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Dr. Eddie Chang: The Science of Learning & Speaking Languages

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What's the Energy of Your Voice?

In general, men have a larger voice box or larynx. The vibrating frequency of the vocal folds when the air comes through them is about 100 hertz for men and about 200 for women. And what those things are doing is that they're shaping this, the air in particular ways that create consonants and vowels. So that's what I mean by shaping the breath. It just starts with this exhalation. You generate the voice in the larynx,. Then everything above the larynX is moving around, just like the way my mouth is doing right now, to shape that air into particular patterns so you can hear words.

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