Personal Assessment - Voice

I feel as if I have many weaknesses when it comes to my voice as I fail to show emotion in my voice when on stage. I have also noticed that I speak with a fast pace which makes it hard for people to understand what I'm saying and have to ask me to repeat myself. To help me to improve this when reading from a script I can put a forward slash at the start of a new subject and make that a pause before I carry on with the new subject. For example I want tea/ I'm very cold. I also mumble sometimes when saying words and don't pronounce them properly. To improve this I will work on the words I find hard to pronounce and practice saying them correctly for when I perform on stage.One weakness that I would love to be able to do is accents, I'm not good at them and I think it would be a great skill to have if I could. I also find it hard to develop a characters voice, I think it's because I've never really been taught how to use my voice properly. To help me with this I could use the techniques we're using in voice and use them to help me change my tone in voice and maybe look into an accent and try and pick it up.

I don't have many strengths when it comes to my voice but I think one of my strengths is definitely projection as I speak quite loud anyway which is great for when I perform on stage. I would say my voice is very confident which is a good thing because it means I'm not going to get nervous when speaking and it shows I've learnt my lines.

Vocal Health Poster

Portfolio Articulation

The third element of speech production is articulation. Articulation is the term used for all actions of the organs of the vocal tract that effect modifications of the signal generated by the voice source. This modification results in speech events which can be identified as vowels, consonants or other units of a language.

The passive place of articulation is the place on the more stationary part of the vocal tract where the articulation occurs. It can be anywhere from the lips, upper teeth, gums, or roof of the mouth to the back of the throat.

* The speech organs used to make the sounds are the tongue, lips and palate.

The human voice produces sounds in the following manner

1. Air pressure from the lungs creates a steady flow of air through the trachea (windpipe), larynx (voice box) and pharynx (back of the throat).
2. The vocal folds in the larynx vibrate, creating fluctuations in air pressure that are known as sound waves.
3. Resonances in the vocal tract modify these waves according to the position and shape of the lips, jaw, tongue, soft palate, and other speech organs, creating formant regions and thus different qualities of sonorant (voiced) sound
4. Mouth and nose openings radiate the sound waves into the environment.