Anyone know tips at how to not be monotone?

you could try adding a little character into your talking, being 1/4 Italian I find that talking with my hands helps.

Get angry and I can assure you, your voice will fluctuate.

Need serious help

I need to present for my speech class. 10% of my grade. I made a stellar ppt IMO but my freaking voice has no emotion

I've been trying out some vocal lessons vids from YouTube...not sure of helping

Start learning from dictators' speeches, like this guy did:

Really? Come on guys youre killing me lol

I was serious, learning from dictators helped me a bit during a speech tidbit in last year's English class.

You have a montonous voice?

Not really, I'm loud and obnoxious at times. But acting like a dictator helped get me a good grade in that speech assignment. How else did they get to be in power anyway?

Just for reference, listen to how this guy talks:


He starts out slow, but then gets louder at the important points he wanted to get across. You'll see this in any real life dictator speech

My problem is far worst than trying to have a stronger voice. I just need a voice with emotion.

OMG dude I had to look something up to help me with my trig homework and I came across this vid:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=solve+the+equation+by+completing+the+square&mid=4201156352A194A82CF24201156352A194A82CF2&view=detail&FORM=VIRE3

Is your voice like that?

I dont know bro =/ I dont know how other people hear my voice. I actually just asked my friend (I sent him the vid) and he said no.

But here is a sample of my voice a couple of years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bki2XQCxVaw

(Im reading Quran, dw you wont understand anything...)

NOTE: My voice sounded squeezed for some reason in this video...I mightve have had a cold at the time or something.

nasally recitation voice

Good job tho ... props ...

and reciting Qur'an is not going to give us any idea of what you sound like when speaking publically

Yeah, that was a bad example. I just recorded my voice on Audacity and it doesnt sound like that

Okay man... I was asking 'cause that math guy was almost putting me asleep... so I would feel sorry for you if you had a voice like that lol...

Sher Shah wrote:nasally recitation voice

Good job tho ... props ...

and reciting Qur'an is not going to give us any idea of what you sound like when speaking publically

SO much this

Record it on vocaroo.com

Alright w/e. here's a link to my voice: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0FS712siSt0

Didn't know your name was pronounced like that lol.

I don't think there's anything wrong with your voice.

sounds human

and he's pronouncing his name wrong

I've always pronounced Sayf just like 'safe'... is that right?

I was actually surprised it sounded like "Ahmet". I certainly didn't say it that way. Maybe could I put a little stress on the D? But yeah it's not Ahmet. Lol

Sayf is pronounced like "Say-ffff"

Then why do some people say I sound monotone????? >_>

Maybe because you're bored whenever you talk to them. Or because you're boring lol.

I think it might be that I feel bored all the time. Like...nothing really excites me. If I haven't seen a friend in a long time and I see him, the max my excitement ever went was like half way, and that's hard to do lol.

I don't think I'm boring though. None of my friends never complained about something like that, and I'm usually hanging out with friends in college/vacations. I would iamgine if I was broing, they wouldn't want to hang out.

How do I get excited?

LOL, sounds so weird xD

I honestly don't know how to answer that

Hotshot wrote:LOL, sounds so weird xD