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Voice Endurance
Submitted by PepeGSay on Thu, 07/28/2005 - 19:16.
I am going to start a job which will require a lot of dictation. Can someone give me some tips or links to building my endurance and maintaining voice quality throughout the day. I use voice recognition due to RSI, I don't want to end up mute as well. |
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Here's some
Here's some advice
http://www.out-loud.com/be_a_slack-jaw__advice_for_the_voice.html
Judy
I agree
Here's some advice
http://www.out-loud.com/be_a_slack-jaw__advice_for_the_voice.html
Read what is said there and follow it.
I drink a LOT of water and zero sodas or anything else with caffeine in it.
From what I've read, one should drink 1/2 their body weight in ounces of water daily. Thus a 100 pound person should drink 50 ounces of water daily. The doctor that told of this also suggested 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt per 32 ounces of water be consumed throughout the day. (Ref Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D. at http://www.watercure.com)
I've found this very helpful not only in talking but in general health issues as well.
Chew up a 1/2 stick of gum
Chew up a 1/2 stick of gum and keep under your tongue. Otherwise, drink lots of water.
Martin
Voice Endurance
As a person with RSI, I tried to follow all the advice given in previous posts on this topic. However, this year I lost my voice totally for 6 weeks (possibly triggered by allergic response to chemicals).
I was sent to Ear Nose & Throat specialist at speech clinic (in UK), who stuck camera down my throat to examine and film my vocal cords in action. Seems I was born with some sort of defect which meant they didn't vibrate properly, and I was getting hoarsness/no speech because I was forcing them. Also, I was getting so stressed from the worry of not being able to work since I couldn't type, that the stress was making the problem worse.
More useful to others who don't have this defect perhaps, is that I have been taught another way of speaking by a speech therapist, for when I feel asthmatic and that I don't have enough power in my voice for day-long dictation.
I'm sure a professional speech therapist could explain better and I don't want to give anybody wrong advice so it might be worth anyone suffering from this problem of not enough power in their voice/hoarseness to consider going to a speech therapist, but anyway, the technique I've been taught entails using the stomach muscles like a bellows and speaking on the out-breath whilst pulling muscles in gently, so that there is always enough air available, rather than breathing in air from the chest.
This technique (and lots of practice at speaking whilst using stomach muscles) has helped me a lot in getting my voice back.