1. Part I: Four Stages to Voice Production Part II: Vocal Controls

2. Respiration Air goes into the lungs equaling air pressure outside body
Diaphragm expands
Chest cavity enlarges making a vacuum
Control diaphragm to release air gradually.

3. Vibration
Air passing over tightened vocal cords (folds in your laryunx)
Size of larynx determines voice sound.

4. Resonance Amplification and enrichment of the voice.
Resonators—throat, skull, sinuses, chest—produces louder, fuller tone.

5. Articulation Production of various speech sounds. Fixed articulators:
teeth, hard palate
Movable articulators:
soft palate, tongue, jaw, lips
Must use moveable articulators as precisely as possible.

6. Voice Q uality Rich—air Firm—relax throat and cords
Resonant—use all w/o overuse

7. Volume—measure of how loud/soft your voice is
Vocal Controls
Volume—measure of how loud/soft your voice is
Vary volume to add meaning to what you are saying.

8. Intensity—force of air out with diaphram.
vary intensity
to communicate emotions
Emphasis—varying volume and intensity
makes a stronger impact.

9. Punctuation suggests pauses
Rate—speed at which you talk
--fast:anger, confusion, excitement
--slow: caution, fatigue, sincerity, hopelessness
“The Pause” used between words, phrases, sentences to add drama and meaning.
“The Frame” pause before and after a word or phrase
Punctuation suggests pauses

10. 5. Pitch—high or low sound of your voice like on a musical scale.
“Inflection”—altering pitch—helps keep audience listening
Have a nice day!

11. (for—fer; to—tuh; athuletic, compuders)
Articulation—clear, precise speaking
“enunciation”
--dropping endings
(ed, ing)
--running words together
(Idoewannago)
--substitute sounds
(for—fer; to—tuh; athuletic, compuders)
Lack education and manners
Detracts from a speaker’s appeal

12. Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
Shall she see sea shells?
Ten tiny trumpters tunefully tuning their ten tiny trumpets.
She thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of her thumb.

13. Red leather, yellow leather.
A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits, and a biscuit mixer.

14. Jeetyet?
Idoe wanna go.
Whudja halfer breakfuss smornin?
Hazzeol papern the cornera theard been pitup?
Jilluni are gonna star the car bar selves.