Set Your Voice Free: How to Get the Singing or Speaking Voice You Want

This chapter explains how to find and use your own voice, because while anyone can develop this skill, the result must be uniquely you. As an inspirational person, you must speak with a unique voice shaped by the purposes that move you, the particular challenges facing your organization and world, and your own style of communication.

The most frequent fault in the using of the voice is throat-contraction. It is at the root of nearly all speech troubles (as distinct from speech errors) of which the most general are inadequate breath, hard tone, thin quality, sore throat and loss of voice. Inadequate breath—because the air has to squeeze its way through; hard tone—because the voi