🔊 Boost Your Speaking Volume
Command Attention with this Fun Speech Exercise
If you have a quieter voice, you may sound less powerful when you speak in public.
Strengthening your vocal power increases your engagement and confidence.
Nothing is wrong with being quiet; a quiet voice can sound like a songbird!
If people ask you to repeat yourself when you contribute at a meeting or can't understand you clearly when you speak at a party, you will want to learn how to boost your volume.
Creating a powerful voice is not about yelling. The goal is to sound fuller rather than louder.
Let me show you how!
Focus on three KEY vocal skills and try this one vocal exercise below to sound more powerful:
🔊 Deepen Your Resonance:
Practice speaking with more vocal resonance to achieve a fuller voice. In the video tutorial above, I will show you how to create resonance.
Resonance is a sound and sensation you can feel deeply in your chest.
Pro Tip: Remember to focus on sounding and feeling FULLER when you speak. My Voice Coach, Jane Sharpe, an exceptional teacher of many other coaches in California, used to encourage us to “drink in our voice” rather than project it out of our bodies.
🗣️ Enunciate Your Words:
You’ll want to enunciate your words so that you speak clearly. Practice saying tongue twisters and creating at least a 1-2 finger space in your mouth when you articulate vowels to help your listeners easily understand your speech.
🧘🏾 Release Vocal Tension:
Gentle face and neck stretches can release tension in your jaw or throat that may hinder your fullest vocal tone. You can use my 8-minute public speaker warm-up routine, which I shared in a post earlier this year.
For a fuller voice, try the “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina Vocal Exercise”:
To create more vocal fullness, first visualize your voice reverberating in your head, throat, and chest region. Your body is a vocal instrument and can resonate with your vocal sound waves.
Step 1: Read this sentence out loud as you normally would:
"Don't cry for me, Argentina" (Thank you, Evita)
Step 2: Gently place one hand on your chest and the other on your belly button. Repeat the phrase and notice any vibration in your chest area.
Notice that your chest cavity can embody a much fuller and deeper tone than your mouth or throat alone. Release your jaw and support your voice from your diaphragm. Now repeat the phrase with hands touching your chest and belly:
"Don't cry for me, Argentina."
Step 3: Say it one more time as fully as you can, like an opera singer, and utilize your entire body to create a complete and rich tone. Stand or sit up straight, inhale a full belly breath, and speak the phrase, engaging your entire torso:
"Don't cry for me, Argentina."
How did that feel? Did you feel sensations in your torso? This is how Opera singers can sound so powerful without a microphone!
Practice this speech exercise consistently to strengthen your voice and make it sound fuller.
BRAVO!! 👏 👏 👏
Stay Calm & Speak On,
Jessica
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But why did I start singing from Evita right off the bat? 😂