063 - Vocal Exercises

I want to improve my presentation skills, starting with my voice. I'm going to start with the exercises in the links below. Let's hear I sound after a week. I hope you join me, but please start gently and do not strain yourself. 1. NPR: Finding Your Voice ( https://www.npr.org/transcripts/803841798 ) 2. Cheryl Porter: 10 Minute Daily VOCAL WORKOUT! Vocal Exercise ( https://youtu.be/1XHXezdnL0A ) PRODUCTION NOTES Recording Mic: Zoom LMF-2 Lavalier mic Recording device : Zoom F2 32 bit float Field Recorder Recording location: Dining table, seated, no pillow-fort. Recording format: WAV (32 bit float mono) Editing app (and EQ) : Adobe Audition Sound Treatment: Auphonic Productions at Auphonic.com Auphonic.com settings [to output as a 16bit mono WAV file]: Adaptive Leveler (on), Loudness Normalization (Loudness Target -19 LUFS ), Filtering (on), Noise and Hum Reduction (Reduction Amount: Auto), Sample rate: 44.1kHz I uploaded the resulting WAV file to Anchor.fm to host the file and added the music from their free music stock. Episode art: Canva Anchor automatically converts the WAV file into a 128kbps, stereo, .m4a file