Hi Reader

Today, I want to share an often overlooked or not heard of concept when it comes to communication.

Every speech can be classified into three departments. Verbal (content or words), visual (body language or non verbal cues), and vocal (use of voice/sound).

The term I am going to introduce is in the third department, department of voice.

Voice is like the fuel of our speech. You may have the best car in the form of content but you can't drive the car without fuel.

There are terms like pitch, tone, exaggeration, etc but I wonder why this term is not used much to judge a speech.

I feel this term is what every speech or talk should be judged upon.

So what's the term I'm talking about?

It's intelligibility.

I may have talked about this but I was recording a video related to voice. As I was recording the new course, it dawned on me that this concept is so important. It summarises effective communication.

Intelligibility is the ability of the speaker to make sure that the audience "gets it" . I'm going to try to explain this further.

It's the ability of the speaker to convey 100% of what the speaker intended to say to 100% of the audience members.

Let's say there are 30 people in the audience and the speaker had 20 words in his or her mind. Then, those 20 words should get implanted in the minds of the 30 people. If the speaker is able to so, then it's a highly intelligible speech.

This does not mean that the audience will agree what the speaker says. It's just making sure that the audience understands what the speaker said.

Hope it's making sense. Have a great week ahead!

-Rama

P.S: I guess I said it earlier as well. I’m creating a fresh video course to answer the 37 questions, that form the framework for bullet proofing your public speaking. I’m done with answering 23 questions. I’m planning to wrap it up within next few weeks. If you’d like be the among the first ones to access the course, then, please reply to this email.