Barrier # 3: Misinterpretation of the voice.
The quality, intelligibility, and variety of the voice affect thelistener’s understanding.
1. Quality refers to the overall impression the voice makes onothers. Listeners often infer from the voice whether thespeaker is happy or sad, fearful or confident, excited or bored.
2. Intelligibility (or understandability) depends on such thingsas articulation, pronunciation, and grammatical correctness.
3. Variety is the spice of speaking. Variations in rate, volume,force, pitch, and emphasis are some of the factors thatinfluence our understanding of the speaker’s message.