I want to look at getting your voice ready for speaking. This will have a great impact on you. If you do get nervous. Doing a vocal warmup does a lot to reduce nerves. And even if you don't get nervous, this is really important work. If you want to sound interesting as a speaker, hopefully you've had a look at the breathing and the posture.

And now you're ready to start to speak. Here's an exercise you can do to warm up the voice. The Voice likes to hum more than it likes to speak. It's an easy way of it starting to warm up to try a nice hum for me where you close your mouth around the space like this home um, if you allow some space in the mouth like that, it has a really nice resonance to it which is louder for people. So try that home. Before we open out on an AR, which we're leading to, what I want you to do is experiment with resonating in different places around the head.

I used to do this at the party trick at drama school, where I would imagine that it was a bumblebee in my mouth and that it was trying to get out and it was trying all different spaces. So let's have a guy try humming and resonating into the lips first of all home and then into the nose, how you'll hear that ready nasal sound into the mask of the face. How and then I'll pay for the top of the head so that it has this really nice kind of high vibrating feeling home. Great, so that warms the voice up but it also brings it forward so when we open up on an all it should sound is a voice is bursting out of us just like a bumblebee. Here we go hum Ah, so that's how I want you to warm up for speaking, it's a quick and easy way to do it.

And it's going to make your voice a lot more interesting and let it carry a lot further for you. Another thing people are really worried about it being monotone. So let's tackle that by doing some sirens so that you start to understand how many different news you could be accessing instead of just one note. So take your own range and then just siren like this. Oh, have you done that with me so that I don't feel like full and then go back up again. So Oh, Like that, it's very good to stretch the voice and realize that other notes are available to you.

And you can also do a practice of your speech where you artificially go up and down more than you would normally. So you might speak a bit like this. And then experiment with getting really low and going high again and go up and down like that. Now, it doesn't mean they're going to do it like that. But it does mean it will show you a little bit more color a bit more light and shade and perhaps you're using already get some feedback from other people. And I'm sure they'll tell you it's sounding more interesting.