Voice & Speech for the Professional & Aspiring Actor
This is great. Joanna Cazden, who is an LA-based SLP and Voice specialist, published a guest post over on the “Speak Schmeak” blog. My favourite part: A vague feeling of phlegm or “something’s in my throat” can be a leading symptom …
Today is World Voice Day. This year the theme is “make your voice count” and we’re called upon to let people know about how important voice is in everyday life. From teachers, to politicians, to medical professionals, to lawyers, to …
Earlier this week I did a post on Lightening your Dark L . Today we’ll compare that quality and exploration with the nature of vowel R’s. What’s a vowel R you ask? We distinguish between two kinds of R generally— …
Dark L is the version of the /l/ consonant that most English speakers use at the ends of syllables, after a vowel, as in tile, hull, school. Depending on your accent, you may have a different kind of /l/ sound …
Where does the time go? So I haven’t been writing VoiceGuy for the past few years. What have I been up to instead? I have been, occasionally, working with my friend and colleague, Phil Thompson from UC Irvine, on a …