28 Jan 2026 · 1 min
A short podcast excerpt (instructional vocal-coaching) advising on voice-warmup techniques to avoid overpushing air and throat strain. The speaker emphasizes keeping the larynx and throat open and relaxed, feeling resonance (vocal folds vibrating/phonation), and practicing sound changes (e.g., shifting a SH into a J) and lip trills.
Most people push a lot, push too much air over the vocal folds, and they end up straining the throat. The throat becomes narrow. So you mentioned the feeling of when you drink coffee, the feeling of narrowness in the throat. So that's a somatic sensation that if we get perhaps nervous before we speak. So, by warming the voice up and using the correct muscles to do that, is going to keep the larynx and the throat really nice and open and. And relax. Now to feel the resonance, which is basically the vocal folds moving together. They're connecting together very quickly, and that's causing the vibration, or the phonation, if you like. We're going to change that SH into a J. So we're going to go from a SH to a.
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