This document provides 10 tips to achieve a deep, resonant, authoritative voice. The tips include maintaining physical fitness, improving self-confidence, relaxing throat muscles through yawning and humming exercises, using diaphragmatic breathing, strengthening throat muscles, learning to use chest cavities for resonance, and seeing a speech therapist if needed. The overall document provides proven methods and exercises from voice experts to help improve vocal skills and achieve a richer, deeper voice.
This document provides 10 tips to achieve a deep, resonant, authoritative voice. The tips include maintaining physical fitness, improving self-confidence, relaxing throat muscles through yawning and humming exercises, using diaphragmatic breathing, strengthening throat muscles, learning to use chest cavities for resonance, and seeing a speech therapist if needed. The overall document provides proven methods and exercises from voice experts to help improve vocal skills and achieve a richer, deeper voice.
This document provides 10 tips to achieve a deep, resonant, authoritative voice. The tips include maintaining physical fitness, improving self-confidence, relaxing throat muscles through yawning and humming exercises, using diaphragmatic breathing, strengthening throat muscles, learning to use chest cavities for resonance, and seeing a speech therapist if needed. The overall document provides proven methods and exercises from voice experts to help improve vocal skills and achieve a richer, deeper voice.
This document provides 10 tips to achieve a deep, resonant, authoritative voice. The tips include maintaining physical fitness, improving self-confidence, relaxing throat muscles through yawning and humming exercises, using diaphragmatic breathing, strengthening throat muscles, learning to use chest cavities for resonance, and seeing a speech therapist if needed. The overall document provides proven methods and exercises from voice experts to help improve vocal skills and achieve a richer, deeper voice.
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Peter Baker has been a presenter and Mark Laxton is a sales and marketing voice artist for all his working life and specialist as well as an author and has been an in-vison newsreader for publisher. He has helped very many the BBC and ITV Granada presenter individuals and organisations reach as well as radio DJ on top of his success with his honest and effective continuing success as a voiceover. marketing systems. “THE HUMAN VOICE IS THE MOST PERFECT INSTRUMENT OF ALL” - Composer, Arvo Pärt 1 Achieve and maintain physical fitness – get loads of sleep, eat good natural foods, be fully hydrated drinking pure water. Be active and do regular exercise.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com 2 Feel good about yourself! A higher, or even nervous voice could be a sign of a lack of self- confidence, or a reaction to some bad things in your past. You have a right to be here. Know that most people genuinely want to hear what you have to say and will give you time to talk.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com 3 Yawn, even if you’re not tired. Yawn, and yawn again, and stretch for good measure. Do this to relax the neck muscles and the vocal cords. Relaxation is the key to a good, deep, mature voice quality.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com 4 Believe in what you are talking about. Totally feel passionate about every word you say. Strangely when you believe deeply about something, your voice sounds deeper too. Convince yourself: you speak the truth. You ARE the truth. The truth is YOU.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com The depth of anyone’s voice is down to the thickness of the vocal
5 cords and the size and shape of their body, but you can enhance the richness and depth of your voice by simple exercises. Hum or chant low, very low, while relaxing and standing, not sitting. Don’t crush the diaphragm, don’t strain your voice; simply take in deep breaths and hum comfortably, 10 minutes a day minimum.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com If you find doing anything low a
6 problem, you may have tension issues. So, pretend you’re in an extremely tense situation, say on stage or a live TV show. Really imagine it! Now, identify the muscles that are tense, in your neck area, your throat and shoulders. Actively pinpoint these areas and relax them. Once you have relaxed them fully, and you can test this by humming low….create a “mental pre-set” for this condition. Teach yourself to easily and quickly “snap” into this relaxed pre-set on will.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com As well as being generally physically fit, you need a good
7 volume of air to speak, and it needs to be strong and long lasting too. Exercise your diaphragm by blowing out sharply for about 30 times. Then relax and do this again later in the day. It’s a good exercise to strengthen your abdominal muscles and your diaphragm which will assist greatly your ability to achieve a rich low voice.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com 8 Close your mouth and suck on an invisible straw. Hold for about 5 seconds then release. This strengthens all important muscle groups in your throat. Don’t do this too much or you may get dizzy.
www.voiceovermasterclass.com 9 Learn to use all your chest cavities to gain resonance. Don’t speak from the throat. Relax your throat muscles and learn to identify how by doing this you use the deep chest cavities to resonate your voice. You can check this by low humming and putting your hand on your upper chest. Can you feel the vibrations?
www.voiceovermasterclass.com 10 Finally, if you have any serious issues that none of these tips can tackle, find a good speech therapist or voice coach who may find physical or psychological elements that may be affecting your voice. Good luck!
