While watching the speech buddy videos for this week, one of the topics mentioned was using audience centered speech. Audience centered speech is where you use language that helps make the audience feel included, thus making them more attentive to the speech. Some of the words that help include are we us you and I. Another way of helping to keep the attention of the audience includes using humor, as long as it doesn't offend the audience, and language that helps the audience to use their imagination. I especially liked the "Effective uses of vocal delivery". Making sure you have the proper voice projection is important. If the audience can't hear what you are saying they will strain their ears and will be the only thing that they remember about your speech. Pitch is the next item in vocal delivery. A lower pitched voice is easier on the human ear, making listening to your speech more pleasant. Rate is something that you need a lot of variety in. If you keep to one rate for too often, you will appear monotonous and will lose and bore the audience. Vocal variety is when you take volume, pitch, and rate and mix a veriaty of all three into the speech, and is important to do when you want to keep your audiences attentio. Articulation is also very important since it is important to make sure what you say is clear to the audience.
I liked how there was several different examples for each chapter. It definitely makes it easier for me to learn from and apply to my own speech. :)
I agree with your post, I thought the videos were pretty interesting this week. They did a pretty good job showing the different types of how to talk and how not to talk. The tone was very interesting, I think we all hate when we have to listen to someone who is very monotone. It is important that we do not become those monotone people! Like you mentioned the rate is very important too. You can always tell if someone had memorized the speech and just is trying to go fast to make sure they don't forget anything. I do like the multiple examples they provide as well, it helps me understand the differences much easier.
ReplyDeleteI think the speech buddy videos did a good job of portraying this subject. It was an easy subject for them to show examples of each aspect of vocal delivery being done correctly and incorrectly. Finally, when they brought all of them together and showed how each aspect was important to the overall delivery, it was easy to see how much it affected the flow. The vocal delivery is a very important aspect of the speech so the more examples that we are able to see of it, the better we will be able to apply it to our own speeches.
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