Your objective voice

How your voice sounds comes from three components of voice production: voiced sound, resonance, and articulation. What we hear depends on your physiology, posture, and speaking habits. The exercises you are going to do here are not meant to change the way you sound or your normal speaking habits. If you have one of those 'golden voices', that's your good fortune. If not, you'll do fine with whatever kind of voice you have.

What's important about your voice is not how it sounds, but “who” is talking.

Your subjective voice

Your voice is the way you talk to your kids and family, answer the phone, say hello to neighbors, chat with the checkout person at the grocery store. That voice responds to the events in your life, as you live it. That voice changes with your emotions. This is the sound of you speaking.

The listener doesn't want to hear the you you. Leave the you you out of the recording.

The voice of the narrator

The voice you are going to work on here is “your narrator's voice”. This is the voice that exists only inside the covers of your book. I'm talking about the 'voice' that you hear speaking in your mind, when you read this particular book silently to yourself.

Your goal is to externalize that internal voice as best as you can.