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Book SynopsisIs Your Voice Telling on You? How to Find and Use Your Natural Voice, Third Edition is designed to help the reader find and use his or her natural voice and appreciate the effect of emotions on voice. It is also a useful tool for both vocal coaches and speech-language pathologist who work with patients with voice disorders. The reader will find that some emotions heard in our voices, such as anger or fear, can be reduced or eliminated by making some simple vocal changes.This user-friendly third edition includes self-tests and vocal exercises and addresses various topics: practical methods for increasing breath control with specific guidelines for increasing loudness and voice projection, voice management tips for women who have high demands on their voice, steps for increasing the friendliness of one's voice, exercises that increase voice efficiently with sharper voice focus, and biological and environmental tips to help professional voice users maintain optimal voicing under difficult demanding conditions.New features include:*Voice changes to hide negative emotions*Tips to increase the friendliness of one's voice*Techniques for a more masculine or feminine voice*Recommendations for recovering from the tired voice*Management practices for people who have high voice demands (such as teachers and sales people)*Ten steps for finding and keeping the voice you want and need
Table of ContentsContents. Preface. Chapter 1. Is Your Voice Telling on You? Chapter 2. Basic Mechanisms Needed for a Normal Voice. Chapter 3. Enemies of a Natural Voice. Chapter 4. You and Your Natural Voice. Chapter 5. To Breathe or Not to Breathe. Chapter 6. Loud Enough or Too Loud? Chapter 7. The Well-Aimed Pitch. Chapter 8. Is Your Voice in Focus? Chapter 9. Talking Through Your Nose. Chapter 10. Your Emotions and Your Voice. Chapter 11. Stage Fright and Related Fears. Chapter 12. Your Voice on Phones and Other Electronic Gadgetry. Chapter 13. The Female Voice. Chapter 14. The Male Voice. Chapter 15. Ten Steps for Keeping Your Natural Voice. Chapter 16. Professional Help for Voice Problems. Suggested References. Index.
