How to Improve Your Voice

Learn to control your breathing is the first thing to work with. Make a conscious effort to avoid widening the upper part of your chest when you inhale to speak or sing. Make your lower lungs expanded. Pull in your stomach to support the diaphragm. So controlling the flow of air by gradually let your lungs breathe out with good diaphragmatic support is maintained by abdominal muscles. At the same time trying to keep your neck muscles relaxed. This can be practiced by counting as far as possible without strain on a single breath of air. Reading is also good practice.

Resonance can be improved by having the feel of it in your head. This can be done by exaggerating the vibrant tones and extend them. Humming and sounding letters "m" and "n" will help improve your resonance. Blend these letters with vowels in words like men, mind, and final, sun, and so on. Hold "n" and "m" sound twice as long as normal while practicing.

For the words you speak to come out full and clear you need good articulation. This requires free movement of lips, tongue and jaws, the shape sounds. If you have the habit of talking through a tight mouth and jaws you practical exercises that will make them more flexible. In practice, you can also improve articulation, so that your words come out clearly. The sounds may not ride together and become blurred. You may need to work at it patiently for many months. A good exercise is to read aloud. While thus pronounce each word correctly and make each sound carefully. But be careful not to overdo it and develop an affected way of speaking.

Suppose you have problem with customary to speak with your voice too high. What can you do to overcome it? A high pitch is due to tenseness of the muscles controlling the vocal cords folds or cords. The tight folds and so raise the pitch of the voice. By relaxing the jaw and neck muscles and by using diaphragmatic breathing you can develop a more pleasant tone and bring the pitch of your voice down into a middle range which is a more natural level, which sounds less strained. Then you will have a wider range of flexion.

A soft, rich voice with clear tones are pleasing to hear but the voice must not be too soft. Where can people find it hard to hear what you say. With proper breath control a person with a soft voice can control its volume, which keeps it sufficient in all possible situations.

On the other hand, some people cast are always bombastic. Such voices are out of place in tranquil surroundings and can be annoying for other people. This is especially true when listening to such a person on a phone. Sometimes it is necessary to keep the receiver several inches from your ear, because the voice on the other end is inconsiderately loud. Learning to vary the strength of your voice to the special relationship is one of the factors that make a good voice.

If a person with a constant loud voice to listen to himself on a tape recorder and hear how he sounds to others it will help him realize the need to reduce its volume. All that is necessary to improve a voice, as regards volume is concerned, a little conscious effort to speak more softly.