0:00 This woman is straight up speaking guitar

My friends say I sound like a printer

I had no idea your soft pallet was meant to close off to your nasal passage when speaking. This feels like an entirely new way to talk for me... the diagram showing it was just a massive lightbulb moment. Mind blown.

I don't understand! when I close my nose and talk my voice doesn't change that's mean I have no naselty but when I record it it sound a bit nasly or lazy and sleepy 😕

Omg what you explained makes so much sense. My speech is nasally and ironically whenever I vomit it also comes out of my nose! I hope this helps. Thank you!!

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I was born with cleft palate. I get made fun of because of it. I even got speech therapy all my life, although it didn’t work at all. But this… I can feel my palate actually touching/closed when doing the exercises. I keep thinking to myself that I need surgery even though I’ve had it a couple times, but maybe this might help if I constantly do this. Thank you, I’m 100% doing these every day so it can improve my voice

I appreciate this video a lot. I recently started receiving speech therapy at 36 years old in South Korea following a Muscle Tension Dysphonia diagnosis. The speech therapist has been diligent and putting as much effort as I have however, his English is about as good as my Korean is (I'm an English speaking American) so it has been a struggle to fully comprehend some of what he has been attempting to communicate.

As soon as you said food and drink it became all too clear this has been what I'm dealing with. Appreciate the help!

Thanks. I am also Speech and language therapist. But I m fresh graduate. I had a voice problem patient who has nasal voice. Tnx for a nice video.

Thank you for sharing! Super helpful.

Very interesting! I am going to try this right away.

that humm exercise is gold! I will definitely use it with my Chinese students struggling to pronounce 'l'!

. It is great for me to reach your knowledge. I’m glad that you are updating useful exercises. Thank you.

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i've finally learned how to make a nasal sound thanks to this beautiful witch woman

you solved years of my problem. thank you!

Thank u so much . It was so helpful

Thank you very much for this video! I really notice my voice is to nasal. Thanks to your video I now feel more clearly the nasal cavity being open or close :)

I didn’t realise why I was so mesmerised by this video then I realised … the hat 🤩

Thanks for your educational videos. Can you suggest exercises/solutions for people with hyponasality?

Very useful thank you

Hello. I have been deaf in my right ear since I was five years old. In addition, I have bad allergies and asthma. Now that I am 57, someone recently pointed out to me that I sounded a bit nasally in my KZfaq videos. I used to go to a speech therapist in elementary school, but I can't remember the exercises. I will try these three exercises instead. Thank you.

Thanks for the video but how many times a day do you do these exercises and how long for each one?

How long are we supposed to do this exercises?

Thank you!

Thankk u for this vid, I have hypernasality & hopefully, this can help my voice get clearer on my recitation on Monday:DDD

I feel like another cause of a nasally voice is mouth breathing. There has been a ton of studies done on mouth breathing and how it messes up your skull/jaw/chin development and physical structure, how it ruins your posture, it leads to development of snoring and sleep apnea, and is overall bad for humans because that's not how we evolved. We evolved to breathe through our noses. So I feel like if mouth breathing can do all that,, and physically change your skeleton, then then it is probably able to cause a underdeveloped or weak soft palette and therefore cause a nasally voice.

Great great things to learn ! Ty so much !

thank you!

I found the first one very effective in my case..... Thanks for the video

Great tips

Thankyou

thank you wizard!

great video btw

Very helpful thank you☺

Thank you, I had cleft palate before and I had surgery five years ago but my speech although improved a lot is nasally and it causes me to feel insecure. I will try these exercises and update after a while.

Thank you! That really resonated.

@SierraSpeech how often and for how long are those types of exercises?

Could you please make a video of vocal tone exercise that can make my voice tone sound amazing.

Please can you make a video on auditory feedback for VPI

Hello! How often and how long should I do this? Thank you so much!

I’m wondering if using the muscles around the nose,like the nasalis; which suppresses the nostrils; would have an affect on the voice

Hi Ciara! This is a helpful video. I have a client who has a weakened or possibly no control at all over her vellum. She says she has never been able to puff pit her cheeks! I recommended humming to her to strengthen her soft palate. Can you recommend some humming exercises that may supplement the inability to puff put your cheeks?

yes i realize you filmed this pre halloween but as i watch its now july... all i can think is GRIFFINDOOOOOORRRR lol

This is amazing!!! Thank you!

So ur soft palette Is a muscle? Do u suggest surgery? My son was born not breathing and has speech delay as well as low muscle tone....do u think his soft palette could be effected from low muscle tone and can get stronger over time without surgery?

hello is this exercise helpful for people with sinusitis

would you recommend these same exercises to be used with a 3yo who presents with hypernasality on all sounds (already cleared by ENT)- fellow SLP here with little experience with nasal voicing.

Thank you lil witch

Thank you :) I have sinus/allergies and blocked eustation (ear) tubes. I have a slightly nasal speaking and singing voice, mostly I can tell when I'm tired/just woken up or there's nasal issues. How many times per day would I do these exercises? What would be the approximate time it would start fixing it, and would I keep doing this (as maintenance)? I use a balloon to pop pressure in my ears, and sometimes use saline spray, but nothing is really helping the crackling sound as I open my jaw/yawn. Would these exercises help? My voice is clearish (I sound like a little 5 year old sometimes lol) I just want to get the little bit of nasal out. Thank you. :)

How much time will it take to speak non-nasally?

Hi I want you to evaluate my daughter whether she speaks through the up soft pellet or not. How should I register?

