4Ps, Power, Pitch, Pace, Pause on the AppStore

4Ps, Power, Pitch, Pace, Pause on GooglePlay

An accompanying video course

App Who is this for? The main benefit of the app for students
This app is ideal if you want to get rid of monotonous speech and become a successful presenter and public speaker. The use of 4 Ps is particularly important for prepared speech for more formal settings, where you are addressing an audience. For example: giving a presentation, reading aloud reports and minutes for board meetings, debating, telling a story, broadcasting etc.

The app will help you:
• To use pauses correctly and for dramatic effect
• To make your speech interesting and powerful
• To become a competent public speaker and presenter
• To modulate your voice
• To enrich your English vocabulary
• To learn and practice onomatopoeia

App Contents
The app has 10% theory and 90% effective practical exercises for voice modulation, the use of pauses and muscular exercises from the book Get Rid of your Accent Part Two, Advanced Level, ISBN 9780955330018. Voice modulation is achieved by changing the pitch and power of your voice and pace of your speech. The lessons contain phrases, amusing sentences, dialogues, prose passages, tongue twisters and poetry from the classic English literature.

App Functionality
All exercises are recorded on audio tracks that illustrate the model pronunciation. Students can play audio tracks, record themselves, and compare their pronunciation with the model. The app is very easy to use. Simply touch the screen to play audio tracks, record yourself, and compare your pronunciation with the model.

Power, Pitch, Pace,Pause

1. Power stands for the loudness of your voice, and all voice is breath, you need to enlarge your lung capacity with breathing exercises;
2. Then you can variate your pitch from high to low. For example, you use high pitch when you talk about something exciting and positive, and low pitched voice when you talk about something serious or sad.
3. You can also play with your pace, at times it could slower, and at times faster. Depending on the mood and message you wish to convey.
4. Pause is one of the most effective tools of voice modulation. There is a pause for effect, pause between paragraphs, etc. With pauses, you can bring an emphasis to a certain word or idea, separate ideas, etc.

About the authors

Linda James (RAM, Dip. Ed., IPD, LRAM) Linda trained at the Royal Academy of Music and qualified as a teacher of Speech and Drama. She also holds an International Phonetics Diploma from London University. Linda has had extensive experience as a dialect coach in TV, films and the theatre. For more than 20 years she has worked as a Speech Tutor at several London drama colleges and privately, specialising in the teaching of Received Pronunciation (RP) and the eradication of accents.

Olga Smith (BA in Linguistics, MBA)
Olga holds a degree in Linguistics and an MBA from Nottingham University. She is also an advanced public speaker and a holder of the Toastmaster bronze reward. Olga learned a unique drama school method for Accent Reduction from top British phonetician Linda James. They together co-authored the UK bestselling books, “Get Rid of your Accent”, Part One, Part Two and Part Three.