Improve Your Voice - Daily Articulation Exercises

hi and welcome to my video on daily exercises for better articulation my name is darren and i'm the founder of free and easy speech comm these five exercises that you can practice daily are designed to work the articulator x' and the muscles of your mouth so over a period of time you can brighten and tighten up those muscles and make things sound sharper and clearer when you speak not only are they great for working and building on those muscles but they're also really good as a warmup so if you were going into a voiceover studio if you're in a play you need to warm up your voice these ones can be added into your routine to help sharpen up the articulation okay so the first one is so easy you do it all the time yourself its yawning that's right I want you to yawn I mean you don't have to pull a stupid face when you do it but it helps when you take in the air with a yawn you open up all the spaces from your lips right down to your diaphragm and because you're letting in so much air if things have to create space and this is exercising loads of muscles on the way down and just enjoy it whether it comes naturally or you have to fake it it doesn't matter it's really good exercise 10 of those to start your warmups and as time goes on you might want to start doing more maybe 15 do 10 for the first 10 days and then do 15 for the next 15 days and 20 for the 20 days after that and see how you feel and because you'll be doing these exercises daily you'll start to notice a difference and you might want to do more because you might see the benefits and just want to get that much better okay number two is going to be lip trills now singers use this quite a lot if anyone has done any singing out there or actors that have done voice work or had to do warm-ups for their shows will have done these basically it's using air to vibrate your lips like this now you can choose one tone and stay on there or you can go up and down the scale of notes you don't it's not a singing exercise for us as such but it's handy if you do want to move up and down through notes because it also warms up other parts which when you're speaking will be useful so you don't want your lips to be too tight and you don't have to be too loose you want to find a balance in the middle and you want to hear the sound coming through as well so you're engaging your vocal folds and the noise is coming through it's not just air not just you hear the difference if you find it difficult to do this on its own you can put your fingers and and hold the soft part of your cheeks up like that which will help just to keep the lips in the right position so you can make the sound and after doing it for a while you can then take your hands away and do the same thing and as you progress I want you to do this exercise for longer and longer in one breath so if you take a breath as full as you can count yourself doing that for 20 seconds to begin with if you can do 20 seconds then go to 30 seconds if you can do 30 seconds easy why not try for a minute and if you can get a minute why not try for two minutes the idea is is wherever you are at the moment wherever you're starting out from do it as long as you can time yourself and then the next day try and do a few seconds longer or a little bit longer and again in a few weeks you'll be able to keep your breath for that much longer and the lips will be doing lots of work and the muscles will start to work for you in a better way again this is also very good for a warm-up if you're going to be doing voiceover work or on the stage the next exercise is going to be tone trills and this is really similar to the lip trills we just did but just with your tongue so rather than using your lips to you can use your tongue I make that sound this is really difficult for some people a lot of people don't use their tongue in a rhotic way and and have a curl up my accent I'm from London so I generally don't curl my arse and I found this difficult to begin with so with a bit of practice you'll get there it's really good at warming up another muscle and the tongue is such a large muscle that goes right the way down here your tongue plays such an important part of forming words so these tongue trills are going to help with that here's how it should go you might find after the first few times of doing these exercises that you have find a little bit of aching in your mouth or at the bottom of your tongue that's good it means it's working it means it's exercising no pain no gain okay for the next two exercises that I'm gonna need the board these next two exercises are almost like tongue twisters it will promote the idea of getting your muscles to learn to think faster first it'll be a brain and then the mouth and tongue and lips will catch up they're very simple words but when put together they can become slightly difficult to say bodega bodega board or poor dog or boo doo goo poo Doo goo BVG PDG payday gay payday gay that is all one round okay so bad Nagar Palika border gotta go boo goo goo poo Doo goo b dep dep take a pedi gay that's a good speak to start off with I know these so it's a little bit easier for me so you want to try and make them sound as clear as possible as well as building up the speed of how fast you can say them try and do as many as you can on one breath so to breathe in but I got particle board Ogopogo buku buku PDQ PD he better get better get but I got particle board Oporto pretty good pretty good Betty keep it he better get better get but I gotta got board Oporto Paducah pretty good to keep it you better get better get better body got particle portico Paducah pretty good way to keep it up you better get maybe here what happens is quite often people think too much about how they're breathing I want you to concentrate more on what you're reading and getting that correct and forget about the breathing is what'll happen is the breathing will come what's more important is that you get these right there's a lot of training videos out there for breathing often I find that when people start thinking about the breathing it they get too conscious about what they're doing so I want used for now to concentrate on these and if you do want to have some breathing exercises there's a video below that has those on there for you once you are able to say these faster and you are able to say more on a single breath you'll discover that your articulation will naturally start to become better in general everyday life speech and as I said before these are great as a warm-up just before you need to speak the next exercise is very similar to this it's another set of words but this time are using different consonant sounds so we have Martin ala valve aza more nor law law voice or moon lulululu zu me Neely vvz main a leave a base a I find these ones very difficult you might find this easier Manilal a bizarre monologue of also a moon Eleuthera meaningly BBC many live every day here we go Manilow lovers a monologue for summoner loopers immediately the busy male everything my love was a model office Amelia's email is a so again these ones are gonna help tying up as articulated and within a few weeks you're going to notice that you can do them much easier and better and all these exercises done daily are really gonna help you become a better speaker whether it's just in your social life or for work if you visit my website at wwlp.com there's a free print out of these exercises and others that you can look at to help remind yourself of what you need to do so if you want to see more subscribe or visit my website WWE and easy speech calm there's a link below keep practicing keep speaking and until next time you [Music]

Channel: Improve Your Voice

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Length: 8min 22sec (502 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 20 2017

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