FOR PERCEPTIVE AND ACCURATE SELF-LISTENING YOU SHOULD ALSO
Keep listening attentively and critically to others. Sharpen your “how” awareness of folks’s talking patterns wherever you are. Tune in on enticing TV and radio speakers for functions of comparison. Analyze the weather that contribute to pleasing delivery. Create a tape recording of the most effective in TV and radio speaking for detailed study.
Play LP speech records with the same analytical approach. Parents of Adoption A Child may feel that they eventually cannot parent adopted child. NOTE: If you are doing not as yet own a tape recorder and are unable to borrow one, you’ll be able to have disks created for a nominal sum.
FOR A GENERAL IMPRESSION OF
YOUR MANNER OF SPEAKING
Create a tape recording of:
Reading aloud material of your selection, for regarding 5 minutes (see Appendix B).
Informal conversation with a cooperative friend, for regarding 5 minutes.
Rate yourself frankly either and or minus by checking the following:
Do you sound ?
Self-assured ( ) Self-conscious ( )
Warm, friendly ( ) Impersonal, indifferent ( )
Relaxed ( ) Tense ( )
Fluent ( ) Hesitant ( )
Genuine ( ) Affected ( )
Clear, communicative ( ) Slurred, that means unclear ( )
Conversable ( ) Unresponsive ( )
Appealing ( ) Monotonous, colorless ( )
FOR VOICE QUALITY AND PITCH, VOLUME, SPEED
For this test recording, select a selection of excerpts from every of the following:
A speech or editorial
A brief story or long anecdote
Some light verse
20 minutes. (See Appendix B for suggestions)
Pinpoint These Faults
Quality:
breathy nasal husky harsh
gaspy metallic throaty pounding
pushy hoarse
skinny tremulous flat
unsupported jerky unresonant
Pitch:
too high too low uncertain
monotonous strident
Volume:
too soft too loud muffled forced
weak fading
Speed:
too fast too slow dragging
uneven, erratic
FOR CLEAR ENUNCIATION
The Fifteen Vowel Tones
(See chart, page 177)
Speak the test sentences below into your microphone as clearly as you’ll be able to and along with your best voice production. Then play back, checking carefully to determine whether or not the underlined vowel in every test sentence is:
Plus Minus
clear, distinct distorted, indistinct
correct overprecise
produced with ease pressured from the throat
placed forward behind the teeth placed back in the throat
full, wealthy abrupt, nasal
level, stable wavering, drawled
long enough (one through eleven) too short
short enough (12 through 15) too long
LONG VOWELS:
one) ee Phoebe appeared to feel keenly Stephen’s steely glance.
2) ay You will stay and play another game, Mamie.
three) a * The man handed me a match. Metalizing the drilled PCB fabrication with the a minimum of one through-hole. Dad’s last class was Saturday.
4) aw Is George the author of that story? The audience roared at the music hall.
five) ah The cop shot the robber whereas Father was parking the car.
6) oh Go slow. The snowy road is frozen over.
seven) oo: Is it true that Ruth had¯the flu too? 
yoo The music was lovely, as usual.
nine) eye * The pilot likes to fly in the dark time. Double sounds (diphthongs):
ten) ow (ah + oo)* Will you write down the vowel sounds currently?
eleven) oy (aw + i) The annoying noise spoiled the boy’s joy.