Having trouble projecting a professional speaking image? It may be time to clean up your vowels. Dr. June Johnson, author of Building the Power of Your Voice: How to Improve Your Voice to Command Attention & Move People to Action shares this:

Vowels are as important to speech as consonants. Mispronounced vowels and sloppy consonants are responsible for many misunderstandings. One of the challenges in the English language is the many different pronunciations of single vowels and vowel combinations.

When I was Professor of Voice at the Eastern Illinois University, one of my responsibilities was to teach vocal diction to voice majors. English was their native language, but they still had to learn to pronounce words correctly so they could be understood as they sang. Many had regional accents that turned sentences like "When can I get it?" into something that sounded like "Win kin ah git it?" They had to work to develop a consistent pronunciation of vowel sounds.

In the English language, there are only five written vowels, a, e, i, o, u, but there are ten vowel sounds.
ooh to
oh no
oo took
aw saw
ah fond
a apple
uh up
eh said
ih sit
ee me

Building the Power of Your Voice: How to Improve Your Voice to Command Attention & Move People to Action provides many additional solutions and techniques that will help you achieve on-the-job success through improved professional speaking.
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