Recently several patients were found to have wrong way of pronunciation during their review, I am reposting one of them for your common learning! Get your voice back to health soon! Although patients with vocal cord nodules and polyps have been operated to remove organic lesions, their voices still cannot be restored to normal, which shows that pathological vocalization can lead to dysmotility of laryngeal muscles and incomplete closure of the vocal chambers, while shouting can lead to organic lesions of the vocal cords, which is a causal relationship. The effect of removing organic lesions without correcting functional lesions is inevitably poor or unsustainable. Therefore, voice training has become one of the main means to treat functional laryngeal disease. I. Breathing techniques: abdominal breathing, fast inhalation and slow exhalation, inhalation but not full abdominal breathing, is a deep breathing using the contraction of abdominal muscles and pressure. Abdominal muscles contraction, increase abdominal pressure, abdominal pressure so that the diaphragm pushed upward, increasing the pressure in the chest cavity, so that the air in the lungs exhaled powerful. The method of training the inspiratory muscle groups: 1, the method of holding the breath The practice is to take a large breath first, after inhaling enough air, hold the breath, do not exhale, the longer you hold the breath the better. Slowly you can exercise the ability to hold your breath for a long time, that is, the ability to fix the thorax. 2, the method of counting The practice is to take a large breath, after taking a full breath, the thorax fixed; then with a very light and thin, only they can hear the voice count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 …… until you can no longer count; then, take a breath again, so repeated training. This will count more and more numbers, and the time will be longer. It is best to be able to count to more than 50 in one breath. 3. lying position, you can put a book on the small abdomen, inhale when the stomach bulge, for a while; exhale when the abdomen, for a while The following two audible exhalation training, to lay the foundation for our voice control. (1) “Popping lips” exercise: lips closed, that is, with the breath impact on the lips, so that it makes a “toot” sound, be sure to make the lips tremble, but also to make the lips sound loud. The “lip popping” exercise should be experienced as follows: 1) Use the feeling of slow contraction of the small abdominal muscles to compress the breath to impact the lips; 2) Make the breath flow evenly from the beginning to the end, not more air at one time, less air at another time, evenness is the most crucial; 3) Experience your “lip popping” exercise. exercise, how long you can play with one breath, this is also the key exercise to control the breath. In addition, “lip popping” can also be used as a vocal massage exercise to help your tired voice recover as soon as possible. (2) “Humming” exercise: It refers to the nasal resonance, which prepares for the higher sound in the future, and bridges the upper and lower bass. With “humming”, our voice will have a glow. The “humming” exercise is a closed-mouth humming, when the mouth is closed, we should feel a small mouthful of water in the mouth, the nasal cavity is erected, and then inhale deeply and hum. Again, the breath must be even and dynamic. Nasal resonance, not nasal resonance, refers to resonance through the sinuses, nasal cavity and palate sinuses, while nasal resonance is to send the sound directly to the nose. Remember that when “humming”, the sound is emitted at the top of the nasal cavity, at the center of the eyebrow, and you can practice with a single extended tone every day until the eyebrow vibrates. When we do these exercises, we can carry out simple vocal exercises. Second, vocal techniques: the use of resonance, so that the larynx naturally put down the throat resonance cavity to adjust to a thick head of fine, this resonance position, the sound has an expanded role. Therefore, before vocalizing, open the mouth wide, so that the back of the neck is erected, so that the epiglottis cartilage stands up, the tongue body down and up, so that the soft palate and the uvula put down. A straight tube is formed. After the sound emanates from the vocal cords, it rushes upward directly to the top of the nasopharynx and returns at the top of the head. This sound is very loud, thick and metallic. This is the “cephalic vocal method”. To check whether this method is applied correctly, just feel the back of the head and the top of the head for vibrations when you speak. The first exercise: the vowel u, as a vocal resonance. U (u) sound can effectively put down the throat, to the sound of the upper and lower smoothly laid the foundation, and is the u vowel is more round, easy to focus, is irreplaceable by other vowels. That’s why we call it a model tone, and all other vowels should try to sound like the u vowel, so that your voice will be unified and rounded. When we practice the u sound, we should pay special attention to: (1) not to press the larynx, so that the larynx drops naturally, you can breathe in deeply to experience the larynx