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Morgan Freeman has a deep, soothing, and authoritative voice that could turn anything into a reputed source. This voice has earned Freeman some of the wisest roles in film history and a plethora of documentary narration jobs, especially touching upon the mysterious and unknown. Doing a Morgan Freeman impression is not an easy task. Stick […]

Santa is possibly one of the most popular characters around the Christmas season in the Western world, with an astounding number of male individuals attempting to play a role in mass media and shopping malls. But not everyone gets Santa’s voice right. In this article, we’ll provide some useful tips on how to do a

The diaphragm is a respiratory muscle that contracts on inhalation. We can’t directly control how it behaves, but we can learn how it feels when activated. When you breathe in and out, your diaphragm, which is an involuntary muscle, will contract and expand. What does it mean to speak from your diaphragm? Speaking from the

The Indian accent is one of the most confusing English accents. Theoretically, the Indians follow British English, using the Oxford and Longman dictionaries. However, when talking about spoken English, the Indians use several words that belong to neither British nor American English. Moreover, they have different intonations and emphasize different consonant and vowel sounds, which

The voice can become a working tool if it is properly trained to achieve a certain goal. If you need to sound authoritative because you are performing a task where you must express knowledge of a subject, be confident or give orders to others, you can work your voice to project what you want. The

Canadian English is one of the biggest obscurities in the English language. While the Canadians follow the British spellings, their pronunciations are closer to the American English. But here’s the thing: both the Britishers and the Americans find Canadian a confusing accent. This speaks more about the difficulty of learning a Canadian accent than we

Scottish Accent is claimed to be the coolest accent in the UK. But mastering the accent is no easy task – you have to practice the typical Scottish Gaelic mouth movements and sounds. That said, you can sound like a true Scot in no time when you know exactly what to improve. Luckily, this article

Breathing is the vital element par excellence, which takes greater force in the case of the actor, who must be aware of his breathing at all times. The first thing an actor must do to breathe properly is to do it through the diaphragm. In this way, its voice will be functional to the acting

If you are about to give a presentation in front of your class or a large audience, it’s important to get better at reading out loud without losing breath or sounding like you’re running out of air. If you have problems with reading out loud because you have to pause every few seconds to catch

Learning to develop an English RP accent means you’ll have to move your mouth frequently. Speaking in the Received Pronunciation will require you to make a more dramatic movement with your lips and move your tongue sufficiently to produce sounds. RP (Received pronunciation) is a standard English accent common among well educated English speakers. The