2. Modulation in public speaking is the next progression
from using the speaker skill sense stress. in addition
to stressing certain words, the adjustment of pace,
pitch, power, and volume are all incorporated into a
skill of modulating your speech.
This speaker skill not only will make what is said
more appealing to the ear. It allows speakers to
convey the emotions they feel about a subject.
People act and react more on emotion than on logic.
It is the way our brains are hard-wired.
Master this skill to help the audience to get into the
spirit of the information that is being delivered.
Modulation
3. Voice Modulation Tips
If you want to become an efficient speaker, you must
master the art of voice modulation. By mastering the art
of voice modulation, you can make your oral presentation
or speech more interesting, understandable and
memorable to your audience. Those who have acquired
sweet and melodious voice naturally also need to
exercise their voice for modulation, variation and
professional success.
The most important three speech organs of a human
being are lips, jaws and tongue. You have to exercise
these three speech organs like other parts of your body.
What you need most for this purpose is to read aloud
everyday for a few minutes. You can make it a habit. If
you do so regularly, you will soon discover the variety,
power, ability as well as faults of your vocal organs. Such
a regular practice will certainly help you to correct and
improve your voice modulation.
4. On every occasion whenever you speak or deliver lecture, you should bear in mind the
following points:
Ø Always convey your message with the variation in the pitch and tempo. Never deliver
your speech in a monotone as it will not only bore but also send your audience to sleep.
Ø Speak at a rate so that your audience can understand you because fast delivery
betrays a lack of confidence.
Ø Speak normally at about 125 to 150 words per minute. Check your speed and try to
bring it within this range.
Ø Pronounce words properly, putting stresses at the right syllables.
Ø Speak loud enough so that everyone in the audience can hear you clearly.
Ø Pause for a moment in between sentences to control your speed and approach better.
Ø Refrain from vocalized pauses and nasalization such as 'er', 'ah', 'unh', 'umm', etc.
Ø Take care that you do not repeatedly use such phrases as 'you see', 'I mean', 'What I
meant,' 'Understand?, 'Have you understood,' 'Clear?', 'Is it clear?', 'Was it clear?', etc.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
5. Modulating to Match Emotions
•Anger
•Fear
•Sadness
•Joy
•Happiness
•Disgust
•Curiosity
•Interest
•Surprise
•Acceptance
Robert Plutchik classified eight
primary emotions. A ninth one,
happiness (from the Paul Ekman
research) is included as it is not
always a synonym of joy.
It is believed these blend together
to form the full spectrum of human
emotional experience much the way
primary colors work together to
make the other colors.
6. Properly projecting emotions in a talk requires modulating
the appropriate parts of the talk.
Putting it into perspective. If you have a dog that
welcomes your attention, what will happen if you go up
and, with the kindest, softest voice start telling saying it is
the dumbest most worthless animal that ever walked on
the planet. It will come with tail wagging.
What happens if you raise your voice and speak in a
harsh tone?
Modulating the human voice requires using the right pace,
pitch, power, and volume for the most wanted outcome.
REMEMBER
7. USAGE OF EMOTIONS
Generally speaking, most people know the appropriate tone,
pace, volume and power to speak in for any given emotion. Here
are a few suggestions but remember, these are not rules. Keep it
real, keep it natural, and keep it.
Anger, fear (resulting in fight response), urgency or conviction
usually require an increase in power and increase in volume.
Some successfully increase the power and lower the volume
and effectively move audiences. Although there are no hard and
fast rules, the important thing is consistency.
Curiosity/interest slowing down (Pace) can build suspense or
anticipation.
Disgust might call for increased power and lower tone to make
a strong statement or decreased power and higher tone to make
it less accusatory.
Sadness may call for a lower tone of voice to share warmth and
feeling.
Surprise could call for a higher tonal quality equal to the
excitement and enthusiasm felt
8. How to Improve Speaking
Practice, observe, critique, and learn.
To be fair it should be noted that some skills and
speech challenges will require greater expertise to
learn. This is especially true with trying to overcome
physical reasons for speech difficulties. If faced with
challenges difficult to master consider a speech
therapist.
Many people use these qualities as part of every day
conversation. However, in front of an audience often
times speakers get tense. These qualities are lost from
our delivery.
Has that happened to you. Have you ever heard a
speech that was dry, dull, and monotone.
9. The Solution
Mastery of these skills in your speech delivery will make you
more confident. Confidence will enable you to better use these
qualities. The result will be speech mastery.
That mastery will enable more persuasive speeches.
Informative speeches that are remembered. Motivational
speeches that move the audience.
Mastery will also help you adapt these as presentation skills to
wow your audience.
Note the speaking skill exercises. You can practice these out
loud and you can practice them in your imagination. Both will
help you improve in these qualities and turn them into skills to
be used in your delivery.
Speaking is an art that few have mastered. Anyone can learn
these principles and be able to master the fundamentals. If you
learn to master presentation skills Speechmastery will result.
Make it a goal to master the most wonderful gift of speech.
10. You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than
anyone else.
--Albert Einstein
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