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Voice and Speech: The Sound of Obama
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Whether you agree with his policies or not, you have to admit that our current President won the office in large part because of his ability to speak well.
A lot goes into speaking well. It’s a big topic. But one of the key ingredients is an appealing speaking voice.
Now, I’m NOT saying that President Obama has a PERFECT speaking voice. I’m sure most of us have a quibble here and there.
But compared to John McCain and Sarah Palin, Obama was a Caruso to their PeeWee Herman.
His sound is open and resonant, whereas both McCain and Palin have high-pitched nasal sounds.
Candidate Obama’s enunciation, for the most part, was crisp and professional. I say for the most part because he occasionally lapses into slangy sounds that, I suppose, are meant to make him sound folksy.
McCain and Palin, both impressive people, projected vocal images that were less Presidential. McCain sounded young, his squeaky tenor voice seeming less authoritative than Obama’s.
And Palin’s voice was a serious liability. Her resonance was squarely in the bones of her face and in her nose, and those sounds, coming from a strong-willed woman, are not likely to win the hearts and minds of men.
Vocal Presence is an interesting concept. It suggests that sound itself, independent from substance, can have a decisive effect on a voter’s decision to say, “Yes,” to a candidacy.
I would be interested to learn if in our history the candidate with the deeper, more masculine speaking voice was more likely to be elected.
I know it’s true about the taller candidate. If it were also true about the voice, than we would have known early in the primaries that Barack Obama was the favored candidate.
His voice speaks so loudly that it almost doesn’t matter what he says.
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