You're not taking full advantage of the sounds that we rely on to gain clarity in our speech. Those plosive sounds, which would be the lips closing, building up air pressure behind them and then opening for the Bah sounds, the T and D that have to do with what they're called other dental and tongue sort of come together again, build up pressure and pop. So we need to be opening our mouth when we're speaking
Susan Vollenweider
@EssephVee · 0:40
If I'm honest, I'm. But I suppose I need to figure out something between jaw click and mumble. There's a sweet spot in there, and I hope I can find it. Thank you. Bye
Thank you Ali. This was a great lesson. I do believe that not opening my mouth widely enough is part of my problem, part of why I often mumble or kind of not speak clearly. So I will try your exercises, other chewing exercise as well as kind of looking in the mirror when speaking and consciously trying to open my mouth wider when I speak and let's see how that goes. Thank you for the lesson
Talk 101
@SpeakingSchool · 1:25
You can do ooey as well to just kind of wake up your lips. These are a lot of exercises that we give folks after they've had strokes, and they have some paresis in their facial musculature. So we would do in the mirror OOH e and really exaggerated e with a wide smile that also would wake up your articulators. That trail is terrific as well. But do be careful if you're hearing that click a lot. You don't want to aggravate that joint