Is Your Voice Telling on You? How to Find and Use Your Natural Voice, Third Edition

Details: 328 pages, Illustrated (B/W), Softcover, 6 x 9" 1 lbs

ISBN13: 978-1-59756-801-2

Release Date: 07/10/2015

Is Your Voice Telling on You? How to Find and Use Your Natural Voice, Third Edition is a user-friendly book designed to help the reader find and use their natural voice as well as appreciate the effect of emotions on voice. It is also a useful tool for the speech-language pathologist to use with patients with voice disorders. The reader will find that some emotions (such as anger or fear) heard in our voices can be reduced or eliminated by making some simple vocal changes.

This new third edition includes self-tests and vocal exercises that can be used by the reader who wants to improve his or her own voice, they can also be used by vocal coaches and speech-language pathologists. Topics include 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 to maintain optimal voicing under difficult demanding conditions.

New Features Include:

• Voice changes you can select for hiding negative emotions
• Steps for increasing the friendliness of your voice
• How to have a more masculine or feminine voice
• How to recover from the tired voice
• Management steps 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