Using Your Voice Effectively: Vocal Science

Nearly everyone who hears their voice on a recording isn't happy with the way they sound. Most professionals would love to improve their voice, but aren't sure voice coaching is worth the time. Once they start voice coaching, however, they usually find just a few lessons helps them learn the basics of their most powerful instrument - their voice.

Clayton Sinclair, DipArt/DipAV, Executive Speech Coach and Presentation Coach, explains the anatomy and science of the human vocal instrument.

Vocal Science and Getting a Better Speaking Voice - Executive Voice Coaching and Voice Training

Vocal anatomy: Your voice is actually considered a wind instrument, meaning breathing counts for how your voice sounds. No matter what pitch or syncopation you're trying to use to make a point or to be heard more clearly, if you're not breathing properly, your voice will sound shallow or breathy, high pitched or wobbly. The wrong sound or tone means others may be less prone to listen to you or to respect what you're trying to say.

Vocal Coaching and Executive Speech Training

So when I coach people on using their voice effectively during my executive speech training sessions, breathing and vocal science - your vocal anatomy - is one of the first lessons we go through. We cover all aspects of the voice and vocal chambers so you can understand HOW to project your voice more powerfully and succinctly, and we build on that in future voice lessons.

Clayton Sinclair presenting at TRAIN YOUR BRAIN sessions in Gardenvale, Victoria.

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St Stephens Anglican Church, Gardenvale is a church very much connected to its community with its vegie patch and Martin street OP shop in Brighton, Victoria (Australia).

Vicar Paul Carr, with St Stephens Anglican Church, is a young, energetic priest who actively seeks new ways to inspire, involve and add value to the community through its many initiatives.

Last week, Vicar Paul Carr invited Voice and Performance Coach, Clayton Sinclair, to be guest speaker at the church’s Train Your Brain session.

Sinclair is well known in Australia for his work coaching doctors, surgeons, psychiatrists and other professionals to improve their vocal tone and clarity when speaking, or to lose an accent others find difficult to understand.

“Of all creatures, we humans are endowed with the most incredibly versatile vocal instrument," noted Clayton in his presentation for TRAIN YOUR BRAIN. "Yet for many of us, this amazing instrument will remain as thin, powerless and unrealised as an electric guitar that has never been plugged in to its amplifier".

The TRAIN YOUR BRAIN attendees were soon immersed in Clayton's presentation on using the voice more effectively, and participated in a mesmerising learning experience of how to use their voices more powerfully and effectively through better use of breath and placement of sound.

Presentations like this allow work teams, TedX speakers, musicians, singers and others how to the power and expressive potential of their voice - and how these vocal traits can be harnessed for more effective presentations and other forms of voice communication.