@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 4:51

Speaking School Lesson 1 FINDING YOUR VOICE

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Because, to be honest, none of us like to hear our voice recorded. And so hopefully, in doing this, we can find a place of acceptance and peace around what our own voice sounds like and also identify some places that we might like to change or embellish to be more reflective of who we feel that we are. So all right, you're going to listen to yourself on a recording and describe in words in adjectives what you hear

http://bit.ly/SpeakingSchool_01 How do you feel about talking ..about your voice ? What does it feel like to speak? To hear your own voice?

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@CallMeNick
Anony Mouse
@CallMeNick · 0:27
I used to hate my voice, but once I got into music and I started recording more music, rap music and stuff, and started receiving more compliments on my voice and hearing my own voice over and over. I eventually got used to it and more comfortable with it. And so, yeah, I'm okay with my voice, and it just feels like hearing anybody else when I hear my own voice. Now
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@dlhastings
Daniel Hastings
@dlhastings · 2:12
Hey, thanks for posting this lesson. My name is Daniel. I have done a fair amount of speaking in my career, a little bit of public speaking, a lot of presenting and speaking in front of groups and some amount of recording. So I've heard my voice a lot. I tend to listen back to it now. I'm used to how it sounds. It was shocking at first
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@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 2:40

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

Hi, thank you for starting these classes. I am really looking forward to the classes helping me become better, both in terms of posting better spells that people can listen to as well as when I am speaking in public to answer your questions. The first one you are right. I guess like most people, I hate the way I sound when I record and hear myself played back. And part of it is I think I speak too fast, especially in like doing presentations and meetings and talking to people
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@FryedOreo
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 3:43

I’m fine with my voice, I just need to work on the creativity behind it.

So I've been getting complimented on my voice so much that it makes sense why I do this voice audio stuff. Whatever reason, I come right back to it again and again and again. And I would say something. Actually, I heard somebody talk about Toastmasters. My Toastmasters was social audio apps. That's how I got better with speaking. I would be on Yahoo voice chat talking all the time, way back in the day
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:47

Private Swell code for Speaking School is 00UJ5T0C0O or we can invite you

Just drop in the code and you'll be entered into the private swell. Another way is just to respond here and say, hey, invite me to the private Swell and we will do that and you'll automatically be entered into that. So you can have a little sort of more private way to connect about any issues you might be having in the class. So looking forward to more lessons. And here is the co I'll paste it right here in the description
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@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 4:20

What a great start !!

We are reliant completely on the voice and the words we are choosing and the Pardes we take and how much we're breathing and how much interest we're adding to our pitches as we speak. So there's a lot we can do. But we're overcoming becoming the absence of visual cues because, boy, when we're face to face with someone, we do get a lot of information that we're not getting in this platform. So that's just another thing to think about
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@Fork_Travel
Michele Falk
@Fork_Travel · 1:49
I'm okay with speaking in front of people or speaking to people, but I do have a tendency of rushing, especially if I'm nervous or very excited and just trying to not let my voice linger in the lower ranges. I have a low voice for a female, so sometimes I have to make the mental push to raise it up a little bit in tone. So that way I don't come across as being monotone. I don't mean to
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@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 0:04

@DBPardes - please invite me to the Tutorial Swell

Can you please add me to the private tutorials as well
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@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 0:41

Welcome! Sounds like you are developing a good awareness around your voice

Hello. Hi. Fork Travel. This is Allie. Welcome. Glad you joined us. It sounds like the two things that you have an interest in looking at in your own voice are pitch and rate of speech. So we'll be talking about those things and stick around. And I'm looking forward to more discussion in that area. Your awareness of your voice is commendable
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:20

https://app.swell.life/swellcast/hapf

Hi, this is Deborah. I think I'm going to be called the teaching assistant to Ali at the speaking school. I'm going to post here lesson number two so you can get to it easily. I'm also going to invite each of you individually to this class, this lesson, because if you got involved here, I want to make sure you get involved there. And off we go
@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@Brooks
Brooks VB
@Brooks · 4:13

A mumbly voice. Please send an invite!

And I hope maybe through this class I can understand that little better and figure out how to throw my voice and enhance it a little bit. So I'm Super excited, maybe some critiques again, mumbliness, I think the mumbling hasn't been so much a problem for a while. However, I do recognize that sometimes in certain conversations, if it's like a more emotional conversation, I suppose, or a conversation where I'm less comfortable, that's definitely where the mumbliness comes out
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@Brooks
Brooks VB
@Brooks · 1:12

I'd like to be able to sing like Reignwolf: gravely, heavy, powerful

And there's definitely a certain artist that comes to mind that I'd like to understand how to emulate because his voice, his name is Rainwolf, and he does, like a very kind of heavy, hard hitting, gravelly, powerful kind of voice. And man, I wish I could sing like that something times not in all the music I make, but I had the option of singing like that. That would sure be fun, if anything, I suppose
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@Brooke415
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 4:37

@DBPardes heads up, you get a tribute, sorry. @Swell long time, no talk! 💕

I laugh at all my own jokes. I have a list. It's hard for me to pronounce my S's, and yet when I do pronounce them, I pronounce them right into the microphone so that there's a loud it doesn't sound good. There's a loud sound into the microphone as well. With TS, I tend to overdo the T into the microphone and it hurts the ear. If you're wearing I'm wearing earbuds. I tend to end on a high note
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@Brooke415
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 0:02
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@BlusDada
Blavita Herrin
@BlusDada · 1:36

Thank you for this, I hope to learn some things to improve my speaking!

