When seeking to develop your speaking skills it is good to keep in mind how a clear, pleasent voice is created.
It all begins with the air that your lungs, acting like a bellows, push up through your windpipe into your larnyx or voice box.
Sounds begin to be formed as the air flows into the larnyx and hit the vocal cords -- two tiny folds of muscle on either sides of the larnyx. In your normal breathing the air flows over these folds without making a sound. But when you speak muscles tighten these folds causing them to vibrate creating sounds.
As you continue to tighten these folds the cords vibrate even more creating higher toned sounds and as you relax these cords the tone deepens.
The sound wave created in the larnyx continue on through your throat it enters the upper throat or pharnyx and then the your mouth and nasal cavity
There the miracle of speech is completed as the basic tones are refined and reinforced and then turned into understandable words by your tongue, jaw, teeth, and lips which break up the sound words to create speech.
So if you want to protect and develop a clear, plesant voice it is essential that you protect these powerful yet delicate parts of your throat and mouth by avoiding smoking and excessive consumption of alcohol and practice good oral hygiene.
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