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Is using voice modulation during verbal communication a better way of speaking?

 
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During verbal communication, one can communicate normally or using voice modulation.  Is using voice modulation during verbal communication a better way of speaking?
 
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Monica,

If you are talking about electronically altering your voice, that is very irritating, but if you are asking if you should talk monotone or highly animated, then neither of those are right either.

A good speaker knows how and when to emphasis using slight tonal modulation of their voice, or slight volume changes.  Think of a good speaker, one you enjoy listening too.  listen for how they emphasize and contrast things using voice inflections.

nobody likes to listen to a monotone presentation, but no body like to listen to a person that is inappropriately using voice inflections or volume in their voice either.

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Voice modulation is also very language/dialect-specific. "Bombay Welsh" is famous for its pitch modulations, but Received Pronunciation English is quite flat, aside from a tendancy to drop pitch at the end of sentences, Modulating pitch upwards in RP makes the listener assume a question, generally. English in general is heavy on accented syllables using loudness for stress, whereas many languages are more or less even-volume. That's just 2 factors, not even including sound shifts (how much, if any, you roll your 'r's) or alter/elide sounds ("pass me that bo'tl).

So you first must attend to normal modulations, then decide when to alter them to make yourself more auditorily appealing. And of course, do so judiciously. Overdo it and people won't take you seriously.
 
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Les Morgan wrote:

A good speaker knows how and when to emphasis using slight tonal modulation of their voice, or slight volume changes.  Think of a good speaker, one you enjoy listening too.  listen for how they emphasize and contrast things using voice inflections.

nobody likes to listen to a monotone presentation, but no body like to listen to a person that is inappropriately using voice inflections or volume in their voice either.

Les



Thanks. I always spoke in monotone way. I will try to learn how to emphasize and contrast things using voice inflections.
 
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Tim Holloway wrote:
And of course, do so judiciously. Overdo it and people won't take you seriously.



Thanks. Understood that one has to know how much to do and not over do.

Tim Holloway wrote:

So you first must attend to normal modulations,



What does attending normal modulations mean
 
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It means to pay attention (attend) to vocal modulations, how speaker's voices change as they talk, changes in pitch, volume, speed, and possibly other things.
 
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Mike Simmons wrote:It means to pay attention (attend) to vocal modulations, how speaker's voices change as they talk, changes in pitch, volume, speed, and possibly other things.



Ok. On a level good speakers may speak most of the words normally and slightly modify tone/pitch/volume for the words that they wasn't to emphasize ?
 
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