How to Improve Your Voice Introduction

• 00:05 Wouldn't you like to know that every single time you open your mouth,
• 00:09 you sounded your best?
• 00:10 That's what this course is about, that's what I'm going to teach you how to do.
• 00:13 How to speak with confidence so that you sound better than you currently do,
• 00:19 and that you sound the best you can possibly sound.
• 00:23 Now, this isn't going to make you sound like a Hollywood star who does voice over
• 00:27 commercials and makes $10 billion a year.
• 00:31 But you can know how to sound your best every single time if you follow
• 00:36 the tips in this course, so we're going to hop right into it now.
• 00:40 Before we get too lost in the weeds here, let's talk about the range of voices and
• 00:44 what actually makes a good voice, a bad voice.
• 00:47 Now, I do want you to like your own voice and presumably you don't like it now or
• 00:51 you wouldn't be in this course.
• 00:54 But let's not forget, not everybody has to sound like
• 00:58 a generic FM talk radio host in order to be successful.
• 01:04 For example, Barbara Walters has had a tremendous career for
• 01:08 more than 50 years, and yet she has a lisp,
• 01:11 has a voice that not many people would consider as a good voice.
• 01:16 And she's had remarkable success in broadcast journalism.
• 01:20 Fran Drescher, The Nanny, that nasal twang hasn't seemed to hurt her career.
• 01:26 Rosie O'Donnell, that strong sort of outer borough New York accent, tough, and
• 01:33 yet, she's been wildly successful has made tens of millions of dollars, if not more.
• 01:40 Ben Stein, of Comedy Central Fame has that monotone, monotone, flat,
• 01:45 boring, monotone, that you may remember from Ferris Beller's Day Off.
• 01:50 You got a lot of different types of voices that, Rachael Ray,
• 01:53 not exactly the best voice in the world.
• 01:56 Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News channel,
• 01:59 one of the top rated hosts in all of prime time TV, not what most people
• 02:03 would consider a good voice sort of grating, scratchy, irritating.
• 02:09 So let's be a little bit careful before we write off our own voices and
• 02:14 somehow the thing that's holding his back or that's really hurting us
• 02:19 because there's a wide range of voices that the American public and
• 02:24 the public around the world considers quite acceptable.
• 02:28 And in some cases, interesting because it's a little different.
• 02:32 Now, I'm going to give you tips on how to sound your best, don't worry,
• 02:37 but I do want you to keep that in mind as we go through this process.

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