Many students in my workshops asked if reading out loud would be a good exercise for them to improve their voices.
The answer is no. It’s not only won’t help you improve your voice properly, but also runs the possibility of hurting your voice.
The proper voice projection comes from proper breathing and full resonance in the body, not from reading out loud.
The “loud” is the wrong way of projection that you need to avoid. When you speak with a “loud” voice, you make the vocal cords doing unnecessary and wasteful effort. It can speed up the damage of your vocal cords and do you no good.
Even if you have articulation problem, you don’t need to improve your articulation by reading out loud. Reading in normal volume but move your articulators fully, that is, lips, teeth, tongue, will do. Though jaw is not considered an articulator, it plays a very important part in your articulation and you want to observe if your jaw is opening up on certain words.
Don’t be confused by the wrong information on the internet. It doesn’t make it right even when most people are talking about it.
Join me in our upcoming workshop and learn the tested and proven process for voice projection, articulation and many more.
