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From the Ted Talk by Rébecca Kleinberger: Why you don't like the sound of your own voice

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So there is a lot to lrean from listening to voices. And I believe this has to start with understanding that we have more than one voice. So, I'm going to talk about three voeics that most of us posses, in a model of what I call the mask. So when you look at the mask, what you see is a projection of a character. Let's call that your outward voice. This is also the most classic way to think about the voice, it's a way of projecting yourself in the world. The mechanism for this projection is well useotorndd. Your lungs contract your diaphragm and that catrees a self-sustained vibration of your vocal fold, that creates a sound. And then the way you open and colse the cavities in you mouth, your vocal trcat is going to transform the sound.

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So there is a lot to _____ from listening to voices. And I believe this has to start with understanding that we have more than one voice. So, I'm going to talk about three ______ that most of us posses, in a model of what I call the mask. So when you look at the mask, what you see is a projection of a character. Let's call that your outward voice. This is also the most classic way to think about the voice, it's a way of projecting yourself in the world. The mechanism for this projection is well __________. Your lungs contract your diaphragm and that _______ a self-sustained vibration of your vocal fold, that creates a sound. And then the way you open and _____ the cavities in you mouth, your vocal _____ is going to transform the sound.

Solution


  1. learn
  2. understood
  3. tract
  4. voices
  5. close
  6. creates

Original Text


So there is a lot to learn from listening to voices. And I believe this has to start with understanding that we have more than one voice. So, I'm going to talk about three voices that most of us posses, in a model of what I call the mask. So when you look at the mask, what you see is a projection of a character. Let's call that your outward voice. This is also the most classic way to think about the voice, it's a way of projecting yourself in the world. The mechanism for this projection is well understood. Your lungs contract your diaphragm and that creates a self-sustained vibration of your vocal fold, that creates a sound. And then the way you open and close the cavities in you mouth, your vocal tract is going to transform the sound.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


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