Speech Analysis

This short paper will discuss my analysis of the Informative Speech I gave in class. I will cover posture, voice Ð'- volume and distinction, eye contact, and overall analysis.

Posture

At the beginning of my speech I think my posture was good. However, I do think it had is weaknesses. I stood straight and didn't move around for example. I could have used my movements and better posture to get a more knowledgeable perception to the audience. I had my back towards the audience on the left of me when I was pointing at things on the slide show. I know this is a big NO-NO but I guess I didn't realize at the time that I was doing it.

Voice

I have always felt like I possess a loud voice, but people tend to tell me that I am very soft spoken. After watching the tape, I could see why someone would say I'm soft spoken. I needed greater volume and my posture could have even played a role in my voice projection. There were pieces of the speech in which watching the tape I could hear well and there were parts that I couldn't hardly hear at all.

Eye Contact

I think at the beginning with the introduction I did ok with eye contact. I noticed that I lost eye contact especially towards the end of the speech. I'm not sure if it was because of nerves or the fact that I had the PowerPoint Presentation that was very tempting and easy to read from. You noted that I could have even "cheated" a little. The laptop was in front of me, so I could have glanced occasionally at it instead of reading of the hang down screen.

Overall Analysis

Overall, I think my posture was ok until the end of the body of the speech when I had my back to some of the audience. The conclusion, however, I think I had better posture and gestures. For the next speech, I definitely need to speak up. I think that the greater volume I intend to use will allow my audience to concentrate on my speech rather than straining to listen. Eye contact is going to be my toughest road block. I think I can overcome it though. My speech was ok, but has hard and as long as I worked on it I thought it would have went better.