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Philip Thompson

5 Lessons Corporate Clients Taught Me About Teaching Voice & Speech to Conservatory Students

April 17, 2017October 16, 2018 Philip Thompsonconventions, teaching

(Today’s post contributed by Rockford Sansom) Over the past several years, I’ve been privileged to serve as a voice coach for many corporate clients around the globe. I have a passion for these business men and women since so many […]

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Skeptical Face

March 22, 2016August 1, 2018 Philip ThompsonUncategorized

  This article showed up in the Vasta’s Voices Facebook group, and I’ve been ruminating over how (or whether) I should respond to it.  I mean, it’s just a fluffy little article for people to toss back and forth on […]

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Finding Your Voice

March 1, 2016 Philip Thompsondeep in the weeds, questions, teaching

Today we bring you a guest post by Eric Armstrong, who teaches voice, speech, and text at York University. As a voice and speech teacher, I’ve been very lucky to have some great role models, mentors, colleagues and master teachers, […]

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Time Put In

February 23, 2016 Philip Thompsonaccents, conventions, Principles (perhaps)

I’m looking forward to 2016 KTS Teacher Certification in June. Not only will I have the opportunity to discuss the intricacies of human communication and speech with exceptionally intelligent and good-looking people, but I’ll also get to visit New York […]

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An Apology For Rabbit Holes

February 18, 2016 Philip Thompsondeep in the weeds, Principles (perhaps), roots

Laura Barrett http://laurabarrett.co.uk/Alice-in-Wonderland   It’s true, I do find myself apologizing for my tendency to wander off topic, picking up some apparently tangential thread and tracing it back to the extent of my knowledge on the subject. However, I’m not […]

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Vocal Tract Posture and Four-Year-Olds

February 18, 2016 Philip Thompsonaccents, exercises, fun, Oral posture, physicality, Vocal tract posture

A version of this post was previously published in The VASTA Voice. Getting the vocal tract posture of a language or an accent right is a crucial part of successful accent acquisition. Vocal tract posture (also called oral posture), is […]

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What is the Value of Broad Transcription?

February 16, 2016 Philip Thompsonconventions, linguistics, phonetics, questions, standard language ideology, The Empty Chart, transcription

This blog post is an open inquiry: what is the value of teaching broad transcription to actors these days? Every fall, I teach phonetics to my first-year acting students at Rutgers. Every fall, we go through the empty consonant chart, […]

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Accent Coach Apologizes for Offending an Entire People! Read all about it!

February 11, 2016 Philip Thompsonaccents, Oral posture, Principles (perhaps), Vocal tract posture

In 2011 I was approached by an online “how-to” site to do a series of 2-5 minute “teaser” accent videos. The sort where you learn a few key features of an accent and you’re on your way. Great for the […]

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This is the KTSpeechblog

June 14, 2014September 9, 2018 Philip Thompsondeep in the weeds, Dudley, Principles (perhaps), questions, roots

We have so many avenues for communicating to a wider audience and amongst ourselves; what is it that a blog can do that isn’t handled by Facebook, or by Vastavox or by countless other speech/accent/phonetics blogs? Our hope is that this is a […]

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Schwiznet and glit

August 14, 2013 Philip ThompsonDudley, Omnish

  Dudley Knight  1939-2013  It seems likely that anyone coming to this blog at this point will have heard of Dudley’s passing. If not, here’s what happened: On June 25th, 2013, walking home from rehearsal, on a beautiful cool night […]

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