Your Voice Is Your Business: The Science and Art of Communication

Your Voice Is Your Business: The Science and Art of Communication, Second Editioncombines the latest in voice research and technology with the most powerful, state-of-the-art presentation skills and methods. The result is an integrated and comprehensive approach to connecting the technically based aspects of voice production with an applied, skill-based grasp of interpersonal effectiveness. This text serves as both a practical handbook and a resource on human vocal production in real-world settings. Relevant techniques of positioning, gesture, and paraverbals are incorporated in the study of successful voice presentation. Additionally, technical information is integrated into the text and reviewed at the end of each chapter.

This second edition responds to the readers’ desire for an expansion of the topics, illustrations, and techniques found particularly effective in the first edition, and provides new information reported in recent speech-language pathology literature in two brand-new chapters with vivid, powerful, and direct explanations and exercises.

Your Voice Is Your Business The Science and Art of Communication, Second Editionhas been designed for ease of use for the student of voice science or anyone eager to use their communication abilities to their best advantage at work, on stage, or in everyday life. This text includes terminology and references suitable to the serious student of the voice, as well as detailed, realistic scenarios to further any professional’s knowledge on the art of human communication, and will be a staple in multiple fields including speech-language pathology, communications, theater and drama, and business.

Reviews

“The book richly rewards readers who are looking for suggestions to improve their personal or business communication. In a gentle voice that is rooted in science as well as experience, the book speak effectively to speech-language pathologists, business people, and any one interested in using voice as a tool to achieve greater effectiveness in communication.”
—M.N. Hedge, Professor of Speech-Language Pathology, Department of Communicative Disorders, California State University, Fresno 

“What makes this such an accessible reference book is its clarity of terminology, provision of many examples, a lay-out that invites easy re-visiting or selection of topics by chapter division with a summary of key ideas at the end of each and a thorough reference list, final glossary and index. The strength of this book is the way it switches seamlessly from technical terminology to descriptive “lay” words then relates this to the reader’s experience, reflection and application. . . . In summary, this book could be described as a practical, well-referenced handbook on vocal production and communication, valuable in the fields of speech-language pathology, communications, theatre, drama, public speaking and business.”
—Helen Sjardin, VoicePrint, periodic newletter of the Australian Voice Association (VoicePrint 50 – August 2015)