For Good Voice Culturing
| Breathe control | Correct singing technique |
| Clarity of voice | Good resonance |
| Easy voice production | Clear vowel modulations |
Types of Voices
| Low voice ( Deep voice with a deep sound ) | |
| Breathy ( Breathing noises throughout speaking and singing ) | |
| Flat ( Monotone voice ) | |
| Hoarse ( When throat is sore they have to speak in low and rough voice ) | |
| Penetrating ( When voice is high pitched it is uncomfortable to listen ) | |
| Throaty ( Comes from deep down ) | |
| Wheezy ( Sounds like difficulty in breathing while speaking ) |
Purpose of Vocology
- It helps to improve voice stamina.
- Create excellence in voice culturing.
- It helps user to have healthy voice.
- Creates voice discipline to users.
- In every voice to implement scientific voice production.
Common Voice Problems
- Unscientific voice production.
- Vocal misuse, overuse and abuse.
- Poor breathe support during phonation.
- Laryngeal muscle tension.
- Vocal cord swelling and vocal nodules.
- Poorly ventilated spaces.
- Speaking with frequency that is low.
Tips for our vocal hygiene
- Increased vocal cord lubrication.
- Breathe through nasal so air can be filtered, properly humidified by the sinuses and nose.
- Avoid smoking, irritants, drinking of alcohol.
- Practice diaphragmatic breathing.
- Eat in time to avoid indigestion and acid reflux.
- Try to avoid too hot and too cold food items.
- Go to sleep only two hours after eating.
- Avoid too chilli and savour food items.
- Avoid vocal abuse.
- Try to relax throughout body.
- Reduce stress and practice voice warm up exercise.
- Learn voice production technique.
Main Voice Disorders
- Vocal nodule
- Phonatory gap
- Puberphonia
- Vocal cord paralysis
- Muscle tension dysphonia
- Vocal cord cancer
- Spasmodic dysphonia
- Laryngitis
- Leukoplakia
Methods to treat your voice
Mouth exercises, yoga and meditations that you can try to treat your voice .
Warming exercise for video production
| 1. Open and close your mouth slowly for 6 times. This will help to reduce tension in the chin muscles. | |
| 2. Extend your tongue out and take it back slowly for 6 times. | |
| 3. Just inside of your lower teeth place the tip of your tongue and open and close your mouth slowly 6 times. | |
| 4. By closing your mouth rotate your tongue clockwise and anti clock wise. | |
| 5. For 6 times do artificial yawning. | |
| 6. By pushing your abdominal muscles inwards and make ‘shick’ sound for 2 times. Then add vowel sound with ‘shick’ sound. | |
| 7. Inhale through nose and while exhaling vibrate lips without opening your mouth for 4 minutes. | |
| 8. Create sound by touching upper palate with tip of tongue for 3 minutes. |
Pranayama ( Nadisodhana )
Close the right nostril with your thumb and inhale for 6 seconds through the left nostril. Then close both holes for 6 seconds. Then exhale through your right nostrils for the 12 seconds. Inhale through the same hole again for the 6 seconds. Close both holes. Then exhale through left ventricle for the 12 seconds and leave. Alternate this and continue doing for about 15 minutes. God given for human beings to restore sound health and general health of the body, pranayama is the most divine medicine given. It is best to do it on an empty stomach in the early morning. 10 minutes after pranayama rest is required that’s must.
Straw Phonation Exercises Or SOVT
This is a vocal exercise done with a narrow vocal tract. It is a best exercise because they will create secondary resistance in vocal tract. That takes away about half in the pressure. It is healthier and less pressurized way. These exercises are used in both the area of speech pathology, voice coaching and vocal pedagogy. While doing SOVT exercise make sure that no air is escaping through our nose and also around the lips. Straw phonation will increase circulation to the vocal cord and providing them a good stretch.
Advantages of Straw Phonation exercises
- Vocal straw exercises helps in engaging our abdominal muscles which are essential for production of big vocal sounds.
- Its best way to activate an open throat.
- It is also a great way to activate upper facial resonance without any strain on the voice.
- Vocalisation through a straw can be quick and very effective way to rest and free our voice.
- There is less stress on vocal fords while they continue to stretch in balanced position.
Warming Up Exercises – Straw Phonation
Place a straw in mouth and try the following exercises.
| 1. Siren Sound | 4. Hum a melody through straw |
| 2. Bee Sound | 5. Voice glide |
| 3. Humming Sound | 6. Ascending or Descending |
Lax Vox Voice Therapy
Lax vox is that using a tube or straw so that vocal cord can vibrate freely and produce nice resonant healthy voices.
- This therapy helping to reach expected target voice.
- Improves vocal efficiency.
- Gives maximum vocal economy.
- Resonant voice.
Lax Vox Voice Advantages
- It is easy to follow, teach, learn and perform at home.
- It’s a holistic therapy for organic and functional voice disorder.
- Lax voice is useful for voice professionals to find position of singing.
Voice Is Everything, Love It
A sweet voice can attract and comfort many people and it is a gift of a God. Realize your voice, modulate it properly and make use of it.
How Yoga Have Role In Voice Maintenance
Morning is the best time to practice yoga. Minimum daily 15 – 20 minutes practice required for make it effective.
Different postures ( Asanas ) to maintain our good voice.
| Simhasana – It removes the defects of nose, mouth and improves voice. | |
| Matsyasana – It strengthens respiratory system, vocal cords and voice articulation. | |
| Dhanurasana – It strengthens the back and abdominal muscles. | |
| Savasana – To relax your body and mind. | |
| Sarvangasana – It helps to improve the process of breathing. |
Different deep breathing exercises ( Pranayama ) to maintain good voice.
| Ujjayi ( Victorious breathe ) | Bastrika ( Bellow’s breathe ) |
| Seethali ( Cooling breathe ) | Anuloma-Viloma (Nostril breathing ) |
Benefits
- It improves our blood circulation.
- Builds self confidence.
- Relaxation to our body and mind.
- Keeps away cardio vascular problems
- Purifies the nerve system.
- It provides relief from stress, hypertension and depression.
- It also improves our concentration.
- Cures asthma, migraine and headache.
Meditation ( Dhyana ) helps to improve our voice production . It helps to refresh and feels you better and ready to face challenges of life. Meditation gives us deep rest and also safeguard from chronic diseases and cancer. There are many more benefits of meditation. Daily meditation can calm your body.
