Relishing Vowel Length
To Relish, the verb, means ” To take pleasure or delight in; to enjoy greatly,” and ” To give flavour or relish to; to make appetizing. Also fig.” or so the OED tells us. So when I encourage an actor to relish …
Year: 2012
Hiatus this week
Due to a family health crisis, Voiceguy is on hiatus this week. Regular posts should return on May 17. Thanks for your patience! I have added a new Intelligibility Series page to the Warm-up Series tab above.
Sipping the Soft Palate Up
If you’ve been looking at this site, you’ll know that the three Voice warm ups ( Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced ), you will know that each warm-up features a step that’s about the soft palate. It turns out that my …
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Muscles and structures of voice
I searched Twitter for #voice #speech and came up with this great link to a PDF of a slideshow by Berkeley’s Keith Johnson for his linguistics 110 course. It features images of anatomical structures involved in breathing and voicing (aka …
Give me excess of it: Post-vocalic Continuants
ORSINO: If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. One of the more challenging things an actor must tackle in trying to be more intelligible in a large venue is dealing with the tendency …