Q&A for How to Develop a Perfect Speaking Voice

Use your voice to express yourself. Your voice is as unique as a fingerprint and can express your personality and communicate how you feel. You can expand your speaking voice and vocal range to better communicate your thoughts and feelings with others.

Usually, lemon honey tea helps. Water is always useful for helping your voice.

Try using a larger vocabulary of words, words that are more rare to hear coming from someone younger. Speak in a lower pitched tone, as high pitched voices tend to be treated as less mature and can be considered annoying by some. Speak slowly and clearly, don't jumble your words together.

Practice speaking slowly in front of a mirror. If you do this regularly, you'll learn to adapt and you'll be able to speak slowly and hold onto your thoughts at the same time.

Try speaking slower and taking deep breaths. You are probably speaking too fast, or even thinking too fast, making your tongue disconnected from your brain.

Speaking softly can be ideal for some personalities, suggesting that you're a kind and sweet person. If this is the style of voice that suits you, then yes, it's perfect too.

Yes. This is a common problem. It is important to address this issue as it can make you shy about public speaking or affect your self-esteem.

Practice all the above steps, with a voice recorder until you start to enjoy listening to your recorded voice. Once you're happy with what you hear, you will feel more confident having people listen to you.

Stopping your stammering can be very difficult, but there are a few things you can do. To start, think through what you want to say completely before saying it. Don't start speaking until you've thought out everything you intend to say. Find someone who is willing to be a conversational partner for you and practice speaking to them daily; this could help you become more comfortable with speaking quickly. wikiHow also has some articles that might help you, like [[Stop Stammering|How to Stop Stammering]].

Keep it simple and small. Soft and subtle smiles are the best choice because they look natural even when you are nervous. You don't need to smile the whole time, especially when you're talking about something serious.

See a voice coach. If you are unable to do that, try watching videos of people talking online and copy how they speak. Try saying one syllable at a time. Once you've perfected that, put every syllable together and perfect that. Do this with every word you have trouble pronouncing. Record yourself speaking and see how it measures up against the speakers you've been copying.

Stay calm, look confident, and make up the whole thing by saying the summary of what the speech was about with a few "big" words thrown in. Tell a story you know well and relate it back to the theme of the speech. At least the crowd will have been entertained.

People don't usually hear themselves the way others hear them, and recordings of your voice are usually more accurate than what you sound like in your head. If you want to be sure, ask friends or family to what extent the recording sounds like your real voice. You can improve your voice by recording it until you like the sound of what you hear, then just practice using whichever manner of speaking you used to create that. And you can always ask others for feedback as well.

The answer is simply repetition. If you have a rehearsed line, repeat it over and over, going faster and faster each time.

Try talking in a higher pitched voice and talk a bit faster then you usually do. It will help improve your "speaking" voice and your "talking" voice.

Avoid spicy foods that can harm your vocal chords.

Open up your throat and take a really deep breath. This expands your diaphragm. While speaking, do not strain your head in any way, remember the breath, and push the air from your diaphragm and out your mouth.

Speak from your diaphragm and with confidence. Practice by recording yourself and playing it back until you're satisfied with how it sounds.

Pay attention to your tone to sound light and pleasant. If you find yourself sounding too serious, smile as you speak to lighten your tone and give off a more pleasant vibe.

Smile and take deep breaths and act confident. Practice often, especially if you have a debate or public speaking engagement coming up. The more sure you feel about what you're going to say, the more confident you will be.

If you are talking about having as a smaller voice, in general, it helps to stand straight up on both feet with a straight posture, put all your weight on your feet and breathe so your stomach rises first and not your chest. If your chest rises first, that's shallow breathing.

Try to add some vocal variance. Listen to the expressions other people use when speaking. If there is a particular person whose voice you rather admire, use that as inspiration. Listening to music with clear vocals can also help you learn how to incorporate different tones into your voice.

Everyone (even native English speakers) mispronounce words sometimes. You can Google a word you're unsure of to see how it's pronounced. Then, repeat the correct pronunciation several times (out loud) to cement it in your memory.

No, that is not true.

I have this problem at times, but I have found that taking a deep breath before talking helps to control it. You could also sip some water to help as well.

Practice using a softer voice while on the phone. Talk as gently as you can.

Lower your pitch, and push out that deep sound with your diaphragm. Don't strain yourself while doing this.

if you are rehearsing lines, at first say them much more slowly than sounds normal. Keep doing this long after you think you need to; then, when you try to say them normally, you'll have slowed your voice down. Record yourself talking at different speeds, pick one, and try to keep that same speed up the whole time.

Picture the audience in their underwear, a lot of people say that that helps with public speaking fears, or you can pretend that you're speaking to just your friends, that can help as well.

Try speaking slowly, and feel each word come out of your mouth. Focus on one word, then the next.