rate

Examples of rate in the following topics:

• Rate

  • Rate is the speed of speaking in words per minute from slow to fast, with normal rate averaging about 125 words per minute.
  • Rate is how fast or slow a person speaks.
  • Rate is part of the paralanguage of speech along with loudness and pitch.
  • For example, if you are experiencing joy, you will speak at a fast rate compared to a speaker who is expressing surprise who will speak at a much faster rate.
  • Use a recorder to record your speech so you can clock your actual speaking rate.

• Audience Opinion of You and Your Topic

  • For example, in 2012 regular reports were created based on changes in favorable and unfavorable ratings for Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.
  • When preparing your speech, consider how your audience might rate you.
  • What is your favorability rating with your audience?
  • Does Congress have a high favorability rating?
  • What is the favorability rating for the Health Care Act?

• Dialect and Vocal Variety

  • Speakers may use many different English dialects to change the pitch, rate, volume, and use of pauses to achieve vocal variety.
  • You might say one phrase at a faster rate in comparison to another phrase that you speak at a slower rate.
  • Change the rate meaningfully; do not speak faster to finish the speech or to avoid talking about a main point.
  • Change in rate is natural in conversation.
  • Notice how you change the rate in your conversation and apply the natural changes while speaking in public.

• Solicit Information

  • Use direct observation of small audiences and use interviews, surveys and Likert rating scales to collect data about larger audiences.
  • There are several useful methods to consider, including: (1) direct observation of members of the potential audience, and (2) data collection through interviews surveys and rating scales for opinions.
  • You can use a Likert-type rating scale of attitudes.
  • When using a questionnaire or using rating scales it is wise to try them out on a small sample of your audience before you administer them to a large group.
  • Analyze your audience using direct observation, interviews, surveys, or Likert rating scales

• Interview Followup

  • You will need to summarize the content or tabulate the ratings if you used rating scales for the interview questions.

• The Remembering Stage

  • Using information immediately after receiving it enhances information retention and lessens the forgetting curve, or the rate at which we no longer retain information in our memory.

• The Importance of Language

  • Speech contains nonverbal elements known as paralanguage, including voice quality, rate, pitch, volume, and speaking style, as well as prosodic features such as rhythm, intonation, and stress.

• Successful Rehearsing Habits: Mimic Timing and Context

  • You can consider at least two basics of timing---the amount of time that it takes to deliver the speech and how to time use of visual aids such as Power Point slides for presentations-- and timing as a feature of the rate of delivery.
  • You can vary the rate of speaking and the use of pausing to achieve different vocal effects as you practice.

• Introducing the Topic, Thesis, and Main Points

  • The opening of this speech names a topic (vitamin D deficiency), explains its importance, explains its relevance to the audience, and then states the purpose of the presentation—to investigate the improbably wide range of deficiency-rate estimates from different studies—and outlines the main points.

• Eye Contact and Facial Expression

  • The length of a gaze, the frequency of glances, patterns of fixation, pupil dilation, and blink rate are all important cues in nonverbal communication.