Your voice is a vital part of your personality. It may be a valuable asset of a severe handicap. In any career, the effect of your speaking voice has a great bearing on how you get along. This is particularly true of the so-called “voice occupations,” such as teaching, acting, singing, selling, and preaching. But you voice is not only important in a career. The pitch or tone of you voice is something your friends and associates have to hear whenever they are with you. Also, your conversation reflects your attitudes, your intelligence, your home background, and your education. What you say and how you say it tells other people much about you as a parson.

Good speech qualities include pleasant tone, clear enunciation, variation in volume, and natural accent. Poor qualities include slurring, mumbling, monotone, whining, nasal tone, loudness, and affected accent the most common speech defect is poor articulation. But this can easily be corrected because it is largely the result of laze speech habits.

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