The voice is an incredible force, with which you can achieve all the desired: to convince your opponents, to incline them to your side and, trite, to please the rest. If, of course, know how to use this force. Undoubtedly, the voice is an innate phenomenon, but it is quite stupid to believe that it cannot be changed. If you wish and regular work on yourself, you can achieve velvet voice and speaker pronunciation.
Examine the norms of pronunciation
We can say that all the rules of pronunciation of words we absorb from birth, constantly listening to other people's speech. And no one intentionally taught us how to pronounce those or other sounds or whole words. With the exception of those cases when, for example, the child will whispel or does not know how to yield the letter "r". But you have ever been taught consciously how to correctly pronounce the phrases and suggestions, make the right stress and pauses?
Nothing will not happen if you focus not on the word, and you will always be understood, but it can affect the persuasiveness and beauty of your speech. Therefore, it should be familiar with the textbooks of Russian phonetics, listen to the pronunciation of actors, speakers, leading and train all phonetic phenomena in their speech.
Training of the speech apparatus
The cause of poor diction can be a weakly developed muscles of the speech apparatus. Therefore, especially before important performances, you should make a "workout for the mouth." The result will be more noticeable if you do exercises regularly and in front of the mirror: so you will see and monitor all the movements of the speech apparatus.
The most famous exercises - patters. But they need to be pronounced as quickly as possible, as follows from the name. The whole point is to work out a clear pronunciation of each sound and only when this will achieve, work on speed.
Another way is phagofoeephics. Everyone heard the story of an ancient Greek philosopher, who, wanting to improve the diction, stuffed his mouth with pebbles and read the passages from different poems. In this case, pebbles do not have. Choose your favorite cookie (but which does not melt in the mouth five seconds), fill your mouth, forget my mother's rule "when I eat - I am deaf and it" and say. After the cooks, you can eat. In this case, you learn more consciously to exist sounds, and already talking without "obstacles" in the mouth, notice how pronunciation improves.
Proper breathing
Surely there have been cases when you started to speak or read a long sentence, but you lacked the air to finish everything, and you were shot down. To avoid such a situation - you should work on breathing. Basic exercise - deep slow breaths and exhalations. Later you can use exercises from yoga and other respiratory gymnastics.
And remember: Never try to pronounce long offers in one breath. Often the rapid tempo of speech is a sign of uncertainty. It is better to split the entire offer into several parts, between which there are short pauses. Remember how in school they were taught: where punctuation marks are - always need to pause.