Instructions voice recordings

Telepractice is available to clients that live abroad and are unable to come to my practice due to distance or access challenges. I will make your voice analysis based on 4 sound files you will record and e-mail to me before our first session: katrien@findyourvoice.be

Sample 1: Sustained vowel /a/
- Repeat: aaaaaaaa

Sample 2: Gliding tone /a/
- Repeat slowly, and as high as possible, you can go into your falsetto if you can, if not, no problem: aaaaaaaa

Sample 3: Reading the rainbow passage
- Repeat:”When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long, round arch, with its path high above and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”

Sample 4: Continuous speech: a piece of spontaneous talking about your day
- Example of what you could talk about: “Hi Katrien, it’s a wonderful sunny day today. I had to work the whole day so I was sitting behind my computer. Luckily I go out for dinner with friends tonight, I’m very happy because we go to my favourite pasta restaurant.”

Make sure all the samples are saved as .wav files*, and that the recording is high quality. Good quality is indispensable, and usually a phone’s microphone is not quite good enough for this type of recording.

Mac users: After making an audio sample, you can convert it to a .wav file by using Quicktime for example. Open your audio sample in Quicktime, then click “File”, then “Export”. After having clicked on “Export”, you will be able to select .wav!
Windows users: Open your audio sample in Windows Media Player, then click “save as”. At the end of the file name, type “.wav”, and you file will be saved as a .wav file.