Adjust your voice to your message

Adjust your voice to your message

message: Do you have trouble communicating your message to engage your listeners? Voice-over speakers, pod-casters and radio announcers only have the sound of their voice to effectively impress their listeners. Your vote is a distraction or an attraction for your audience to tune in or tune into.

Unless you do unique character voiceovers, here are three main approaches to speaking through the microphone to keep your listeners involved and improve the sound of your voice.

# 1. Set the overall tone for your target audience

The first three words you speak are critical. Instead of "talking down" to a listener, a conversation tone will always win an audience member because it immediately warms them up to hear your voice. By avoiding a silence, you can further expand your vocal impact to be encouraging, persuasive, and even dramatic as you continue.

A good practice is to take a deep breath with the diaphragm three times to help you relax before you are about to speak, and then keep breathing quietly over your microphone.

# 2. Emphasize keywords with different pitch strategies

The immediate approach to emphasizing the importance of your message is to speak certain words or sentences with extra volume. However, you gain more appeal if you use different pitches to emphasize your missive. Choosing key verbs, adjectives or nouns with changes in higher or lower pitches avoids a monotone. Practice saying 'ah' and raise and lower your pitches.

Choose from your keywords which tone fits together, for example curious, mysterious, exciting, cheerful, professional, sad, silent or any other emotion. Play with vocal nuances on your keywords. It is not necessary to emphasize every word, so be selective to know which words would work if you had a real conversation with a friend or colleague.

Don't make the sound sound like you are reading your content, record your speech and listen to it with your eyes closed. Do you allow expression and let your audience keep pace with you to understand your message?

# 3. Become familiar with the use of a microphone

Keep the same distance between your mouth and your microphone to speak clearly and have the right volume. Use your rehearsal microphone to analyze your voice, your breathing, your volume and expressive pitch.

A major challenge is to check speech for clear articulation to prevent your words from becoming unclear, and to control your pace, including the flow from one idea to another.

In general, you use your breathing to relax yourself for your next broadcast and you do a vocal warm-up to prepare your voice for work. It's time for you to give your best sound quality during your next on-air event!