Improve Your Speaking Voice to Teach Online or Podcast

You have a learning style, but you also have a teaching style. I will give you tips to help you identify what that style is to improve the quality of your course content. You could be someone who prefers to use a script, or someone who likes to chat and be more conversational. You may prefer bullet points and power point presentations, or free form discussion with talking head videos. This lecture will help you works best at showing your best asset - you.

If English is your second language learn some skills to help you improve your communication style. This lecture will provide tips on how to get the best out of your voice if you have an accent.

I am not a singer - should I warm up? Learn why it's just as important to warm up even if you are not a singer. Everyone who uses their voice professionally needs a routine to help be at their best. I will show you why in this lecture.

This lecture shows pictures of vocal folds, how they work, and may identify why you are having vocal trouble. This lecture will also help you understand why knowing how your body works will help you use it more efficiently. I provide pictures that will really help you understand voice physiology.

How you sit and stand when speaking has a huge impact on your voice. In this lecture I will go through why it is important, and also show you pictures of correct and incorrect posture, and how changing your posture can dramatically improve your voice. I will provide some tips on how to sit and stand correctly.

I will give you a personal example of what is right and wrong by showing you how I sit while recording my online courses. You may also identity some common mistakes in your own posture.

Breathing is essential to great voice projection. Learn the correct way to breathe by using your diaphragm that will help you speak clearly to get your point across. I will also explain why other breathing styles, such as shallow breathing are not helpful for speaking.

Learn a simple exercise to help project the voice. This projection exercise uses reading text and trying to speak to someone 5-10 feet away.

This voice projection exercise uses the sounds "BO" and "HO" to help focus on using your breath and diaphragm to support volume in the voice.

This lecture will identify some common mistakes we make that can cause vocal fatigue and strain. We will cover how chewing gum, drinking tea and coffee, taking aspirin and smoking can affect the voice negatively.

Some simple tips to overcome common vocal mistakes to improve voice quality. Ideas to keep well hydrated and avoid tension in the throat.

In this lecture I will give you some simple exercises that will help you overcome nerves to come across more confident in your presentation. We will cover things like deep breathing and how to reduce adrenaline that can cause tension in the body.

Some extra tips to help you be the best you can be in your vocal presentation. Learn how colour, tone, rise and fall are important for presentation, as well as the art of storytelling, the speed of your voice, the importance of ebb and flow, and how to reduce 'umm' and 'ahhs', as well as having notes to keep you focussed.

A simple 5 Minute warm up to get your voice ready to record a winning online course! This simple routine covers:

1. Breathing exercise

2. Bww - lip bubbles

3. Brr - tongue roll

4. Mmm - liip buzz

5. Bo Bo Bo/Ho Ho Ho

6. Internal yawn

7. Posture check - are you sitting correctly?

A PDF hand out of all the vocal exercises that you can print out and always have handy in your recording space.

Does your voice sound soft no matter what yo do? I explain in this section why that is and some advanced exercises you can use everyday to improve your voice.

This exercise will teach you to project your voice by connecting sounds to your diaphragmatic breathing

An exercise to improve tone focussing on correct breath connection and placement for good voice projection without effort.

How should you practice and how often? In this lecture I will explain how to get the most out of these exercises and how often you should do them for maximum impact.

A brief description of all we have covered in the course. From voice physiology, how to improve your speaking voice with an accent, the importance of breathing, factors than affect the voice and how to combat them. We also covered some voice projection exercises, how to overcome nerves and a simple 5 minute warm up.

A PPT you can print out for reference of what we have covered in the course.

Final Notes and thank you and how you can contact me in the future. If you would like to leave a review that would be great too!

A little surprise to say Thank you XX