be able to:
 DefineVoice and Accent
 Importance of using an Accent
 Identify your own communication skill
 Benefits of sentence and word stress
 Identify the right intonation pattern
 Demonstrate effective communication with an Accent

3. Voice
The definition of a voice is a sound made by the mouth.
 An example of a voice is someone who sings beautifully.
 An example of a voice is someone reading out loud to a child.

4. Accent
 Accent is the distinctive manner of oral expression.
 In other way, accent is the way of speaking a particular
language.

5. Why are accents so important in learning to
speak a language?
The accents are an integral part of the spelling, so, that's part of "correct spelling".
An accent can completely change the meaning of a word, so they are important.
Example:
 Would you like some bread and butter?
 Wouldu like somebreadnbutter?

6. Use your own voice
There lived a black sheep in a nearby village. Every spring,
he shaved his black wool and sold it to the villagers.The
villagers made sweaters and socks from his black wool.

7. Use your own voice
Repeat aloud using one of the following voice characteristics. (One at a time)
 Very excited
 Like a gangster
 With a very old man/lady’s voice
 Like a radio/television announcer

8. Syllable Stress
 The syllable is the unit of rhythm.
 It tell us about the number of beats in a word.
We have 4 types:
1) Monosyllabic (run, in)
2) Bi-syllabic (heavy, auto)
3) Tri-syllabic (Infosys, consonant)
4) Polysyllabic (examination, alteration)

9. Intonation
Intonation is about how we say things, rather than what we say.Without
intonation, it's impossible to understand the expressions and thoughts that go
with words.
Example:
1) She got a dog.
2) She got a dog?

10. Effective Communication
Effective communication is key in any relationship.Allow Accent On
Business to show you some effective communication skills for the
workplace.
Content represents only 7% of what people remember after they
have heard you speak.The bulk of what people understand (93% of
it, actually) is conveyed through your gestures, the eye contact you
make with the crowd, your body language and movement, and your
tone of voice. Does your body language and tone of voice “say”
what you want it to say; what you intended?