Speech Delivery

Read Chapters 15-16 of A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking – Fourth Edition by O’Hair, Rubenstein, & Stewart.

Instructions:

Select a favorite passage from a novel, a play, a poem, or another piece of writing. Read the passage silently to yourself several times, whiles trying to get a sense of what it means.

Next, read the passage aloud into a tape recorder. Then listen to yourself reading the passage. Does your voice convey the meaning you think the writer intended? How accurate are your pronunciation and articulation? How would you assess your pitch, rate, and volume? Is every word clearly audible?

Record another reading of the passage, this time try to improve the way you convey its meaning. Listen again. Now, identify your strengths and weaknesses in vocal delivery. How might these help or hinder your delivery of a speech?

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The vocal delivery of an individual affects the speech delivery of the same individual. This is because the audience is interested in the spoken words, how they are pronounced and the sound projection of the words to be communicated. The strengths and weaknesses of the individual’s voice will determine how that individual will deliver the speech (Metcalfe 2012).

My voice gets horse and fades away more often because of loud speaking and too much speaking. Due to this, I will have difficulties to deliver the speech because the voice will fade and become horse thus affecting the s…..

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