QUALITY OF VOICE

QUALITY OF VOICE

Everyone should be an honest judge of his voice. Listen to own recorded voice on an audio-cassette. The voice can be corrected by practicing – reading aloud from books, magazines, and newspapers. Reciting poems loudly also helps.

Correcting ones‟ voice and regular practice in speaking helps and is very rewarding.
Quality of voice can be judged from the following three aspects:

1. Tone
 Pitch
 Texture

These are described below:
(1) Tone of speech
„Tones of the human voice are mightier than the strings of brass in moving the soul‟. We also know that army commanders‟ tone can catapult soldiers into action at the quick. Tones of voice convey a vast range of emotions – from anger to happiness, from sorrow to command, etc.

A mother `s tone soothes her baby. Film stars are trained to modulate the tone of their voice to suit the demands of the scene they are enacting. They spend many long hours in the dubbing studios to record the correct „tone‟ of their voice.

In the speech, it is the vocal sound and covers the choice of words, phrases, etc. It stands for intonation of their voice that expresses a particular meaning or feeling of the speaker/writer. It represents a certain attitude on the part of the speaker/writer.

Tone stands for elegance – a distinctive style. It is the rising, falling and other infections by words that are otherwise pronounced in the same manner that differentiate a speaker. It is that sound which is distinct and identifiable even when it is in harmonic relations with other sounds. It means the sound produced by the vibrations of the vocal cords that has syllabic stress imparts the desired tone that tunes in with the listeners.