Voice & Speech for the Professional & Aspiring Actor
In this step, we’ll experiment with variations on Central vowel sounds. So far, we’ve been working our way through the various non-English vowel sounds, starting with Gliding back and forth through the Close Vowels, then Sliding downward with the Front …
In the second part of this step, we took Front vowel sounds that we knew (’cause they are used in English) and modified them (by adding lip-rounding) and created non-English vowel sounds. In this post we’ll do a similar process …
In the first part of this step, we made central vowel sounds that were between places familiar to the mouths of GenAm speakers. Today, we’re going to work on a lot of sounds that can be thought of as variations …
In the last two steps of this series, Ride the Wave of the Tongue Part 1 and Part 2, we explored the action of the tongue to make vowel sounds that are not part of the English set of vowels. …
In Ride the Wave of the Tongue (Part 1), we explored the glide action of the tongue, that can move like a wave in the mouth, especially the forward/backward movement of that wave. That action helps to define the different …