My voice is, in my opinion, to monotone. I think people have a hard time understanding what I'm saying because my voice comes in at a frequency that is right in the middle of the line, so it's not too high. It's not too soft. It just hits the middle monotone voice. It's hard to hear. I think for people also, I struggle with talking too fast and people have a hard time understanding with that as well
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@Brooke415
Brooke C.
@Brooke415 · 1:56

@BlusDada to Swell ! Have tygbQbbvzgolk(11. Bbbbb ;

Maybe I don't do anything about the names you choose to go by or sorry, but anyway, we're all kind of semi new here, but I was just going to say that's awesome. This is your first well, and I was the first one to react to it and the first one to reply, and I could say welcome, and I can hear what you're saying, but I don't agree. So there you go. Here's your first fight. Put them up
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@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 1:06

Welcome !

Lesson three, which will come on today. I'm going to talk about next is going to be about replenishing the breath. And I think quite a few of the concerns or awareness that you came up with Brooke, and also Blues Data will be supported and discussed in lesson three. So I'm happy that you're here and stick around. Let's keep doing this together
@ZikaLunar12
Lunar B
@ZikaLunar12 · 2:50
Sometimes, for example, I don't know how my voice sounds to you, to everybody who are native English. Other thing like I try to do to get better. I don't do exercises to improve, but I do watch videos from people who have a good accent or something. But the voice is very important, even for confidence, because if you're not confident about your voice, you cannot become a good speaker. This can happen even for natives
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:32

@ZikaLunar12 @SpeakingSchool

Hey Lunar so happy that you like this class and your comments are so interesting and Speaking School has a couple of classes now I guess I think that we're on our 7th one so you can follow. So the Swell cast called at Speaking school, and if you go to that Swell cast, you can see the list of all the different classes. And I'll put that name on here as well so you can make sure you file but welcome to swell
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@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 1:14

Welcome !

But you know what I'd love to do? I'd love to hear you speak Portuguese and hear the difference whether or not there is a difference or whether that's your perception. So if you would give us a sample of Portuguese and I could listen to it, back to back to you speaking English. Yeah. Your voice sounds very warm to me. I think maybe you might have some struggle getting volume with your voice
@ZikaLunar12
Lunar B
@ZikaLunar12 · 1:40

@SpeakingSchool

I already tried to find some stuff on other internet, but you don't see a lot of things about this. And I was trying to change my voice in English. I want to have my voice in voice in English. And okay. You asked me to give a little example of my voice in Portuguese. Okay. Send me a voice in Portugal. That's it. This is my voice in Portuguese. If you can see the difference between my voice in English and my voicing in Portuguese
@DanDan2020
Dan Carbajal
@DanDan2020 · 1:33
I definitely need help, and I know I definitely have. I'm 39 years old now, and it's just held me back from achieving so much. And if I can get some type of help, counseling, or advice, I appreciate it. So I'm trying hard here. I'm trying my best here. I look forward. Thank you
@HeMan493
Richard keys
@HeMan493 · 2:03
Never really good enough to be that quality voice that would really help the podcast become a big success. So I've always been looking forward to improve and to grow as a host and also as a speaker, being that I'm also going to be doing YouTube videos
@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 3:12

@brooks

It sounds a little vocal cords sound like there's maybe a little edema in there. To me, rock and roll singers have a constant sort of abuse to the voice unless they absolutely know what they're doing. So it becomes habitual. The sound of their voice becomes kind of a rough sound, which is true to the form that in some circles is considered vocal abuse. But you like the sound of the voice, and you like how he can quote, throw his voice
@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 3:43

@zukalunar12. Response and suggestions !

Hello, Lunar. It's Allie. I've just listened to your voice in Portuguese. Sorry for the delay, but I hope you've been listening to further swells in the speaking school because first of all, all, your voice in Portuguese to me, sounds very similar to your voice in English. So there you go. Your perception of your voice in one language versus the other doesn't really match my perception as a listener
@Brooks
Brooks VB
@Brooks · 2:31

@SpeakingSchool can raspiness or roughness be achieved without damage?

But I've definitely been trying the little practice drill you mentioned in one of the lessons to act like you have a bunch of gum in your mouth and just really exaggerate it. And I've been trying to remind myself to do that if I feel like I'm not opening my mouth enough. So yes, I appreciate you coming back
@SpeakingSchool
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 2:28

@DanDan2020, @Herman493 welcome ! Here are some thoughts

Okay. So I just listened to Dan, Dan, and Herman, and I want to talk to address both of your questions in this one. Swell. First of all, so glad you both have joined in. And Dandan, I would say, I don't know how to get your real name, so I apologize. I'm using your username, but I would say you're in the right place
@MelliniMonique

Deep round full tones with a little rasp win for me.

I set it up and I think I used Prince call me in the background and I said, hey, I'm not home, but leave a message and I'll call you when I get back. And my mother expressly asked me to change that recording. But I love everything about voice and what I've noticed most recently, specifically since May of last year, and I don't think it's any coincidence with the lockdowns and the shutdowns and the emotional stress and tumultuous in society at large
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@Kamahana
Kamahana Kealoha
@Kamahana · 4:38
If I speak for a while, I think it's natural. How does your jaw feel? Your tongue? Your chest? Well, my jaw feels fine. My chest feels fine. My tongue feels too big for my mouth, I swear, sometimes. So it seems like I have to be more careful with my tongue as time goes on as I speak for a while, my shoulders and my neck seem to get tighter as time goes on
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