Vocal Variety - Be enthusiastic - Nothing succeeds like enthusiasm.

Once
the audience can spot that you have a passion for your subject, they'll want
you and will ignore any imperfections or emissions.

If you've taken the time out to deliver the presentation and they've taken
the time out to listen to you then you both deserve to feel interested,
engaged, inspired, motivated, connected, and convinced. My sound advice
is that you must feel interested, engaged, inspired, motivated, connected,
and convinced if you want your audience to feel it too.

How do you do that? You can do that by creating a warm, welcoming, and
appealing atmosphere for your audience. Your vocal variety that includes
your quality of voice, tone, pitch, and pace of speaking serves as a signal to
your listeners on what is being stressed, what needs more attention, what's
amusing and interesting, and when it's time to move on to another topic.

Without such expression your audience will lose their focus, miss your
meaning, and ignore the impact. When it comes to vocal variety you want
to keep the letter "P" to guide you in your presentation:

Projection, Pitch, Pace, Pause, and Pronunciation.

Projection / Volume
Voice projection varies based upon 3 factors:
 Number of people in the audience
 Distance between the speaker and the audience
 Environment
Pitch - You would change your pitch in a presentation just as you would do
while pitching (bowling) in a cricket match in order to keep the batsman on
alert. By changing the tone of your voice, you signal to your audience that
something important is being discussed or a new idea is coming and they
should listen up or they will miss it. To practice pitching chose a random
words and say it as many ways as you can.

Milk and cookies: Angrily, happily, sadly, lovingly, despairingly, laughingly,

importantly, cunningly, shyly, etc.

Choose a phrase or line and practice before you present.

Practice saying someone's name happily, lovingly, shyly, laughingly,

cunningly, sadly, angrily, etc.

Pace - Think about the time when you were nervous while delivering a
presentation or you were attending a presentation in which the speaker
appeared nervous.

What did you notice about the speaker's pace? The speaker was probably
racing through the presentation trying to cover a mile a minute hoping that
by picking up the pace the whole thing would be over sooner.

The audience may not have been able to remember much if they were able
to understand anything at all.

When we get nervous, a rush of adrenaline takes over and we speed up our
words and out breathing.
One of the ways to combat our nerves or even create the illusion of self-
confidence is to manage an even and steady pace throughout most of the
presentation.

If you think you are already doing this, it is likely that you sound one way to
yourself and another way to your audience.

Speak as if you were speaking to a group of young children. When we are

speaking to young children, we naturally reduce our pace and increase our
energy level in order to ensure that they understand us and that they are
paying attention.

When you take the time and enthusiasm to connect to your audience, they
will be more inclined to connect to you rather than their mobile phones.

You may want to mix the pace a bit. While slow and steady wins the race.
While a leisurely pace conveys comfort, picking up the pace conveys
excitement, passion, and emotion.

A useful technique in deciding when to speed up is to take your slides or

script and select the spot where you want the audience to feel more
motivated, stimulated, or lively, highlight those parts, and practice speeding
up in just those parts, followed by resuming to your pace.
Pause - Is a powerful way to give emphasis to important concepts.

Pauses should come as a natural result of you giving more stress to a

particular word, sentence, or idea.

In addition, as speakers we give far more information than can our speakers
absorb it. Pauses give our listeners a well-needed break to catch up.

Of course, you don't want your listeners to wonder what your pauses mean.
Use them appropriately and sparingly.

Go through your written notes and decide where your audience would need
pauses to understand key concepts.

Pronunciation - Nothing can undermine your credibility as a speaker and

as a professional more than mispronouncing anything be it the names of
your audience members, aspects of a product, or a disease, you must learn
and memorize the right way of pronouncing each and every one of these
elements.