I know that those of you who make a lot of presentations or speak often in public are wary of the singsongy cadences of the “professional speakers’ voice,” or a stagey kind of broadcasters’ voice in which inconsequential words get emphasized and every sentence is molded into the same roller-coaster format, whether it fits or not. Don’t worry—I don’t want you to wind up with a voice that’s varied just for the sake of novelty. I’ve noticed that when speakers begin to sound that way, it’s usually because they seem to be completely disconnected from their meaning. But you can begin to address that
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