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For Public Speaking - 3 Ways to Strengthen Your
Voice Right Now
Voice Training Technique #1:
This is a tried and true technique that is deceptively
simple. This one technique alone has allowed many,
many speakers to strengthen their voice tremendously.
First get some room temperature water or hot
tea (slippery elm tea is best). Sit down with
a book, magazine, or newspaper. Sit with your
body relaxed but your spine erect.
Take a deep breath, and start reading out loud.
When you run out of breath, take another deep
breath and keep reading out loud. Periodically
take a drink of your water or tea to keep your
voice properly lubricated.
Read out loud for 5 minutes each day for a week.
Important: as you read out loud, make sure your
throat is relaxed! Never tense up your throat.
Each week increase your time by 5 minutes until
you get to where you can comfortably read out
loud for 20 to 30 minutes.
Once you can comfortably read out loud for at
least 20 minutes, begin to project your voice
by imagining that your voice can project beyond
the room that you're in - don't strain, just speak
more loudly and project your voice while keeping
your throat relaxed.
Voice Training Technique #2:
Take singing lessons! This really works because
you'll learn the right way to use your voice and
how to protect your voice.
A good singing teacher will show you how to strengthen
and project your voice properly and powerfully.
And, you'll learn very valuable techniques to
warm-up and strengthen your voice.
I'm 100% convinced that the singing lessons I
took many years ago have given me the ability
to speak quite powerfully - I've spoken to rooms
of over 100 people without a microphone and everyone
could hear me just fine. I can speak all day long
for days at a time, and my voice is just as strong
and clear at the end of the week as it was at
the beginning.
If you "lose your voice" or find that your voice
is hoarse or strained after speaking, you need
to take singing lessons right away.
Voice Training Technique #3:
Use this technique as a vocal warm-up before you
speak, or as an exercise to increase the power
of your voice.
Start by taking a nice deep breath and then make
an "mmmmm" humming sound. Pay particular attention
to the front of your face - singers call this
"the mask" - you want to feel your face vibrating.
As you feel your "mmmm" sound in the front of
your face, now open your mouth and make "oooo"
sound again paying attention the "the mask".
Keep your throat relaxed. Continue on to make
"ahh" and then "eee" sounds.
Take a deep breath and start again, and with
one single breath move through mmmmm-ooooo-ahhhhh-eeeee
- remember to keep your throat relaxed!
Do this for 3-5 minutes to warm-up before speaking
or as an exercise anytime you want to build power
in your voice.
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