the read speech

A speaker, especially a beginner, may opt to read his speech before the audience. This is all right provided he knows how to read it effectively. Reading a speech effectively means being able to deliver the message in an effortless and spontaneous manner. The audience does not notice that you are actually reading the entire speech because you have done it with maximum audience contact.

Reading a speech is not just plain reading a speech. The speaker has to engage his whole being in conveying the message in the most effective way. He stops at the right time and looks at the audience much of the time. He uses gestures and lots of eye contact. He sees to it that everything is understood from start to finish.

A read speech is not at all that simple because it requires that the speaker who uses this method knows how to really read well.