VOICE PRODUCTION

REPORTER: Ms. Janen Vea P. David

DIAPHRAGMATIC-ABDOMINAL
BREATHING
 Abdominal Wall

Represents the boundaries of

the abdominal cavity.
 Abdominal Cavity
large body cavity
in humans and many other
animals that contains many 
rgans.
Ribs swing up and Ribs swing own
increase volume and reduce
of chest volume of chest
(a) Inhaling (a) exhaling
( breathing in ) ( breathing out)
BENEFITS OF BREATH CONTROL

1. Your speech will show ease in voice

production.
2. You can increase the strength of your
voice so that you can be heard and
understood clearly over some distance.
3. You can adjust the amount of air inhaled to
the length of the phrases in your speech.
 EXERCISES

1. Take a deep breath; them sound ah in a full voice and

prolong it until the breath is exhausted. Repeat the exercise
daily until you get maximum duration (about 20 to 30
seconds) of the vowel sound on a single breath.

2. Take a deep breath; then count slowly in a full voice – “one,

two, three, etc.” – until the breath is exhausted. Continue the
exercise daily until you can
count aloud to fifteen or more without gasping at the end of
the count.
3. Take a deep breath; the expel the air from your lungs by
sounding “Hep!” with a good deal of force. Practice saying
“Hep!” as many times as you can on a single breath. Place
your hand on your abdomen to make sure that there is a
sharp inward contraction of the muscle wall synchronous
with the chest contraction on each “Hep!” that you sound
off. Keep the tones clear and forceful.
4. From the classroom platform, slowly repeat the question -
“What can you do to save energy?” – three times each on
separate breath. First, use small inhalation and control the
exhalation so that the words are loud enough to carry to
listeners on the middle row. Finally, imagine you are
speaking to some students two classrooms away. Do the
exercise five times.
 avoid tightening the throat and raising the pitch level as
you increase your strength of tone. Make each successive
question louder by taking a deeper inhalation than the time
before and, on exhalation, by pulling inward more firmly with
your abdominal muscles. Remember, do not shout! Get your
diaphragm to support the breath which will support your
voice.

5. The following passage is divided into short thought units by

means of diagonal bars. Take a deep breath and read the
selection aloud. Try to read as many words as possible on a
single breath. Use a normal conversational tempo; do not
accelerate your reading while each breath is gradually used
up. Keep a record of your daily scores until a maximum
breath duration of about 30 to 40 words is reached.
6. Study thoroughly the full meaning of the selection
in the preceding exercise. Mark with a double (//)
all the breathing spaces. Then memorize the
passage and practice delivering it, making full use
of diaphragmatic-abdominal breathing. Try
to keep your voice clear and forceful.
 PHONATION
The larynx, located behind
the Adam’s apple in the neck,
catches the stream of exhaled
breath and, by means of tiny
vocal folds, transforms it into
vocal sound.
 Larynx

the sound production room.

Phonation originates