Enhance Your Speaking Voice (Udemy.com)

Your voice says a lot about you - improve your delivery, confidence and performance.

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Created by: Marina Deestan-Jones

Produced in 2018

What you will learn

By the end of this course students will understand the fundamentals of voice production and clear speech delivery for a variety of situations.
In this course students will learn the basics of breath control, articulation, resonance, pitch and tone colour and the part these play in effective speaking.

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Course Description

The sound quality and use of the voice is a fundamental factor in the lives and success of many prominent professional people. Far more so than many of us appreciate. Actors of Stage Screen and Television, Broadcasters, Politicians, Business leaders, Teachers, Clergy and many others, use their voices consciously and deliberately and to inform, persuade or entertain us. What many of us don't realise is that many of these people have worked very hard to master skills and techniques in voice production. Non-professional voice users may not earn their living through their speaking voice but, nevertheless, still want to create a positive and pleasant effect when they speak. You too can familiarise yourself with these techniques and learn how to use your voice to best effect. This course is a basic introduction to voice production and effective speaking. It explains the processes involved in speech and how we can use the speaking voice to best effect whilst taking care of this most valuable asset. Lectures are varied between audio, video and support text. Exercises and reference material are included. This course can be completed initially within 2 - 3 hours and that includes a basic familiarising oneself with exercises. This time would be average for an Introductory Voice and Speech Awareness session with a Voice Tutor. The course is structured logically and all lectures follow on and are discrete enabling the student to return to any section or lecture for skill reinforcement or revision. This course will benefit all voice users and of course anyone who uses their voice professionally - teachers, lecturers, clergy, managers and public speakers. Who this course is for:
Anyone who is interested in making the most of their speaking voice or uses their voice for their professional wellbeing.

Time: 1.5h

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Marina Deestan-Jones

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I've always been fascinated with voices. As a young girl at school in England I can remember mimicking all the voices of the Thunderbirds characters (and doing horrific things to the vocal cords in the process, I now realise!). As girls we were delighted to get all the male voices right too my specialities were Parker, Brains and Jeff Tracy and, naturally, Lady Penelope. Vocal impersonations were certainly an antidote to adolescent shyness and like so many shy girls, I went on to study drama. Id grown up with an awareness of the voice lots of stories and quality radio I think Ive developed a good ear.
After my degree I worked with a small performance company taking new material mostly around the country and to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. After a while I began my teaching career in Salisbury, then Leicester, London, Shropshire, the Welsh Borders and Cheshire - all those differing dialects and accents! Having taught across the age and ability range and in a variety of institutions I moved into Further and Higher Education, lecturing in Performing Arts. In Stoke on Trent I worked with fantastic young people on BTEC Performing Arts Courses and many of them went on to secure places in Drama School overcoming their lack of confidence and resistance (at first) to soften local dialects for audition purposes. Many of the students were so talented yet vocally inhibited but we had regular 3hr sessions devoted to the voice in their courses wonderful! What a luxury! I also b