What is it about?
Speaking clearly is an easy way to help yourself be understood. However, "clear speech" is often reported to sound angry. This paper showed that people who raised their speaking pitch (or who spoke in a higher voice) sounded angry more often than people who spoke with their normal pitch.
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Why is it important?
Speaking clearly is an important strategy for close friends and family of people who have a hearing loss. Sounding angry while communicating with people with hearing loss can put unnecessary strain on relationships. This research can help people to use the clear speech strategy without sounding angry when they are speaking to their loved ones with hearing loss.
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This is part of a body of work looking at how to decrease perceived anger while speaking clearly. We're hoping to have even more research on this area soon!
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This page is a summary of: Acoustic Properties of Anger in Clear and Conversational Speech, Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, June 2023, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2023_persp-22-00219.
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