Please read the preceding passage aloud into your recorder. As you read the paragraph, you may have noticed a number of things happening with your voice, if not at the beginning of your reading, then as you got closer to the end. Get out a pencil, and as you play the recording back, look through the following list and mark the items that you think apply to you. Did you Start strong but peter out by the end, feeling strained? Have to clear your throat frequently? Sound too soft? Notice that your voice felt too low, and gravelly, especially at the ends of sentences? Hear your voice breaking in
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