Your Voice: A User’s Guide is a science-backed handbook for anyone whose living depends on their voice: teachers, singers, fitness instructors, salespeople, call centre workers, clergy. This is where the ideas in the book come to life, so you can hear them, see them, and try them for yourself.
See whether your voice is producing the band of energy around 2.5–3.5 kHz that lets a voice carry across a room without being pushed. Choose your speaking or singing voice, record a few seconds, and get a score plus something specific to try. Then go again and watch the number move.
Runs entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
Every exercise from the book in one place, with clear steps and the reason each one works: straw phonation and the other semi-occluded exercises, the silent giggle, anchoring, resonant voice, the warm-up and the cool-down, the five-minute daily release practice, and the graded return after illness.
Nothing needed beyond a drinking straw.
A tone generator so you can hear how startlingly high 2,500 Hz really is, alongside recorded examples showing the fundamental and the ring in a real voice.
A question and answer assistant grounded in the book and its cited research, so you can ask about your own situation and get an answer with the evidence behind it.
Darren Johnstone is a teacher and singer who nearly lost his voice to muscle tension dysphonia, and then spent years learning how the voice actually works. The book is the manual he wishes someone had handed him: no mysticism, no folklore, and every claim traceable to published research.
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