Voice Synergy News
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Your Christmas presence
How to keep your voice hydrated! The Christmas season is upon us and throughout the festivities, your voice will be called on again and again to perform. But in between the late nights, social office parties and maybe slightly over-doing the sparkling cocktails, more-ish mulled wine or Christmassy craft beers, work must go on. And…
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Accent and your interview
One of the last bastions of prejudice that is still going unchallenged. You go into the interview room and as soon as you open your mouth and start speaking, the interviewer’s expression changes. You think you are being judged about your suitability for the role within seconds of beginning to speak. Accent and your interview…
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Can I change my voice?
Most of us aren’t happy with some aspect of ourselves, but given a bit of effort, many things can be changed. We can get fitter by increasing our time spent exercising, we can get a better job and earn more money by enrolling for extra skills training, we can change the way we look by…
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What is “polish”?
You attend an interview and feedback might include: “We are looking for someone more polished”. The Oxford English Dictionary defines polish as follows: “Refinement, culture: elegance of manner. The glossy polish that the best English boarding schools can sometimes provide.” Interestingly, the action of polishing is described as, “glossiness of surface produced by friction or…
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Voice Coaching and Accent Reduction in Bath
This month Voice Synergy is celebrating its move to Bath! This exciting relocation means that Voice Synergy will not only continue to provide outstanding voice and accent coaching to corporate and private clients in Bristol, but can now easily work with Bath-based professionals too. What can you expect from Voice Synergy in Bath? You will…
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Struggling with your English accent?
During a visit to France a few years back, we attended a Medieval banquet and tournament, organised and hosted by the Vendeens. As we filed through to the banqueting hall, we were given blue cardboard crowns and shown to our seats at a large scrubbed table laid with tin plates and pewter mugs filled to…
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The conference call – use your voice effectively
How can you lead a conference call effectively? Why do people stay silent during a conference call? Why do some people talk too much, or dominate, during a conference call? Some clients of Voice Synergy have recently been asking how to get the best out of a…
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World Voice Day – Tuesday 16 April 2019 – “Be kind with your voice”
World Voice Day is annual event, designed to raise awareness of the importance of the human voice and to be alert to voice problems. The power of your voice comes from the air you inhale. The diaphragm drops and the air pours into your lungs; this air can be used to activate your voice in…
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Perfecting new skills
How can we speak more clearly? How quickly can you pick up a new skill? Have you ever tried juggling? Juggling demands a series of highly complex coordinated muscle movements to be carried out within a short space of time. A new skill, like speaking more clearly, takes three important stages to master. A new…
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Why Can’t Our Children Talk?
A recent news feature on BBC Radio 4, ‘Why Can’t Our Children Talk?’ highlighted the importance of children making conversation from a very early age to help with their speech development. Specialists say that unless children are engaged in talking from infancy, they will not learn to speak properly and will never catch up on…