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Breath from your diaphragm

By Debbie
January 24th, 2006

Breath Deep!

Deep breathing helps carry sound farther without straining your voice!

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Toastmaster Tip: Breath from your Diaphragm!

Speech and Sound Production and Transmission Flow Chart
Air Supply Diaphragm and ribs put pressure on the lungs to produce columbs of air under pressure to supply it to the voal cords
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Sound Production Vocal cords in the larnyx produce sound (different pitches and volumes) which is passed to
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Vocalization of Speaker's Ideas Throat, tongue, teeth, lips shape sounds and give colour and interest and produce words, phrases, and sentances vocalizing ideas and passing (projecting) them on to...
Transmission down arrow (Air)
Reception The Listener's Ears

Diaphragm Excercise

Breath in deeply (through the nose) to fill your lungs quickly

Force breath out slowly through the mouth while saying:
Explosive HO!...HO!...HO! (bounce off diaphragm)

Repeat five or six times.

Extend the number of HOs per breath as far as you can by working on the depth of breath you are able to take in.

Repeat using FEE!...FIE!...FO!...FUM!

Voice Projection System Diagram

Voice Projection System

-- Debbie

Related Tip: Deep Breathing Excercise to Build Voice Projection

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