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Vary your rate of speech to add clarity

Vary your rate of speech to add clarity

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Vary your rate of speech to add clarity

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- Rate of speech is an extremely powerful foundation when it comes to vocal mastery. When I think of rate of speech, I think of it as having a scale of one to 10, one obviously being painfully slow and 10 being as quickly as you possibly can. Now, I want you to experience what happens when I do something like this. Imagine I jumped on a video and I stuck to a really slow default rate of speech. Here we go. Hi, everyone. It's great to be here. Welcome to my online class about communication skills. You've most likely left this video open a new tab to watch another LinkedIn learning course. Now let's see what happens if I do the complete polar opposite, and I stick to a faster default rate of speech. Here we go. Hi, everyone. I'm super excited to be here to teach you all about communication skills to help you amplify the best parts of who you are. Can you notice how, if I stuck to that as a default rate of speech is not effective either? Can you see how it's not influential and it's not…

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