Improve Your Voice - Daily Articulation Exercises

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Hi and welcome to my video on daily exercises for better articulation.

My name's Darren, and I'm the founder of free and easy speech.com.

These five exercises that you can practice daily.

I designed to work the articulators 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,

it's 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 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 in 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.

Cause you might see the benefits and just wanting to get that much better. Okay.

Number two is going to be lip trills. Now singers use this quite a lot.

Anyone who's done any singing out there or actors that have done, um,

voice work or had to do warmups 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 that. Or you can, uh,

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,

cause it also warms up other parts, which when you're speaking, um,

will be useful. So