Name: Voice Training for Clearer Speech: Introduction to the Tarle Speech Voice Series
Uploaded: 2025-12-01T17:55:45.000Z
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Voice is the sound we make when we speak.

It comes from the air in our lungs and it passes through our vocal cords, and

It is almost like a fingerprint of how we speak.

Everyone sounds a little bit different, but there are some commonalities with voice based on your native language.

And if your goal is to sound clear, confident, and

engaging in English, then let's learn about the voice in English and how it sounds different than your native language.

I like to use five terms to describe your voice.

Women tend to have higher pitch and men tend to have lower pitch.

But we all have a pitch range that we use, and

Loudness is how loud or how soft our voice is.

It could be a soft or it could be like we are yelling to our children, come back.

How loud or how soft the intensity of our speaking.

This is a little squishier, and it's a little harder to define.

For many people, it's things like smoothness, breathiness.

These are words that people would use to describe the quality of someone's voice is resonance.

And that is where your sound originates from.

Where is it mainly coming from when you are speaking?

And this can be a friendly tone where I'm using a lot of different pitch changes.

This can also be that tone that you hear when you're listening to Instagram videos and cooking reels, when people speak in this sort of breathy whisper.

Or it can be a very loud and direct and assertive tone that you may hear on some podcasts when someone is very passionate about something.

So all of these are different things that we do with our voice to be perceived differently.

So what are the keys to a good, strong, natural.

I'm going to call it American English voice.

We have a pretty big pitch change compared to some other languages.

I can start sort of in the middle here, but then I'll go up here.

If I'm really excited and I might come down here if I am feeling a little more somber.

Breathing into your chest, filling up your lungs with air, and

having a lot of air to push through the vocal cords to have a nice strong voice.

When I am speaking, when I am presenting, when I am having a conversation with you, I think about hitting you with my voice.

I think about and visualize air coming from my diaphragm and my chest and coming out and touching you so that you can hear me clearly.

I am just directing my airflow towards you.

Resonance in English tends to come from your chest.

Some other languages, they may speak more from the throat, some may speak more from the head, some may have more forward or more back resonance.

But in English, the resonance tends to come from the chest.

That makes us sound a little bit louder as we hit you with our voice when we are projecting.

And it also allows for that bigger pitch range because I can start lower, but

And this gives me really good breath support so I'm not out of breath when I'm speaking and.

And that allows me to be overall clearer and confident in my speaking.

So if you are interested in learning more about voice, some ways to improve your overall speaking, and

some trends that you may or may not want to adopt, join me for the next few weeks as we explore voice and and how to use it to sound clear and confident when you are speaking.

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