voice

  • How To Get Your Kid To Speak At A Normal Human Volume 

    How To Get Your Kid To Speak At A Normal Human Volume 

    My five-year-old daughter Maggie seems to have two volume levels outside of our home: “off” and Fran Drescher at a loud bar. It took a while for her to become comfortable talking to people at all, so I’ve been letting it go when she suddenly has something important to say and starts speaking in ALL…


  • How To Lose An Accent, According To A Dialect Coach

    South African-born actor Charlize Theron (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) Actor and voice coach Amy Jo Jackson has consulted on productions of Venus in Fur, Henry IV, and the Broadway production of Kinky Boots. An experienced actor herself, whose credits include The Laramie Project, Into the Woods, Twelfth Night, and The Rocky Horror Show, Jackson teaches…


  • Train Your Voice With This Singing App

    Train Your Voice With This Singing App

    iOS: If you want to really kill it at karaoke, approximately hitting the notes won’t be good enough. A free app called Vanido can guide you through singing exercises, and show you in real time how well you’re hitting those notes.