The Sound of Your Voice

By Carol A. Fleming and Carol A. Flemming

Book Overview

As a speech communication consultant and speech pathologist, Dr. Carol Fleming has helped people work on their voice images for many years. In this remarkable audio program, Dr. Fleming helps you identify your voice image and provides techniques for correcting any communication problem.

The Sound of Your Voice takes you step-by-step through the fundamentals of good vocal technique. You will learn:

- What your voice says about you
- How to analyze your voice and diagnose its problems
- How to modify regional dialects and get rid of annoying mannerisms
- How to become more assertive
- Breath and tonal support exercises to bring strength and clarity to your voice
Using real-life speaking situations to demonstrate various voice characteristics, The Sound of Your Voice is an essential audio program for anyone who needs to communicate confidently and clearly.

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743551796
• ISBN13: 9780743551793
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

The Best I've Heard

A lively, compact and professional quick course. This is aimed at personal communication. Although applicable to public speaking, that is only addressed by-the-way. There are clearly-directed exercises with time estimates to achieve results. You'll need a tape recorder with a microphone to get very much from the exercises. Superb sound quality. Tapes only, no text.If you want to speak more clearly, or if you want to sound more like an announcer, or if you want your speaking to have more impact, this will probably help. The title is very accurate. It could also be called, "Speak Like You Want Them To Listen."

A good guide to understanding your voice

The author is quite professional and appears to know what she is doing. The 4 tapes are enjoyable and not too technical. They cover all aspects of the human voice and give helpful exercises for making improvements. I was quite pleased with this set of tapes. They deliver what they promise.

Covers a wide variety of speech and voice problems

This is an excellent audiobook covering all aspects of better speech and overall communication. Carol Fleming helps you add vitality to your voice, speak using your natural pitch, avoid whininess and raspiness, avoid using "filler" words and overused superlatives, and a lot more. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in changing some aspect of his/her voice.

Finally got!! What I wanted !!

I recently bought "The Sound of Your Voice" by Dr Carol Fleming. After listening to all the 4 cassettes, I felt I made a right choice. I was really impressed by the concepts discussed in the cassettes, I must say. Citing the practical real-life examples, Dr Carol Fleming helps us in analyzing the qualities of a good voice. There are several exercises & assignments, which help us identifying our voice defects & subsequenly correct them. I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in improving his or her 'sound of voice'.

1st Rate Advice for Those to Busy to Consult a Voice Coach

With polish, wit and charm, Carol Flemming and a team of voice professionals presents a well organized and thorough audio program covering the difficult subject of voice control. As a working lawyer often asked to appear in court, I have long sought the elusive Holy Grail of a powerful speaker's voice. Too busy to consult a voice coach, I turned to several books, discovering that to learn this skill, it really first needs to heard. Enter Carol Flemming's 4 tape audio presentation, The Sound of Your Voice. Her program includes helpful illustrations and practice exercises that get the heart of the matter fast. Carol teaches you how to achieve a melodic voice that actually invites other to listen. I liked best of all the style of Carol and her team, which was professional and graceful (no first-timers here). Finishing the program, my voice felt an instant mastery of the basics and a new-found confidence. Even everyday communication with family and friends has became more pleasurable. I recommend this resource as a definite gift to the voices of working professionals on the go.