If you mumble, swallow your words in your throat or just talk softly, you damage your image. Although men are not immune to the problem and should be sure to project their voices as they speak, women are more likely than men to speak softly. Perhaps they have been taught a soft voice is appropriately feminine or maybe they were taught as youngsters that children are to be seen and not heard. Whatever the cause, lack of projection will consistently work against anyone male or female in the business world. A feeble voice will make the speaker seem weak.
Projection comes in part from supporting the voice with breathing from the diaphragm.
However, you know your voice doesn t project well. If you continue speaking in the volume that is comfortable for you, you will continue to under-project, so at first you will need to speak more loudly than seems normal to you. Work on increasing your voice s projection and volume during everyday encounters and eventually your increased projection will feel normal to you and you will carry it into interviews without even having to think about it. Pitch patterns speak for you The opposite of a person who speaks with a variety of vocal inflections is someone who speaks in a monotone. Certainly you have heard people who speak with little variety of pitch in their voice.