Is Your Voice Telling on You?: How to Find and Use Your Natural Voice

by Daniel R. Boone

Book Overview

Your Voice is Telling on You. The Basic Mechanisms of the Natural Voice. Enemies of a Natural Voice. You and Your Natural Voice. To Breathe or Not To Breathe? Loud Enough or Too Loud? The Well-Aimed Pitch. Is Your Voice in Focus? Talking Through Your Nose. Keeping Your Natural Voice Under Stress. Stage Fright and Related Fears. Telephones and Microphones and Your Natural Voice. The Women and Her Voice. The Man and His Voice. Ten Easy Steps for Keeping...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879105039
• ISBN13: 9781879105034
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Singular Publishing Group
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good Practical Advice for Improving Your Voice

As a non-professional (in terms of not being a singer, although I do frequently use my voice in my job), I believe Boone has written an excellent title full of practical advice for improving your voice. I concur with the earlier reviewer that the book is decidedly targeted towards the layperson. Considering that the author's audience is probably mainly nonprofessionals who only want to improve their voice, this is a sound approach. Among the helpful areas convered in the book include: 1. Problems with too loud or too soft a voice. 2. Suggestions for improving your voice's loudness. 3. Stressful situations and physical stressors that can affect your voice. 4. 6 ways to control stage fright. 5. Common problems of the male and female voice. 6. Voice tips for men and women. 7. 10 suggestions for keeping your natural voice. If you are a nonprofessional who is interested in improving your voice, then I highly recommend this title as a practical and helpful tool. Read and enjoy!

A good book for novices in the field of voice

Daniel Boone , a renowned name in the field of speech pathology, has written a readable self help book for any person who is keen on improving his/her voice. 'Voice Care & Vocal Enhancement' is a complex and specialised subject .But, Daniel Boone has written it in a simple, easy to understand format which would appeal even to a novice.The tests devised to gauge the various parameters of the voice viz. breath control, loudness level, optimum pitch, tone focus are easy to follow.The exercises for improving various aspects of the voice can be easily understood and performed by the reader. However,the book is aimed mainly at the layperson and is not for you if you are a singer or performing artiste who has a fair knowledge of the voice.