Bouncing the Lips
In this step of the Speech Warm-up Series, we look at the lips, and explore warming them up for a certain kind of sound: stop-plosives. We'll get to fricative sounds later in the series. The lips are important in the …
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Centering
Before we begin exploring our speech mechanism, I want us to take a moment to ground ourselves, and focus. The name of the game for speech work is awareness, and awareness arises when we can pay attention to the sensations …
Articulation of L and N on the Gum Ridge
This post is available for download as an audio file. One of the things we work on a lot in my voice and speech classes is isolating the tongue from the jaw. Put simply, the goal is to train the …
Articulation of Fffricatives
This post is available for download as an audio file. In this post, I'll take you through a warm-up exercise for your articulators, in particular the consonant sounds that make friction. But first I'll talk you through a little theory …