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How Stress Affects Your Voice

You’re in the middle of a big presentation. Your throat feels tight, your voice cracks, and suddenly projecting your words feels harder than usual. Sound familiar? Stress, anxiety and nervousness don’t just live in your mind, they live in your body too. The success of communication, whether at work or in everyday life, is closely tied to your thoughts and emotions. This article outlines how stress can impact your voice and how to take back control.

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Two Paths In Voice Therapy: Manual Voice Therapy and Resonance

When people think about voice therapy, they often imagine exercises that train the voice directly. While that is certainly one approach, voice therapy can also involve working with the body itself to release tension. This can involve improving posture, and directly releasing muscle tension, to create the right conditions for the voice to function more freely.

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What Is Vocal Resonance?

When most people think about their voice, they tend to focus on the sound that comes out of their mouth. They might notice the pitch of their voice, whether it is high or low. They might notice the loudness, whether they are speaking softly or projecting strongly. But there is another important quality of the voice that often goes unnoticed until something feels “off.” This quality is called vocal resonance.

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A Guide To Conversation Training Therapy

As a speech-language pathologist (SLP) at Well Said, I often work with adults who come in with voice concerns that affect their work, their confidence, and their quality of life. One therapy approach that many people find helpful is called Conversation Training Therapy, or CTT. It’s a newer method that’s gaining attention for being practical, efficient, and very much focused on real life. In this blog post, I would like to walk you through what CTT is, who it is for, how it works. My hope is that by the end, you’ll have a better understanding of how this type of therapy might help you find ease and confidence in your voice again.

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Neurological Voice Disorders – Causes, Types, Assessment, And Treatment

Neurological voice disorders are voice disorders that are caused due to any damage in the nervous system. This may affect the pitch, quality, volume of the voice and may also result in an increase in the vocal effort to produce speech. These disorders not only reduce a person’s ability to speak clearly but can also significantly affect their quality of life, self-esteem, and social interaction.

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Pitch Related Voice Disorders – Causes And Treatment

Pitch is a component of voice that determines how high or low it sounds. It is an important feature that determines a voice. Generally, a feminine voice has a higher pitch and a masculine voice has a lower pitch. The pitch of a voice is determined by a number of factors which are: the size of the vocal folds, the size of the larynx, the muscles of the larynx and the number of times vocal folds vibrate while producing voice.

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Voice Disorders In Professional Users

Professional voice users are people whose voice is essential for their jobs. Professional voice users include singers, teachers, speech language pathologists, actors, broadcast personalities, clergy and salespeople. Unlike other professionals who can do certain modifications to not use their voice and function adequately, professional voice users need to use their voice to perform their job requirements.

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How The Voice Works

I’ve always found it helpful and interesting to discuss how different parts of speech actually work in the body. This can be helpful for clients to picture in their minds what an SLP is seeing, and for clients to be on the same page about why it may be important to work on areas such as breath support or enunciation. I wanted to take some time today to provide some summaries about the physiology of speech.

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Voice Disorders Due To Vocal Abuse And Misuse And Their Prevention

Voice is produced by the vibration of vocal folds. The vocal folds are 2 bands of muscular tissue that are situated in the voice box or larynx. The vibrations of the vocal folds change the streams of air from the lungs to voice. In ideal speaking situations, this process is appropriate and the vocal folds stay healthy. But in non-ideal situations like vocal abuse and vocal misuse, the vocal folds are not healthy and this causes voice disorders.

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What Type Of Breather Are You?

Breathe in, breathe out…seems pretty simple, right? Well, you may be surprised to know there are actually multiple types of breathing patterns and only one is most efficient when speaking or singing. Today we will go through 4 different types of breathing patterns, starting with the optimal breathing pattern.

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Why Does My Voice Keep Cracking?

Undesirable vocal behavior can occur for various reasons, and within my practice I have found that understanding the cause is always integral to finding the solution. If you struggle with a voice that is unreliable and cracks without warning, keep reading to learn some of the possible explanations, as well as strategies to develop a stronger, more consistent voice.

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What Is Uptalk?

You may not be aware of what uptalk is but it refers to the rising intonation in the end of sentences. When uptalk is used continuously in someone’s speech, it may seem as they are constantly asking questions when they may be wanting to make statements. But why is up talk even important to mention?

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Diaphragmatic Breathing

Diaphragmatic breathing is a deeper, more relaxed breathing, which results in a more powerful voice, verses clavicular breathing which leads to vocal cord tension;and causes your voice to be quieter, and harder to hear. One of our Speech Language Pathologists explains the differences, and how diaphragmatic breathing helps you to speak more loudly and sound more powerful.

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Singing Voice Therapy

This blog post highlights the benefit of finding a speech-language pathologist who is a singing voice therapist (sometimes called a voice coach), as they will be able to provide their expertise within the medical model. Read on for helpful information about treating vocal challenges, trauma, and the proper care for your singing voice.

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What is Voice Therapy?

This blog posts addresses frequently asked questions, beginning with “what is voice therapy?” and who can benefit. Many people are motivated to change and improve their voice. Perhaps you’re someone who uses their voice a lot for work (a teacher, lawyer, or yoga instructor, for example). Maybe you’d like to sound more authoritative, more mature. Read on to learn how voice therapy can help you to improve your communication.

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Working with your Voice

 In the case of call centre agents, these techniques can include warm up exercises prior to commencing the job, teaching good posture to prevent strain of the voice, determination of comfortable pitch and loudness volume as well as how to alternate pitch instead of increasing loudness to emphasize a point

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