How to Use Your Voice Brilliantly in Online Sessions

Mandy Randall-Gavin BA (Hons) MIITT MBILDamanda.randall-gavin@ntlworld.comTwitter: @MandyRGMobile: 07525 206 126

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Why Are You Here?

What’s your interest in attending this session?

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What We’ll be Discussing..

• Why some voices inspire, whilst others don’t

• How your emotions affect your voice

• Physicality of your voice

• Effective, fast exercises to develop your voice

• Maintaining a healthy voice

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Whose voice has inspired you and why?

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Some of my Favourites...

Juliet Stevenson

Hugh LaurieJenni Murray

Stephen Fry

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Whose voice has irritated you and

why?

Why Some Voices Inspire-Whilst Others Don’t.

OR...

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Your Voice is Key to the Successof Your Session

• You can’t be seen..but..

• Are you creating pictures in their heads?

• Is your delivery keeping the topic interesting?

• Is your voice full of energy?

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Scientific Bit....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Media-Equation-Television-Information-Publication/dp/1575860538 (http://amzn.to/ecd5ee)

How Your Emotions Affect Your Voice

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So...How Are You Feeling?

Your Emotions & Their Vocal Impact You may feel ...You may feel ....eel .

Your Emotions & Their Vocal Impact You may feel ... Your voice should convey...You may feel ...eel ..

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Your Voice…What Should it Demonstrate?

• Projection• Enunciation• Inflection • Personality• Pause• Vocal stressing • Vocal Analytics

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Projection

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Voice Inflection

• He arrived from Head Quarters yesterday

▫ Statement – inflection goes down

▫ Query – inflection goes up

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Pause…

• Allow your audience some space to think!

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Personality

is your voice conveying any?

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Vocal Stressing• She’s not the Kerry, who you used to know• She’s not the Kerry, who you used to know• She’s not the Kerry, who you used to know• She’s not the Kerry, who you used to know• She’s not the Kerry, who you used to know• She’s not the Kerry, who you used to know

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Enunciation

• Inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping.

• Can I cook a proper cup of coffee in a copper coffee pot?

• Jingle jungle jangle joker.

• Don’t doubt the doorbell, but differ with the doorknob.

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Conversational Analytics – To Be Avoided

• Err• You know• Well…• Erm……• It was …like….

Listen to Yourself……No, Really

Have you ever heard yourself speaking, on a recording and did you like what you heard?

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How to Listen to Yourself

• Use the voice recorder on your mobile

The Physicality of Your Voice

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What’s Impacting Your Voice?

• Lungs (breathe)• Jaw• Lips• Vocal chords• Posture

Effective, Fast Exercises to develop your voice

Breathing Exercises

• Anxiety• Relaxation• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR

w18bu6tv8

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Exercises for The Jaw & Tongue…

• Repeat these phrases several times in a row:▫ Round and Down▫ Red Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers▫ Eeeee-yaaaa▫ Red Leather, Yellow Leather• Read out loud to yourself in front of a

mirror

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Exercises for Jaw & LipsJAW

LIPS

Relax your jaw

Loosen your lips

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Articulation Exercises

• Giddigiday, giddigidie, giddigidah

• Celery raw develops the jaw but celery stewed is more easily chewed

• Articulatory agilityIs a desirable abilityManipulating with dexterityThe jaw, and the tongue, the palate and the lips.

The Diction Pencil

• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

• I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

• She’s not the Kerry who you used to know• Round and round the rugged rock the ragged

rascal ran.

• I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s son, I’m only plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucker comes

Maintaining a Healthy Voice

How to Help your Voice…• Vocal chords wake more slowly

than the rest of you

• Start humming in the shower.

• Sing a verse of your favourite song

• How’s your posture looking?

• Training or delivering first thing in the morning?

▫ Try to avoid coughing. ▫ Don’t smoke. ▫ Drinks lots of water!

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YouTube - Looking After Your Voice

• A US accent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdBKFFELsAM

• A middle England accent http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PolXfXlz3Xc

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Learning Solutions Article

• Learning Solutions Magazine article by Marc Gamble http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/214/using-radio-production-techniques-to-improve-synchronous-communication/page2 (http://bit.ly/f6SP6w)

Thanks everyone, for listening.

Mandy Randall-Gavin BA (Hons) MIITT MBILDamanda.randall-gavin@ntlworld.comTwitter: @MandyRGMobile: 07525 206 126