IMPORTANCE OF VOICE ACCENT TRAINING IN YOUR CAREER

Shradha HRD
2 min readOct 17, 2019

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You may have a good knowledge of the English language i.e. vocabulary, endless grammar rules etc., still many a times, communicating becomes a struggle. Taking your English accent to another level is an easy and enjoyable task. It helps you leave a lasting impression on your listeners and boosts up your confidence while giving interviews. Also, you end up developing good personality if you possess great voice accent skills.

Apart from pronunciation and grammar, voice accent training gives you many other benefits. VOICE training talks about your pitch, vocal organs and articulation whereas ACCENT training deals with tone and intonation. Intonation is all about rise and fall in pitch, also termed as ‘speech music’. The change in pitch defines the tone of your speech.

Assessment of voice and accent is based on two parts, reading aloud followed by speaking. Reading aloud gives the idea of how articulate an individual is and speaking clears whether a person knows how and what to speak or not. According to voice accent experts, following the below guidelines can aid you with your voice and accent skills:

  1. Listen to the native speakers attentively.
  2. Watch good movies or follow newsreaders to enhance communication skills and vocabulary.
  3. Control your speech rate.
  4. Keep reading dictionary to know meanings, spellings and pronunciation.
  5. Record your audio speeches and listen so as to realize your common mistakes.
  6. Listen to good and motivational audios and videos on internet over and over again and try to imitate them.
  7. Read newspapers and magazines are also helpful for grasping vocabulary knowledge.
  8. Do some MOUTH EXERCISES to enhance clarity in voice and accent.
  9. Last but not the least, enroll for a voice accent training program.

Voice Accent Training: It helps you learn and apply the English speaking skills in an effective manner. To apply an impact on the listener, it is very crucial to speak clear and with proper word stress. For this, your mouth needs some warm-up exercises. Get trained from professional experts and improve your English speaking accent.

Now while getting trained, you may need to focus on eight major points in detail:

  1. The phonetics
  2. Jaw and articulation exercises
  3. Vowel and Consonant sounds
  4. Pronunciation
  5. Syllable and word stress
  6. Formation of sentences
  7. Voice modulation
  8. Speech therapy

An accent that is acceptable by all international community is called neutral accent irrespective of the listener whether he is Canadian, Australian, British or American. Speaking with your friends and relatives can be done in casual way but, officially you need to follow the neutral accent so as to be accepted globally. Most of all, FLUENCY and CONFIDENCE matter a lot and this comes with good practice and the time you invest in doing so.

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