Cool. What if air comes out of my eyeball when pushing on my cheeks. Good or no?

I am taking speech therapy to improve my articulation skills. My therapist recommended I see a voice ent because I sound nasally. What exactly will a voice ent recommend?

It actually works. I can pronounce words better that I had a hard time with after doing this excise

what time will spend for a speech problem patient???

How many times during the day should we do those exercises?

Hi! Does it work to a person undergone cleft palate operation in mid-20s?

I have soft palate paralysis, idiopathic unilateral palsy. What should I do to improve, my therapist told me to do oral Motor exercise.

Hi Ciara, as an upcoming Speech Therapist, I have been learning a lot from your videos and they have been super helpful as well, however the techniques you have been demonstrating lack explanation of how frequent should it be done to achieve optimal results; things of dosage and duration. Kindly help with this, Thank you please.

Schedule a visit with an ear nose and throat (ENT) doctor. Possible diagnostics may find underlying conditions indicating procedural correction to resolve the problem(s)

so i think i press my tung to closs the soft palet i have NO idea hou to close it without my tong

When I am starting to speaking my upper lips is kind of not moving there and I wonder is it have a connection between the sound and upper lip laziness

My ears started ringing after I did this

You are so cute! What about people who never speak through their noses because they are congested all the time? What is that called? Is that good or bad?

when I start to speak my sound is like I’m talking like in a box and my voice is unclear I don’t know what to do and to maybe the other problems in my activity doing it after I speak

I was just wondering, what is your thought on a doctorate SLP stated that non-speech oral motor exercise will NOT help the patient in improving speech? It has been proven that it will NOT help, just wondering what is your thoughts on it.

so how many minutes should this be done.

Came here to learn but fell in love with this gorgeous lady!

why do i feel like my voice changes all the time now it sounds more nasally

I am narrating now and have gotten to know my voice more intimately than I ever have before. There is a click somewhere in my head (between my nose and ear) after almost every vocal cadence, unless the phrase ends with an N or an M. I can't quite pinpoint it but most likely it's nasal cavity related. The click is not really audible until I mix the track. Then it becomes very audible and I have to use mixing software to remove the clicks. I've discovered that the clicks are triggered when I stop exhaling at the end of the last word in the phrase. I've tried the techniques you demonstrated and they were helpful last night when I was lying in bed. Today, however, while SITTING in font of my computer monitor and after performing the nasal exercises, the clicks did not go away. I am from Long Island NY, we use our nose a lot when we speak. HAHA. Does any of what I described raise an eyebrow?

Hi I went and lived in japan for 2 years I’m 14 now but my voice was average before and now I have a really high pitch voice and I don’t know what to do :(

Hello Sierra and thank you so much, this is very helpful! I have a specific question: I'm a college student who was born with a partial cleft palate and am working to reduce my hypernasality. My doctor said I have really good articulation and the problem is mainly that there's a gap on the right side of the velum when it should be completely blocking air flow, letting a lot more air go through than normal. Will these exercises help with that? is there any way to strengthen one side of my cleft palate in particular? Thanks again :)

I saw that diagram at 2:05 and was seriously shocked... Is the soft palate really meant to be that big that it hits the back???? Because mine is so small I can put my tongue over it

Hi, I'm a speech therapist and have some patients with stroke and TBI, obviously, they have VPI and I usually use your advice besides other therapeutic ways. I want to add this comment that sometimes (as in my patients) in some cases disabilities that patients have are more complex and they can't do this exercises for strengthening their VP and reduce their nasality, so do you have any suggestion for this patients? best,

i was thinking of that one caleb city vine during the intro lmao

breathe through a straw? are you trying to kill me lady jk ty i breathe out of straw now

Hi I want to contact you because my pronounciation is not good

mam I have nasal voice problem give lesson to fix totally

Foes it work?

These exercise are effective for cleft lip and palate patients with hypernasility....???

You are totally look like dytto 😄😍

Omg. 1 min away from Halloween and I saw this video

Hi a had a bacterial sore throat after 7days of medication and heal, my speech became nasal i think i have a problem with my soft palate because when i drink water some goes up to my nose and i sound nasally! why this happen? pls give me advice... im 31yrs old

You should start an asmr channel

I’m just tryna not sound spongebob

Hai , i am a 22 year girl and i do have avery high voice even when i normally speak evry one is like please lower your vois it's sound like noise chilled Can you help me 💔

This is so me. Huhu

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I'm having problem with l,m,n and I cant even hmm while holding my nose . Please guide

How I can correct my nasal voice if I have facial paralysis.. I can’t do the exercises that you said ;/

Does anyone know if it works - im gonna try it for a few days

Can a ent help with this? If not for 100% sure .who would I see ? I looked on line but I not sure who for real help with this. I'm tired of felling insecure and judge by my voice. It's a nightmare. No one take me seriously. People try pushing me around and I really believe it's the sound I'm make when I speak. I heard myself from recording it and I myself want to bully me. No joke.

Hey I was wondering if this can help me sound less gay? I have a problem sounding feminine and some people say I sound nasally, can these exercises help me sound more straight?

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How much time should we do this?

My voice is a bit nasally but I can't breath from one side of my nose. Could that be the reason why?

She gives the first tip at 2:40

I was born cleft palate my first surgery was dine at the age of 3 yeras but still i have hypernasal speech problem i can't talk vid strangers if i talk some ppl are laughing i have done my masters degree in psychology Can you please tell me mam how can i rid out this problem Some time i think there is only one opition that is sucide😕😕😕