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SYSK Choice: How to Optimize Your Speaking Voice & How Animals Affect You

Something You Should Know

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Is Your Vocal Fold Protecting You?

If a plane came crashing in to the studio then i'm in right now, three things would happen. We'd blink, our heart rate would go up, and we'd hold our breath. And so when we're nervous, the vocal folds protect us. They're actually trying to protect us, but it comes out badly in our voice. The third thing that i would have them do is modulate their pitch. But a lot of people don't use a big pitch inflection. For the speaker, it's so much easier to use good pitch inflected.

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