Voice Production
uvula - thesmall,fleshy,conicalbodyprojectingdownwardfromthemiddleofthesoftpalate.plays a function in creating guttural sounds in languages like German, and the click sounds of some African languages.
Voice Production
- Respiration – Breathing
air rushes into the nose and throat (oral cavity) and on to the lungs until the air pressure in in lungs equals the air pressure outside the body.
Then, the diaphragm (muscle below rib cage) contracts and forces air out of lungs
**Nose, mouth, trachea or windpipe (connecting tube), lungs(2 spongy saclike chest organs) **
Breathing Exercises
Stand against a wall, contract you abdominal muscles and inhale. Try to insert you hand between your back and the wall. If there is no room for your hand, you know your back is absolutely straights and you are breathing correctly from the diaphragm. Now inhale to the count of 1, 2, 3 and exhale slowly to the count of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
As you inhale, contract your abdominal muscles. As you exhale,relax. You should feel much more relaxed.
Breathing using your Diaphragm
Breathe standing and then bend over from the waist and breathe. Feel the difference – free breathing vs. strained breathing.
2. Vibration – air rushing over vocal cords to produce sound
**Larynx – contains vocal cords **
**Vocal cords – 2 pairs of bands of folds in larynx that vibrate when drawn together
Vocal cords are …
like a rubber band!
What vocal cordsor folds in the larynx really look like!
Vocal cords working
3. Resonation – the amplification (to make louder) and enrichment (make sound better to your ear) of the voice.
Resonators - parts of body that allow sound to echo throat, skull, sinuses, and chest cavity
4. Articulation – shaping sound into intelligible speech
Fixed Articulators – teeth,hard palate, soft palate
Movable Articulator –tongue, jaw, lips
Another word for articulation is enunciation!
Fixed articulators –
- Teeth
- Hard palate (roof of mouth) - bony section of roof of mouth
- Soft palate (roof of mouth) - fleshy section of roof of mouth
Movable articulators –
- Tongue - fleshy muscular organ that aides in
speech, taste, and swallowing
- Lips - 2 fleshy muscular folds that surround
the opening of the mouth.
3. Bottom jaw
What can you do with your voice?
The orchestra in my mouth
What happens when a person is MUTE?
Throwing your Voice
Show me what you can do with your voice!
Gibberish Exercise
You and your partners carry on an animated conversation simultaneously using gibberish, which consists of nonsense or make believe words. Simply use only the term “da-da-shoon”. First, create a scenario/plot. Second, imagine your conversation. Third, babble away.
Use your voice to express your idea (try not to use your hands).