Behind the Voice Issues

1. Behind the Voice Issues Do you need help to hit the correct notes? Do you have difficulty hearing your voice when you speak? And, despite your best efforts to care for your voice, does it not appear to improve? Hearing impairment may cause these voice difficulties. Keep in mind that hearing relies on an active brain-to-ear connection. Harmonising and singing appropriately to a musical composition would be extremely difficult if your ear-brain connections could not concentrate, perceive, process, and grasp crucial auditory information, such as the song's melody or pitch. Dr. Alfred Tomatis, a French ENT, says that the voice can only imitate what the ear can hear. For example, learning to sing a song would be difficult if you couldn't hear the music. Chronic ear infections, brain diseases such as Auditory Processing Disorder (APD), and even emotional trauma can all impede our ability to listen, our voice, and, ultimately, our desire to talk, sing, or express ourselves. A voice that is overly husky, gruff, or low is already a problem. However, some people may need help to sing or speak well because they lack adequate self-listening skills. Self-listening involves assessing and manipulating the accuracy, intensity, and quality of one's voice as a sound source. This is also why some people are unaware that they are already off-key (i.e., making sharps and flats), unable to keep up with the changing rhythm (i.e., going from slow to upbeat), or unable to modulate speech segments for emphasis. Nonetheless, Dr. Tomatis was playing music for vocalists at the time, which gave rise to the idea that one might change one's voice and speaking by influencing how one heard. Get tomatis sound therapy now!