Spiel, Enunciation and some remedies

Step Up Your Spiel

You naturally talk faster when your zest to do your best gets into gear. Remember you are trying to arouse interest in what you have to say, and the fastest way to get your voice into a high gear is to step up the zeal of your spiel.

Enunciation

Your speaking voice may be pleasant, but if it isn’t loud enough who will know what you’ve said? Your vocal tones may have all the clear pear-shaped perfection of the “How now brown cow” graduate, but if your diction sounds affected, it carries no conviction. Your speech may be a masterpiece, but if your delivery is song-song, no one will know the wonderful things you came to say because the hum will lull your listeners to sleep.

Some Simple Remedies

The volume of your voice may be increased without letting it sound artificial. Do not hesitate to test its volume when you start in to speak. Ask whether you reach the outer fringes of your audience. Even the best speech falls flat when it can’t be heard, and almost all listeners appreciate a speaker’s effort to please them. The “almost all” is accentuated in a story told by Homer Livingston, President of Chicago’s First National Bank.

Livingston was addressing a group of bankers and the microphone proved to be faulty. He raised his voice and asked whether the men in the back row could hear. One of them hollered “No” and with that a chap in front stood up: “I can hear,” he called back, “and I’ll be glad to change places!

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