The document provides tips on developing strong tonal skills for communication. It discusses projecting one's voice properly by breathing from the diaphragm. Speaking clearly, choosing words carefully, and maintaining a good pace and tone are also important. Components of an effective voice include tone, clarity, vocabulary, emotions, volume, pitch, and modulation. Tone underscores emotion, pitch is voice frequency, volume is loudness, and clarity and modulation impact understandability.

1. Tips on Tonal Skills
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2. Tonal Skills
Sound is the basic for all language skills. Group of sounds form words and group of words form
sentence. Strong awareness about sounds and its applications will lead to mastery in
communication.
Tonality skills are the knowledge of voice and its components and how to use them effectively
in a communication process.
Traits of People who got good tonality skills
Good Voice projection
The two most important factors of voice projection are breathing technique and resonance.
One should learn how to breathe properly from the diaphragm to properly and strongly project
his voice. To breath from the diaphragm your stomach should expand when you are breathing
in & contract when you exhale.
Creating Well-Formed Sentences
Formation of sentence with simplicity, choosing of write words and nullified grammatical errors
will create clarity in a communication.

3. Having a diverse vocabulary
The ability to use more words and words which gives the exact meaning will create clarity and
value to the communication.
Speaking Clearly
Speaking clearly & slowly will get the interest of the listeners. What you need to do is speak
every word slowly.
Having a good Pace & tonality
If you speak really slow or really fast, people will have trouble following you. Awareness about
the pace in mind when we converse with others is very important.
Explain things easily
Don’t expect everyone to be an expert in the subject you are speaking about, use simple words
& go from one scenario to another slowly.
Being straightforward & honest
Everybody loves a person which is genuine & who speaks honestly. Don’t try to hide any details,
instead be honest about it even it if puts you in a bad position – people admire that.
Components of Voice
Tone
Clarity
Words
Emotions
Volume
Pitch
Modulation
Components
of
VOICE

4. Tone
The overall quality of a vocal sound created during a communication process. Tone underscores
the emotion in the speaker’s voice. The tone in a person’s voice is a mirror to his emotions.
Tonality is often evidence of either the gap or correlation between the words that one uses and
what one actually feels.
Pitch
The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness
or lowness of a tone. The frequency at which we speak, that is, high or low. Our pitch is an
indicator of the degree in sound and is not influenced or affected by changes in volume.
Volume or Loudness
Sound Loudness is a subjective term describing the strength of the ear’s perception of a sound
Clarity
Sound clarity is defined as the accuracy; enjoy ability or intelligibility of sound that has been
created during a verbal communication.
Words
It is the perfect usage and the formation of words in a sentence formation.
Modulation
It is the process of using the tone, pitch, volume and other aspects of communication and
thereby to create a proper sound which is audible, accurate and amicable.
Emotions
Any of the particular feelings that characterize such a state of mind, such as joy, anger, love,
hate, horror, etc.
Accent
A distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language which is associated with a particular nation,
locality, or social class.