Professional
speakers are like actors on stage, they perform to sell an idea or product to
their audience with their voice, facial expression and gestures. They demonstrate their enthusiasm with
showmanship not just by reading their speech or delivering a carefully memorized
one, but in a passionate rendition that will trigger the same response from
their audience.
In public
speaking, it is the voice that should be most of all commanding. It should be clear and loud enough to be
heard by the farthest of audience in the room or hall where you are speaking.
Nothing is more frustrating for an audience than having to strain their ears to
hear a speaker who whisper, mumble or stutter and having to pucker their
foreheads to try to understand their perplexing diction.
Practice
delivering your speech before the actual presentation and record it and listen
to yourself. If it is not what you would
like to listen to, then improve on it. Practice more, aim to be understood
clearly, pronounce your words well and pause to stress a point.
Not all
great speakers are born with great voices, but they learned to improve their
voices by vocal exercises and constant practice. So, follow what they are doing, rehearse often and exercise your vocal
chords to make your voice come out loud
and clear, then learn how to modulate to make it pleasing to your audience’s
ears.