I would answer this in this way. When I had speech training at the logopadie I was taught to take a deep breath and speak in sylables.That is to say I broke each word down into its sylables and concentrated on each one. It takes a little while to get used to but one can then speak fairly fluently. About the power of the voice I try to speak as if I am shouting to an Audiance it does increase speech loudness but not very satisfactorily-- ---Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> An: <[log in to unmask]> Gesendet: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 1:20 PM Betreff: Fwd: Re: Hi; & interest in kinds of research > hi all > > At 19:35 1999/09/19 -0700, susan trout wrote to me: > >Hi Janet, To your question what types of research I am interested in, Snip...