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• Method 1 of 3: Warm up your muscles
• Method 2 of 3: Make your speaking voice more powerful
• Method 3 of 3: Make your singing voice stronger

If your profession requires you to speak or sing a lot, your vocal cords can tire very easily. By practicing your voice you can strengthen your speaking or singing voice. Warm up your vocal cords by taking deep breaths, moving your tongue, and pretending to be chewing. To strengthen your speaking or singing voice, do vibrations with your lips and practice tongue twisters. Singing scales and "Mm-mm" or "Ney ney ney" are also exercises you can use to strengthen your voice.

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Method 1 of 3: Warm up your muscles

1. Practice taking a deep breath. Stand upright with your back straight with your shoulders relaxed and pulled back slightly. Place your hands on your stomach. Inhale through your nose. Expand your abdomen and lungs / ribs as you inhale. Hold your breath as you count to ten. Then exhale slowly. As you exhale, make sure that your abdomen retracts as if you were forcing the air out of your lungs.
   • While performing this breathing exercise, your shoulders should remain in place; they should not move up and down when you breathe in.
   • Repeat this exercise two to three times.
2. Move your tongue around. Open your mouth slightly and move your tongue around and back and forth in your mouth. Do this for five to eight seconds. Repeat this two to three more times.
   • This exercise helps loosen and relax the muscles at the back of your tongue.
3. Massage your jaw and cheek muscles. Place your palms on the sides of your face. Massage your cheek and jaw with your palms in slow, circular movements. Open and close your jaws while massaging to loosen your jaw muscles.
   • Do this exercise for 20 to 30 seconds, three to five times.
4. Pretend to be chewing. Pretend you have gum or food in your mouth. Use your lower and upper jaw muscles to chew slowly for five to eight seconds. Repeat this two to three times.
   • This exercise helps loosen and relax the jaw muscles.
5. Roll your neck and shoulders. Keep your shoulders still and slowly turn your head counterclockwise and then clockwise. Do this ten times. Keep your neck still and turn your shoulders back ten times and forward ten times.
   • Combined, these exercises help loosen the muscles around your throat and neck.

Method 2 of 3: Make your speaking voice more powerful

1. Say "mm-mmm". Do this until you feel the front of your face buzzing or vibrating. The vibrations can make the front of your face tickle a bit, but this means you are doing the exercise correctly.
   • Repeat this exercise five times.
2. Alternate "mm-mm" and "mm-hmm". Say "mm-mm" like mummy and "mm-hmm" as if you were agreeing to something. Alternate the two mms. Repeat this five times. Then alternate the two mms as you go from low to mid to high, and the same path back in pitch. Repeat this ten times.
   • This exercise helps develop mask resonance.
3. Repeat "noy noy noy". As you move up and down your vocal range (from low tone to mid to high and back again), say "no y no y no y no y no y". Say this out loud, but without shouting.
   • Repeat this exercise ten times.
4. Practice tongue twisters. Say a tongue twister several times, as quickly as you can, while saying the words clearly. Starts slow, but increase your speed over time. This exercise insulates the muscles in your throat, which aid in articulation. A few tongue twisters to practice include:
   • "Mother cut seven crooked slices of bread."
   • "The servant cuts straight and the maid cuts crooked."
   • The coachman is cleaning the stagecoach. "
   • The cat is scratching the curls off the stairs. "
   • "The Spanish prince speaks excellent Spanish."
5. Practice these regularly. Do these exercises three to five times a week. In addition, you can do these exercises 30 minutes before speaking in public, or before speaking for a longer period of time.

Method 3 of 3: Make your singing voice stronger

1. Vibrate with your lips. Keep your lips closed and relaxed, and gently blow air through them. Do this until your lips start to vibrate. Practice this for ten seconds. Repeat the exercise two to three more times.
   • To make the exercise more difficult, also produce a pitch, such as an "uh" sound, while your lips are quivering. Do this for five seconds. The addition of the tone should produce a tickling sensation around your nose, mouth, cheeks, and forehead.
2. Sing do-re-mi. This is a form of ear training. Start on Middle C and sing "do re mi fa so la ti do" up and down the scale. While singing you listen carefully to every pitch.
   • Repeat this exercise five times.
3. Make the sound of a siren. Imagine the sound of a passing fire truck. Start low and make the sound with "Ooooo" and "Ieeeee". While you hear the siren sound, go up and down your voice range in five to eight seconds. Repeat this exercise two to three times, starting higher each time.
   • If you are unable to hit the high and low notes, your voice is tired. Stop the exercise and rest your voice for five minutes.
4. Practice "mah-mej-mie-mu-moo". Start low and sing this slowly in a monotone voice. Repeat this exercise five times, starting higher each time.
   • To make this exercise more difficult, try singing it in one breath.
   • Don't force your vote. Relax your voice while doing this exercise.
5. Say "ng". Make the "ng" sound as in the word "long". You should feel the back of your tongue and the soft roof of your mouth come together. Continue this sound for ten seconds.
   • Repeat this exercise two to three times.
6. Hum a song. Choose one of your favorite songs, or a simple song like "Kortjakt is always sick". Depending on the length of the song, hum it two to three times.
   • This exercise helps loosen and relax your vocal cords.
7. Do these exercises daily. If not daily, then five times a week. Also, make sure to set aside 30 to 45 minutes prior to a performance to do these exercises.