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COMM 101 Video Eight- Delivering the Speech

by Adam Jenkins

📚 Main topics

Vocal deliverySpeak loudly enough to be heard, use a conversational or slightly faster pace, vary your voice, and use pauses strategically. Avoid rushing through a manuscript speech or relying on repetitive vocal fillers. 0:00
Physical deliveryMake eye contact across the room instead of focusing on notes, the screen, or one supportive listener. Keep facial expressions consistent with your words, and use natural gestures and movement rather than nervous or distracting habits. 4:08
Speech practiceRecord yourself, practice in front of a test audience when possible, and time your speech to check that it fits the assignment limits. 9:17

✨ Key takeaways

Project confidence and enthusiasmSpeakers with naturally soft voices should project more than usual, especially if anxiety makes them speak quietly. Enthusiasm helps keep the audience engaged. 0:31
Match nonverbal cues to your messageAudiences may trust facial expressions over words when the two conflict, so make sure your expressions convey the tone and seriousness of your speech. 5:40
Keep delivery naturalAvoid gripping the podium, clicking a pen, tapping, or making other repetitive movements that distract from the message. 7:42

🧠 Lessons learned

Use vocal variety and pauses purposefullyA flat, monotonous voice can make a speech seem boring, while a pause after important evidence gives the audience time to absorb it. 1:32
Spread eye contact aroundShift your attention among people in different parts of the room instead of latching onto a single listener who gives encouraging feedback. 4:39
Practice to improveRehearsal can reduce vocal fillers and reveal improvements to make in your timing and performance. 3:06

🏁 Conclusion/next steps

Prepare and deliver thoughtfullyPractice your speech, seek feedback, keep track of time, and aim for an enthusiastic delivery that combines clear vocal and physical communication. 9:17

Transcript excerpt

0:00 in our next couple chapters here we're continuing to talk about delivery and this one you can see we're talking about vocal elements and then the next one we'll be talking about bodily elements of delivery so starting with vocal elements of delivery for the most part what i see from people in class tends to be pretty good as far as these goes i'll mention a few exceptions to that as i go through this as far as speaking volume you of course want to make sure that you're speaking loud enough for everybody in your audience to be able to hear you clearly usually the only people i see who have a problem with volume it's almost always

0:31 people who have a naturally soft spoken voice plus they also have a little bit of speech anxiety on speech day so if that sounds like you you do have that soft spoken voice and you do have some anxiety on speech day make sure that you're projecting your voice more than you normally would make sure you're using your outside voice so to speak as far as speaking rate what you're going for is conversational or maybe sometimes just a little bit faster than conversational is a good thing one of my kind of golden rules of public speaking is that the speaker has to be

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