0577 – How To Prepare Your voice For Video-Calls

2022.07.31– 0577 – How To Prepare Your voice For Video-Calls

How Your Schedule Affects Your Video-Call Voice

Video-calls are perhaps more likely for those working from home, but try not to roll out of bed and go straight to your laptop and sit down and talk! Think what you used to do before our lazy lockdowns: busily getting ready, moving around, up and down the stairs, twisting into the car seat or running for the bus… and we’d be chatting along with all of that, to the kids, the person on the bus, talking back at the radio shock-jock, thanking someone in a shop, greeting a colleague…

Yep, we generally had movement in our body and breath.

And when at the laptop, it doesn’t necessarily feel like work: you’re just sitting there and people just appear in front of you. But don’t be misled. You can still be doing a lot of talking and getting stressed.

So, start your WFH day with some ‘muscle and vocal’ exercises, and take a 10-minute break every hour (or have meetings of 45 minutes with a break in between).

At the start of the day:

·        Maybe a brisk walk, dancing to your favourite playlist or simply marching on the spot

·        Warming up your voice with hums and trills, swoops and glides.

·        Stretch your tongue.

Between calls:

·        Say nothing! Rest and relax your throat muscles to reduce vocal cord swelling. 

·        Reduce neck pain, muscle tension in your back and shoulders after sitting still for so long. Move around, and carefully try a few head rolls, shoulder scrunches, turns and bends.

·        Take the opportunity to top up with water: your body and your bottle. After all you should always be sipping to keep your folds slippery, hydrated and healthy.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.