EP24 - Speech Pacing - Keeping Things Interesting

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Your speaking pace is an important key component of engaged, entertaining communication. Mastering your speaking pace and knowing when to slow down versus speed up is important in ultimately communicating your message clearly. I've said it before but it's not what you say, but how you say it that is important.

Practicing this skill is helpful to communicate certain ideas and knowing which ideas are best delivered slowly or fast is helpful to your listener. Your job as a speaker is in packaging the content in the correct context.

100 word stories

Speech rate guidelines:

• Slow: Less than 110 wpm
• Conversational: Between 120 wpm and 150 wpm
• Fast: More than 160 wpm
• Radio hosts and podcasters: 150-160 wpm
• Auctioneeers: 250-400 wpm

Calculating your Speech Rate = # words / duration of time

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