Is Your Voice Too High?
Place your fingers on your face per the diagram.
- Middle finger
- Little finger
- Thumb
- Rest other two fingers on your cheeks.
- Hum, "Happy Birthday to you."
- Where do you feel the buzz?
If it's in or around your nose, you may sound nasal and high pitched, hum lower and try to move the buzz to your cheeks or mouth. Next try to speak there.
Sing along with the radio in a lower range and you can easily move your voice down.
CAUTION: If it hurts when you sing in a lower range, stop it; you can harm your vocal cords. No pain? You're OK!
Want a better, richer voice?
Try these!
- Yawn and stretch and rotate your mouth.
- Drop you head onto you chest and let it hang. That will remove some tension, and you will sound less constricted.
- Open your mouth wide as you say MAY, ME, MY, MO, MOO. Enunciate each vowel. Hold each sound and feel it resonate in your throat. Yawn as you feel the need.
- Consciously speak lower and slower throughout the day. Soon it will be a natural way to speak. Put a sign on your desk that says LOWER AND SLOWER to remind you.
- Ask close friends to make a gesture pointing down to remind you to lower your voice when you “go high.”
Respect-Able™ women have lovely modulated voices.
