Voice Modulation means moving
the pitch up and down, to make your conversation interesting; because if you
keep an even pitch throughout the sentence, you will sound odd, dull, boring or
confusing.
Voice
is GOD's gift and no one is born voice rich, it needs to be trained enough to
modulate, variate and able to perform and give the desired professional results.
Tips for Voice Modulation
Here are few components of voice modulation.
Pace or Speech speed: It must always be at a speed that
the listener can understand. Put the pace at that speed where the listener can
understand you properly.
Pitch or Depth of voice: Keep it at a level that is comfortable
for you and don’t strain your vocal cords.
Pause: Pauses should be given at required intervals like where
there is punctuation. It is given to let the listener absorb your information.
It is given for emphasis and dramatic effect.
Power: In order to create power in your voice you should not
speak from your mouth but from inside from the abdomen, make it commanding by
generating intensity in your voice.
Volume: Try and match your listener’s speech volume, unless they
are shouting. Try dropping your volume so that they have to drop their volume
to hear you. Maintain your volume according to the listener decrease or
increase (do not shout to increase it be loud).
Emphasis: Put emphasis on the key
words in order to provide contrast to your words bring out their
desired meaning.
Inflection: Inflection means ups and downs of words. In combination
inflection links meaning and feeling with your words.
A workshop on developing the skills w.r.t. Cinema & Media Industry is available in all contact classes of Film-Educator, Amit Agarwal, worldwide
A workshop on developing the skills w.r.t. Cinema & Media Industry is available in all contact classes of Film-Educator, Amit Agarwal, worldwide