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Too softly spoken

  • 13-12-2015 9:47am
    #1
    LegacyUser
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    Loud pubs and clubs aren't my ideal scence but to be sociable I go for drinks after work on Fridays and also sometimes with my housemates.

    I'm a pretty softly spoken guy, nothing wrong with that. It's not an issue day to day like I can give presentations in front of 30 people in a room. But on nights out I struggle like when ordering a drink and the DJ is blaring music and most always I struggle to get heard.

    I was in the Mercantile one night, that's a place in Dublin. Around the table we were chatting but if someone across the table asked me something I couldn't get my reply heard. They'd ask me to repeat and I'd get frustrated with myself. They were all well able to talk loud, I was the only one with this issue. The next day my voice was hoarse. I was trying so hard but it just wasn't working.

    I attended a few west end shows in London and was amazed how the actors and actresses even while sobbing could get their voice to hit the back wall without microphones.

    I'm not alooking to become Pavorotti here here but I'd like to talk to my friends and actually have the bar staff understand me.

    It's not a serious PI but does anyone overcome this?


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  • #2
    Rubberchikken
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    have no actual experience of it but i know of people who attend drama/voice classes to learn how to project their voice. some classes would be just a day long (maybe a saturday) and might be worth considering.
    it's hard enough to hear in a noisy environment and it's even worse to spend the night effectively shouting to be heard and paying the price next day.
    hope this helps. good luck


  • #3
    Shrap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Interesting problem OP! If it's any help to you, I did some singing back in my teens and my teacher had to train me to project my voice out of my mouth rather than through my nose :rolleyes: A lot of people speak/sing through their nasal regions without knowing it and it makes them less easy to hear and muffles the vowel sounds, big time.

    There's loads of online advice about voice projection, but all I can give you is to try speaking as if your words are spoken outside your mouth, not inside.


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