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Tip #10: How to have Vocal Variety

In high school I was chosen to be a narrator for the spring concert. Confidently I stood on stage and delivered to several hundred people. My speech was clear, easy to listen to, but lacked vocal variety. The music director told me I was emphasizing every single word. It is like having a sentence with every word in caps.

This made me easy to understand but can quickly bore the audience.

What’s the answer?

Presentation Tip #10: Only Emphasize 2-3 Words in a Sentence.

Look at the following sentence:

To be successful you need to have goals and a plan to reach them.

If you were delivering it, you might say:

To be successful you need to have goals and a plan to reach them.

In High-school I delivered this line like this:

To be successful you need to have goals and a plan to reach them.

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