Voice is a natural gift given to us from birth. With its help, we communicate with others, convey the necessary information to others and declare our needs. For successful communication, it is important that this "tool" serves us faithfully. The role of verbal communication cannot be underestimated: the impression made on the interlocutor and our image as a whole depend on the correctness, beauty, and persuasiveness of speech.
Thus, a properly delivered voice is necessary not only for singers, actors and television announcers. A politician delivering a speech to voters, a businessman conducting business negotiations, a teacher or lecturer who speaks to a large audience for a long time - all of them need a strong, convincing, well-posed voice. We need a beautiful, pleasant for hearing voice to impress when applying for a job or just to please someone.
How many of us are happy with our voice? Alas, such units. By nature, very few have outstanding voice data, but most have to deal with the various shortcomings of their own speech: lisp, burr, weak and thin voice, slurred speech, sharp unpleasant timbre, etc.
How to develop a voice? It is, above all, about diction. This concept means the ability to clearly and accurately pronounce sounds with the correct articulation. Our speech apparatus is the mechanism by which we make sounds. Its violations (congenital or due to past illnesses and injuries) lead to poor quality of diction.
One of the main reasons for poor diction is the insufficient mobility of the lower jaw and the inability to open the mouth to the desired width, while the words sound “crumpled” and deaf. Serious measures are required to combat this shortcoming. Basically the solution to the question "How to develop a voice?" boils down to a set of exercises to improve the function of the speech apparatus. You can do this at special courses or at home yourself. The systematicity, persistence, and thorough performance of all exercises are very important in such exercises.
The strength of the voice depends, first of all, on the correctness of speech breathing. For his training, take a comfortable posture (standing, sitting or lying), put one hand on the stomach, the other on the side of the chest and take deep breaths through the nose with subsequent smooth exhalations (hands control the raising and lowering of the chest and abdomen). Another exercise is to inhale briefly with your nose, then hold the air in your lungs for a couple of seconds and gently exhale with your mouth.
Or: take a short breath, exhale vowels (a, o, y, and) and their various combinations on a smooth exhale. You can count on one exhale (initially up to 3-5, gradually increasing to 10 or more), and also count down. All sorts of tongue twisters can be pronounced "in one go", which in themselves are an excellent means of improving speech.
How to develop a voice using psychological techniques and attitudes? It is no secret that our mental state and inner mood influence the timbre of the voice . Indian yogis with the help of special practices master the art of voice control, can make its timbre deep and rich. Here are some simple exercises:
- Standing in front of the mirror, exhale, inhale, then pull the vowels "and", "e", "a", "o", "y" for as long as possible (in this order). Their alternate utilization activates the circulatory system of the neck and throat, chest, heart, and abdomen.
- Make the voice "rude", i.e. Multiple pronouncing of the sound “u” during the day will help lower, deeper. Strength and energy are given to the voice by a "growl" - pronouncing the sound "p" and any words with this sound.
- Exercise "Tarzan" not only develops a voice, but also prevents colds and heart attacks. Standing straight, exhale, take a deep breath, then beat yourself in the chest with your fists, while simultaneously shouting all the vowels as loud as possible. It energizes and clears the mucus from the bronchi.
How to develop a voice with the help of exercises to develop articulation (i.e., directly improving diction)? To improve the mobility of the lower jaw, you should try to lower it, achieving a gap between the teeth with a width of two fingers. It is necessary to pull vowel sounds and their combinations with open mouth; pronounce proverbs and sayings with a large number of vowels, read poetry.
To develop the mobility of the lips, you should stretch them in a smile without exposing your teeth, then exposing your teeth, stretching with a tube, and rounding. In all these positions, you should try to pronounce vowels, as well as consonants with tightly closed lips. When reading poetry, proverbs, sayings, you should follow the correct articulation in the mirror.
To improve the mobility of the tongue, stick it out and move it up and down, to the sides, in a circle, “clean” the tongue inside and out with the tongue, make it narrow, wide and “cup”.
Classes should be held every day for 10-15 minutes, and it is important to achieve the correct implementation of each exercise.