Tidal Breathing

The voice is a person's own unique musical instrument. Someone can compare a person's voice to the sound of a violin which have their own unique structures to aide in creating the sound of pitch, frequency, loudness, and specific notes. A violin's body is like a human's body in that it holds all the parts and structures together, and each structure has a role. Tightening the strings at the peg box creates more tension, and when played, a higher frequency or pitch occurs. The violin strings are similar to a person's vocal folds because they are held together by the peg box and bridge, creating tension in the strings. Once the bow starts playing on the strings it causes a vibration. Fingers play at specific points on the neck similar to
Tidal breathing is an automatic and unconscious act. During speech breathing, it is a voluntary act in which the speaker controls. Tidal breathing and speech breathing have different inhalation rates which one can solve using the iFraction method. The iFraction method is taking the amount of time it takes to inhale and dividing it by the total respiratory cycle. Tidal Breathing has a person inhaling around 0.45 seconds during a respiratory cycle, but speech breathing inhalation takes approximately 0.16 seconds. The inhalation of air when speaking is shorter because a person needs to exhale for a longer period of time to say long utterances. Inhalation of air for speech can vary depending how long the utterance is. For example, if a person is yelling at a crazy driver on the freeway, he will take a quick inspiration so he has enough energy to scream at the driver. If he still has unkind words to scream and is running out of air, he will inhale quickly again to finish his statement. Inhaling helps a person get the air he needs for speech, but when he exhales, air goes through the laryngeal cavity and the mouth to create the voice to