When addressing an audience, there is nothing more embarrassing than opening your mouth to speak and the voice that results is high in pitch and shaking to boot! The shaking is known as a quiver and it can happen even when you’re not nervous. If […]
Comedian and actor Ben Stein has a wonderful shtick in which he speaks in a monotonous, sing-song style. His droll manner makes him a lot of money for the commercials he does as well as the parts he has played in movies. Watching him is […]
One of the most frequent questions I hear is how do I tell my spouse, my friend, or a colleague that they need to improve their speaking voice? This really is a tough issue because if you approach someone advising them that their speaking voice […]
There is nothing more frustrating than having people ask you to repeat yourself because they did not hear what you were saying. There are several reasons why this may be happening: you may be soft-spoken; you may have an accent in which you are not […]
While many novice speakers tend to express too little emotion, there are a few who actually emote – express too much emotion for the given situation. Emoting is acting; delivering a speech is not. Your objective in your speech is to ‘straddle the fence’ in […]
If you are suffering a sore throat, laryngitis, or strep throat, a common fallacy is that you should whisper. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whispering requires your vocal folds to become your only source of voiced sound. And that is a problem because […]
Through my many years teaching voice and presentation skills, it has been fascinating to discover all the tremendous benefits that can occur just by finding your ‘real’ voice; but certainly, one of the most rewarding is that your singing voice will improve. In some cases, […]