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Here's the transcript (I left out the credits at the beginning):
"The Lowdown. Audio downloads for people who are short on time but long on ambition. The Lowdown. Improve your speech. British English. Hello and welcome to Improve Your Speech, specially designed for speakers of British English. Everyone wants to look good, but it’s important to sound good too. You are your voice. It’s your identity. It reveals who you are and how you feel. It reveals the truth about you. The sound that you make indicates everything about you: your background, your level of education, your ability to understand. People make assumptions about you the minute you open your mouth, the same assumptions they make when they look at what you are wearing. But it’s no good putting on a power suit and then mumbling at your interview. Voice matters. Improve Your Speech will give you the tools you need to sound better. These tools will be useful whether English is your first or your second language. But let’s be clear: this is not a language course. The aim isn’t to improve your vocabulary or to eradicate accent. Your accent will be modified only insofar as it assists clarity and tone. You will still be you, but a you whose voice has impact, whose voice is easy on the ear. The tools and tips you will learn will help you to develop vocal resonance and range and to convey what you want to convey. A clear speaker signals a clear thinker. Clear speech is essential in almost every field of professional activity. To be clearly understood when making a deal. To be able to control your tone of voice in a meeting and to give nothing away that you do not want to give away. To use a reasonable tempo on the telephone with people who may not understand you easily. To appear confident one-to-one or when addressing a convention. To have the confidence that you can hold peoples’ attention. All this is important to people in many walks of life. Clear speech will help you maximize your potential and make you an asset to your chosen business or profession. Here’s a story that illustrates the point. As an experiment, a university hired an actor to deliver a lecture on philosophy. He gave the same lecture to two separate groups of students. He delivered the first lecture in a sloppy urban drawl. He delivered the second using proper voice production and better diction. The students of each class were then asked to fill in a questionnaire. It emerged that those students who had listened to the second lecture considered the lecturer to be not only more intelligent and more educated but also better looking and taller. Same lecture, same lecturer, different voice. That’s the kind of impact good speech can have."
Have a nice weekend.
Anna
August 20, 2011 at 1:23 PM