Hello, class, today we're going to be learning about a lot of things about public speaking. I'll be your instructor--okay, how dreadful was that? All right, that's what I'm talking about. We need to talk about inflection, or pitch, or variables, or whatever you want to call it. Me personally, I call it being delicious. I want you to be delicious with your voice. So, you can't talk in a monotone when you deliver your speech. You've got to use the highs and lows of your voice. We've got our speed set, we've got our volume set, now sometimes, something is going to be more important. Maybe you give it a little more emphasis. Maybe at some point in your speech you get really excited, and you're going to use a higher pitch. Maybe at some point in your speech there is something very serious that you want to talk about, so you use the lower register of your voice. But what we're looking for is a variety of highs and lows, ups, downs, fast, slows, and maybe even loud-softs. That's inflection. It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you don't give every single word the same value. And what I mean by that is if I say a line, I like pizza, and then I say I line, the building's on fire, and I give them both the same value, than that means nothing. I like pizza, I love pizza. The building is on fire. Okay, those are two totally different things. And I need to inflect them accordingly so that you the listener, you the audience, know how I feel about it. Inflection--it's really cool stuff.
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