Love Your Voice: Use Your Speaking Voice to Create Success, Self-Confidence, and Star-Like Charisma!

by Roger Love

Most people hardly ever think about their voice . . . but that needs to change! Why? Because if your speaking voice actually sounded better, you could dramatically improve the quality of your life. Internationally renowned vocal coach Roger Love has proven that thousands of times over the years with some of the most famous and successful people in the world. He says, In Love Your Voice, Roger takes you step by step through the same techniques he teaches his celebrity clients, and the accompanying CD will make it crystal clear exactly what sounds you should be making. It’s time that you learned the secret sounds leading to success . . . and how to truly Love Your Voice!

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Self Help

125 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2007

About the author

Roger Love is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on voice. No other vocal coach in history has been more commercially successful in both the speaking and singing fields. He has vocally produced more than 100 million CD sales worldwide, written 3 top selling books, Set Your Voice Free, Sing Like the Stars, and Love Your Voice, created the bestselling audio programs Vocal Power…Speaking with Authority, Clarity & Conviction, and The Perfect Voice, produced and starred in the television advertised DVD, Love to Sing, and appeared as a regular in 3 major network TV shows, POPSTARS for The WB, ROCKSTAR/INXS for CBS, and THE ONE: Making a Music Star for ABC. Roger is the voice coach for the mega-hit TV show GLEE.

Reviews

[Jacob O'connor]

My third read. Decent advice. I'm pretty hard on my voice. I talk all day at work, and then I'm often singing on evenings and weekends. I can feel it. Trying to take care of my instrument.



Notes:

(1) Breathe through your nose. It moistens the air so that it doesn't dry out your vocal cords

(2) Accordion in your tummy.

(3) Middle Voice

(4) Using melody

[Caitie]

I sought out this book after happening upon Roger Love being interviewed on the Rachel Ray Show a few weeks ago. I was quite impressed with the complete voice transformations he coached three women through for the show, and while I have no question of Love's skill as a voice coach in person, I'm doubtful that anyone could be so effective in changing their voice at home, just by reading his book and completing his daily exercises.

Essentially, Love takes many theories and techniques of voice training that have long been used by singers, and applies them to the spoken word. There's nothing wrong with the principles themselves, but there's not much new there either. Perhaps for someone with no knowledge of voice training, Love Your Voice could be a good place to begin learning, but I didn't think that the book went much past what many of us learned in primary school music classes or choir. Still, I guess the idea of applying these things to speech (as opposed to singing) is somewhat new and unique.

[Asrai Devin]

I thought I would learn more from this book. It was rather short, with some brief explanations on speaking more clearly, with inflection etc.
The CD was nice, I like the voice exercises, they are a good warm up in the morning when my voice is croaky.
But, the book was very short and rather general. I didn't feel it got me in it's scope of things. I still haven't figured out which middle voice I should be using.