The 3-Dimensional Voice: A Fun & Easy Method of Voice (The Wilson Voice Series)

Not until we get to page 38 does the reader get anything practical.
The author fills 38 pages to the brim with grotesquely out of proportion illustrations,
a religious butchering of the English grammar, and simplistic platitudes such as,

Depth is defined as, Depth: "Websters defines depth as, "Measuring the distance of anything from top to bottom".

Then, in case the reader doesn't yet understand what the word, "depth," means, on the next page the reader finds an illustration obviously drawn by the author's 4 year old German Shepherd. This drawing is of a well, with a sign next to it, which reads, "Deep Well."

This is after she explains to the reader that, to see in three dimensions, one needs "ridiculous glasses." She writes that we can hear 3 dimensional sound without such added perception enhancers.

Did this author finish grade school? I have been seeing in 3 dimensions without "added perception enhancers." Obviously, this author can only see through one eye.

The only helpful part of this book is where, toward the end, the author copies and pastes from a better book, Change Your Voice, Change Your Life. To her credit, she gives credit to that author.

Save your money, your time, and your self-respect by not opening this book, even if you get it for a penny.

Far better books follow:

Voice and The Actor
The Actor Speaks
Change Your Voice, Change Your Life

This book deserves one star for directing the reader to the better book by Dr. Cooper.

Perfect novel for anyone and everyone looking to gain knowledge on the voice and speaking. I would highly recommend it. Fun read and best resources! Great job JONI

This is an awesome and helpful book. The only thing that it is missing is how to sing. I would recommend this to anyone who is shy and wants to develop a much stronger voice.

This books contains lots of fun exercises to make your voice sound fuller and richer - giving it depth, width and length. You will find a brief overview of vocal anatomy, just enough to get acquainted with your equipment, but not too much to put you to sleep - there is a reference to books if you want to know more. At the beginning of the book, there is a list of common problems people experience and you can do self-analysis to discover what would you like to improve with your voice and focus more on exercises that help to correct that particular problem. The book is easy to read, the exercises are fun to do and best of all, most of them you can do at any time anywhere, and the suggestions in the book are very helpful.

I have to give this book three stars out of five (somehow I felt "conditioned" to give it five) because I feel it puts too much of an emphasis on strengthening the voice (I didn't know it needed to lift weights...would I want it to either?) and making it deeper and lower (way too stereotypical & dated: I know this may sound hard to believe, but I truly DON'T want to sound like James Earl Jones).

For me, personally, I felt like I was afflicted with the "pretty girl syndrome" voice: you sound like Brooke Shields (strained and perfectionistic) at times, but YOU'RE A BOY! My very pretty sister has the same problem (I probably picked up some of this nightmare from her) and I can't stand listening to her talk. I found out that this comes from TENSION and it sounds horrible: this book helped clear that up for me. I also realized my voice is more masculine than I thought which I'm not entirely comfortable with, but I can get pleasantly used to.

Like, I'm pretty playful when it comes to my voice and am effective with it when I imitate or joke around. When I have to be me...I got into this really bad habit during adolescence where I just blew off the whole voice thing and it carried over into my adulthood, especially when I'm supposed to be "serious".

What I would say is that the book is informative and that it gives the basic mechanisms of voice. My problem with it is that I'm going to have to reread and just pick out the parts of the book that are pertinent or relevant to what I want: I basically have to wade through and edit the whole book for myself now which is annoying, but I guess this stuff is work (but it shouldn't be: the author could have made it a little more effortless and pure). Like using the tongue and slackening the jaw and laying off the larynx for that heavy tension, but it's a pretty good primer anyways.

The author is too likable in that you're more willing to give her an A+ (she has this slick ability of getting you in fun mode and also like you get the feeling "if you don't give this book five stars this puppy will die" kind of feel) when it should be lower. It also tends to get a little too cutesy and optimistic at times (I think a "negative" voice can sound interesting at times: who wants to sound positive at a funeral? and is an optimistic, newscaster's voice that hip?).

I'm definitely getting Change your voice, change your life cause I want my already bashfully masculine voice to be real, unaffected, and not lifting weights each and everyday (I found a lot of the exercises annoying and conterproductive to my purposes and intent).

There are a LOT of distracting mispellings (Hypocrites instead of Hippocrates) and misprints that don't affect the content or information of the book, but are still sloppy. I'm just grateful I got the basic, 3d one on voice and not the 3d business voices (how cheesy must that voice sound like?). A good basic book, but BEWARE of sounding cheesy (deep and brawny voiced like that paper towel guy: yeah, that's the male ideal) and not so with it.