Voice & Diction
Voice & Diction
1. There are four elements of voice production:
A. Respiration
B. Phonation
C. Resonation
D. Articulation
Voice & Diction
1. ____________
Respiration
Air is breathed in and out of the _____.

_____
lungs

Breathing action caused by changing
____________
the
_________________________
capacity
of the chest cavity
ribs
1. In and out of _____
2. Up and down of ___________
diaphragm
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2. ____________
Phonation
larynx or voice box, rests on top of the wind
 The ______
pipe or trachea
_______ and serves as a _____
valve into the
breathing mechanism.
vocal folds
The _____
glotis and __________:



The folds can be brought together by muscular
________________
movement
air
to close the glotis
____ and thus stop the passage of ___.
Breath/air _______
vibrates the partly closed folds and sets up
___________.
sound waves
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3. ____________
Resonation
 The _____,
nose ________
pharynx (throat) and ______
sinus

cavities are resonators.
The resonators produce the tone
____.
Articulation
4. ____________
 Consonant
__________ sounds are made.

The articulators are: Lips, teeth, tongue,
palate and jaw

There is a tendency to drop endings of words:
t, g, ng, s, th
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
Parts of the body involved in voice production
A. Diaphragm
__________ - breathing muscle
B. ______
Lungs - 2 air sacs
C. ________
Trachea - wind pipe
D. Larynx
______ - voice box
E. Tongue
_______ - articulator
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
Parts of the body involved in voice production
F. Teeth
_____ - articulator
G. ______
Palate - hard and soft
H. ____________
Nasal Cavity - resonator
I. ________
Pharynx - (throat) resonator
J. ___________
Esophagus
Four Phases in Voice Improvement
1. ___________:
Audibility
the ability to be _____.
heard
Works along with ____________
diaphragmatic breathing.
tone of your
Pleasant quality the quality and ____
2. _____________:
words (nonvoice speak louder than the _____.
verbal aspect)
Flexibility / ___________:
Vocal Variety we better enjoy
3. __________
pitch
listening to those who have a variety in ____,
rate
___, force
____.
Four Phases in voice Improvement
4. Intelligibility
_________: how well you can be
_________.
understood



Articulation – speaking clearly!!!!!
Pronunciation – look up a word if you don’t know
how to pronounce it.
Dialect Regions:
a. Eastern
b. Southern
c. Midwest