Lack of speech clarity is the main criteria that every speakers face in their speech. Write your speech in a paper and practice it until you can deliver the speech with more confidence. If you can not speak with clarity, the audience can not understand what you are talking. So you will not get the proper response form your audience as you expected. Let us see some of the reasons an audience can not understand your speech.
You will speak too slowly or too fast
You use the language that your audience can not understand
You may have English communication barrier
Your pronunciation may be vulgar
You may have bad accent
Your ideas may be confusing or very difficult to follow.
Apart from this there are some other reasons, but these are most important among them. Most of the people are unaware about these problems. Through recording your voice you can improve your voice calrity.Vedio recording can help you to get a visual appearance of your performance. But audio recording is the best way to improve voice clarity. When you speak, you can ask your friend about your voice clarity and they can help you to give you a good feed back. Analyze your own voice and start work on it, if you lack clarity. Here are some tips to improve your voice clarity.
Focus on your voice:
Check out whether you are speaking too slow or too fast? Whether your voice is audible to your audience? Most of the people used to speak very fast during presentation. Perhaps this may happen out of nervousness. If you feel yourself speaking very fast slowdown it. Practice with the help of a recorder and you can see whether you are improving or not. Assure that you sound natural while you improve your clarity.
Try to use microphone during speech, it can help you to a certain extent. You can ask the audience sitting in the back side whether they can hear your voice. As per their opinion you can adjust your volume. It does not mean that after every few minutes you should ask them. Try to maintain the same pace through out your speech.
Focus on your language:
Analyze yourself asking questions like are you using the terms or words that are unfamiliar with the audience? Are you mispronouncing words? Some people use the language that other people can not understand. Some people do this in order to show their word power. Try to use the language that is easily understandable. Try not to use technical term in your speech. If your audience is from technical part you can otherwise you have to explain the terms in detail. Avoid mispronunciation and misuse of words which affect your speech badly. You can seek the help of audio programs to avoid your mistakes.
Develop your English:
People who lack good communication always fail to give good presentation. This communication barrier is big obstacle for every one. More resources are there for improving your language. As soon as possible learn the language well and get feed back from others. Remember for a better presentation good communication skill is very much essential.