1. Chapter 10: Voice production
Meagan B. Sovine

2. Breathing Powerhouse of production
How you control your exhalations; not how much air you take in
BREATH CONTROL!!!

3. Breath control The way you use your abdominal muscles
Use of vocal folds
We don’t all use the muscles of respiration the exact same ways
Does your breath pattern allow you to speak effectively?

4. Activity
Turn to page 280.
Do the activity titled, “What’s Your Breathing Type?”
Be prepared to share aloud which type of breather you are.

5. Exercises 1 Abdominal Breathing 2 Breath Control-Duration
3 Breath Control-Breathiness

6. Loudness How loud you are says a lot about you
Soft voices: shy, timid, afraid
Loud voices: overbearing, boorish, overconfident
Usually caused by person’s inability to produce and sustain the proper loudness or failure to monitor his or her own voice

7. Controlling loudness
Place one hand flat against your abdomen just below your breastbone.
Say ahh and hold it.
While you’re saying ahh, hit the back of your hand with your other fist (not too hard).
You should have heard a sudden increase in loudness.
Now try this:
Place both hands on your abdomen.
At the rate of one number per second, count to 4.
Start quietly but make each number louder.
You should feel your abdominal muscles contract suddenly for each number.

8. Exercises 4 Loudness-Force 5 Loudness-Projection 6 Loudness-Control
7 Loudness-Practice

9. pitch Pitch=the highness or lowness of your voice.
Optimum pitch=the pitch that your vocal folds and the size of your resonating cavities are naturally suited to produce.
Habitual pitch=the pitch you use all the time.

10. Exercises 8 Changing Habitual Pitch 9 Progressive Relaxation
10 Fantasy
11 Head Rolling
12 Sighing
13 Yawning

11. quality
The variations you hear, as well as others, are the reflections of changes in what we call voice quality.

12. resonance
The variations in voice quality allow us to assess the meaning over and above what meaning is contained in the context of an utterance.
Vocal personality
Stridency=combination of a very tense quality and high pitch.
Resonance=amplification and modification of sound either by an air-filled chamber, such as the cavities of the vocal tract, or by another object that vibrates sympathetically.

13. Nasality and resonance
The way you alter and select the resonating cavities is very important in determining voice quality and in helping to support a loud tone.
Types of nasality:
Excessive
Too much nasal emission
Denasal
Not enough nasal emission

14. Exercises 14 Nasality-Ear Training 15 Nasality-Pulling
16 Nasality-Pushing
17 Denasality

15. Tense, strident, metallic, and hoarse qualities
Hoarseness=a combination of breathiness and harshness resulting in a voice that sounds very rough.
Excess tension=excess tension in the area of the larynx.
Vocal or Glottal Fry=voice gets rough, bubbly quality, especially at the ends of sentences or thought groups. At these times the pitch lowers considerably and the voice weakens.

16. Exercises 18 Vocal Fry 19 Vocal Fry-Questions
20 Vocal Fry-Questions and Answers
21 Additional Vocal Fry Reading
22 Hard Glottal Attack

17. Review for final exams Pull out your reviews.
Let’s discuss what to expect.
We will also play a Kahoot game 