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They key to changing your sound is knowing
that your larynx here, also called voice box,
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can be moved by the complex series of muscles
in your neck that attach it to the bones.
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It can be moved up or back down. It can be moved
forward. It can be moved backward. And all of
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these things affect not the pitch, because that's
the vocal cords, but they affect the formants,
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the other sounds above that frequency, and those
formants are what will give you an American voice
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or not. So in order to have the right shape of
the vocal tract to sound more American, you want
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a lower larynx or voice box. Your native language
may have your voice box in a slightly different
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place in your throat, that will change the way
you sound. So if you think of a wide open neck,
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I think that helps my students release the muscles
in their neck, which then helps the larynx or the
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voice box drop down. And that gives your vocal
tract the right shape for the American placement.
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