PITCH,

VOLUME,
TONE, SPEECH
RATE
RATE
Rate of speaking refers to how
fast or slow you speak.
Vary your rate of speaking in a
middle range, staying away from
either extreme, in order to keep
your audience engaged.
VOLUME
Volume refers to how loud or
soft your voice is.
Voice Projection – when we
change the volume of our
voices in relation to a listener
or an audience.
PITCH
Pitch refersto how high or
low a speaker’s voice is. As
with other vocal qualities,
there are natural variations
among people’s vocal pitch.
TONE
 We tell an audience by our tone of voice whether
we are in fun or are passionate about our topic.
 The tone of voice shows our concern for the
audience and determines in the minds of the
audience whether or not we are sincere.
 The audience may say a speaker is boring even
though the content in very stimulating.
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PITCH, RATE, TONE,
VOLUME
Speech A: Good morning. How
are you? It’s been great, hasn’t it?
I’ve been blown away by the
whole thing. In fact, I’m leaving.
Just kidding!
Speech B: Fans, for the past two weeks
you have been reading about a bad break I
got. Yet today I consider myself the
luckiest man on the face of the earth. I
have been in ballparks for seventeen years
and have never received anything but
kindness and encouragement from you
fans.
Speech C: It is cold, and we have no
blankets; the little children are freezing to
death. My people, some of them, have run
away to the hills, and have no blankets, no
food. No one knows where they are –
perhaps freezing to death. I want to have
time to look for my children, and see how
many of them I can find.