dropping; (2) the chin and tongue root should be relaxed, so that the oropharyngeal cavity is not stiff; (3) when pronouncing the u sound, you should feel that the nasal cavity, mouth and chest cavity are connected, like a smooth pipe. A correct u vowel can feel the resonant vibration of both the head and the chest cavity. We usually use a single sound to find the feeling I mentioned above. With the foundation of u vowel, we can experience the breath of singing and realize that vocalization does not depend on the throat alone (as people think), it is the organic combination of the head cavity (treble), pharyngeal cavity (alto) and chest cavity (bass) to produce a smooth, round, penetrating and lasting sound. Before speaking, you must take a full breath, and then smoothly use your breath to speak slowly. Consciously lower your head forward, lower your jaw inward, relax your neck muscles, and straighten the back of your neck naturally so that your throat and nasopharyngeal resonance cavity form a straight line. The second exercise: “cannon” sound Before practicing “cannon”, we need to do a little preparation, that is, the breath should be deep, the mouth should be empty, as if containing a ball, the nasal cavity should be open, the chest cavity and head cavity should feel connected up and down. When these have been prepared, we can vocalize, the power of vocalization must be in the small abdominal rebound force, so that the resonance of the oral cavity to get the outbreak. You can press your hand on your belly, and feel the starting point of the sound in your belly, when the belly is forceful, the sound from the belly quickly hit the brow and pop out. The third exercise: “m” sound “m” mi sound itself is flat, is the sound of the upper and lower teeth together. To give it some resonance space, we use “m i (m) + (applause)”, followed by the “applause” sound, which rounds the mouth and concentrates the sound. The sound “m i (m) + (phew)” must be pronounced within 1 second at the beginning of practice, with the same breath and resonance as above. When you have mastered it, you can lengthen each sound, because the “m” sound has more nasal resonance, so the nasal cavity should be erected and actively opened to make it resonate in the nasal cavity. When this single sound is pronounced correctly, you can add the word “m ao (cap)” and alternate it with “(m i+ 吁) + 帽”. The word “cap” itself is pronounced the same as “cannon”, so the continuous training of the accent is the foundation for more sound changes in the future. In other words, no matter what the sound is, the breath foundation of our pronunciation cannot be changed, and with this foundation, our voice will have staying power. Through a period of practice of single and double sounds, the breath of the voice has been further improved, and then we can do some more complex word sound training. The fourth exercise: the tongue twister can make the previous vocal exercises, from the unnatural state, and gradually restore the natural process, and in keeping with the unique flavor of the language of drama, the bold use of tongue twisters, so that the voice strengthens the ability to stretch, mastering the ability to control the speed of language. Here is a recommended tongue twister: “Eight hundred standard-bearers run to the north slope, artillery standard-bearers run side by side, artillery fears to touch the standard-bearers, standard-bearers fear to touch the artillery guns.” This tongue twister is a good breath training material. After memorizing it, you can concentrate on the use of breath for each sound: each word has to be “blasted” out with the support of breath. In other words, each word should be “blown out” with the support of breath, that is, with the action of the belly, with elasticity. The use of breath is from natural to unnatural, and then back to natural, which is a process of voice and breath progress. After the previous fast and slow voice training, the feeling of voice has basically formed. Final training: artistic tone training for recitation and speech Through a good poem and some touching stories, to stimulate the voice practitioner’s passion for artistic creation, through the fast, slow, strong, weak voice changes to make the voice practitioner’s sense of using breath more clear and accurate. The lyrical voice portrayal and passionate outbursts are the results of the quality of the voice practitioner’s previous training. As the training process, we have a basic understanding, of course, in the training, some people can use the breath better when practicing a single tone or a single word, but once they encounter multiple words, they find it difficult to issue the quality of a single tone. I can tell you the easiest way is to say a sentence in a row when you first start yawning, the voice is very high and the breath is very deep. “The natural fall of the larynx opens a channel for the voice, which makes the voice smooth and pleasant to the ear. When you have accumulated a certain amount of time, the fulcrum of your breath will definitely move down, especially when you speak loudly, you will definitely unconsciously use the strength of your abdominal muscles, and finally get an unexpectedly good voice.