My purpose is to tell you about the use of the voice for effective communication.

The voice is an extraordinary instrument to communicate with everyone.

When we are born, we have at our disposal 88 keys but no one teaches us how to use our "piano". We must therefore study to better use our voice. The voice is not only the sound; you have to work the whole body.

We are ultimately animals and we must learn to make differences in order to communicate feelings. Words and sounds are different things but sounds also express concepts.  

From my point of view, the sounds come before the words: "as I must say, I can say".

When we have to give a lecture or in any interview, we always think first "what should I say, but never how should I say". The voice is most often for us a current of air which comes from the lungs and passes through the vocal cords" to become the voice.

The voice has four characteristics:

• its duration (slow or fast),
• its intensity (this is the volume),
• its pitch (octaves),
• its timbre (difference between the voices of each)

I can work on these 4 characteristics.

Generally knowing the what (what I'm going to say), I have to focus on the like (how I'm going to say it).

For example, I can say "I love you" because I know what love is, but the way I say it makes the difference.

If I work on like, I can achieve effective communication .

Other parameters are also important:

• The tonic accent to highlight a word, the word communication for example in the presentation that I am making
• The pause: we must speak slowly to be better understood
• The change of color: if we speak for ten minutes in a monotonous tone, that is to say with the voice of the same color, the audience quickly falls asleep
• The cadence: we do not speak with the same cadence all the time

Everyone can do more to make better use of their voice while working every day. This can be done in the theater but also with a teacher. The exercises must be daily; they last a week, two weeks, a month......because it is difficult to get results. I advise taking a book, reading slowly, taking breaks, using tonic accents and working and reworking each morning in this direction. This is the guarantee of substantial progress.