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Vocal coach Roger Love, author of the book Set Your Voice Free…

Hint number two - you're not speaking loud enough. Most people, it's like they're talking to themselves, they're like "what do you think about that? Well, I really don't know about that 'cause I'm talking to myself." It's that they open their mouth, and there's people in the room, but they don't have enough volume to carry their sound all the way out to where those people are in the room. You need to talk louder, you need to have your stomach coming in when you're breathing, and you need more melody.

And by melody, Roger means use more inflection in your voice.

Stop thinking that you're an exciting person and you can only talk with, like this: as if there's only one note on the piano - one key on the piano - and it was just Johnny could only say one note and the note he said was this -"ah." Boring. You need to be able to go up and down the range, like a good song. So I say, all speaking is public speaking. When you open your mouth, you have a responsibility to the listeners. You've got to get that beautiful, strong, powerful, influential sound out of you and fill up the room, and whoever is listening is blessed by the opportunity to hear you.

You can link to Roger's website from ours, somethingyoushouldknow.net. I'm Mike Carruthers, and that's Something You Should Know.