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Mouth sounds

Some basics

There are 3 main parts to how sound is produced with the mouth:

  1. HOW the sound is produced - manner of articulation
  2. WHERE the sound is produced - point of articulation
  3. VIBRATION of vocal cords - voiced or voiceless To reduce vocal strain, the following sounds focus on voiceless utterances with no vocal chord vibration. For an example of vocal chord vibrations, try making an 's' versus a 'z' sound - you can feel the vibrations of the 'z' in your neck.
  • P uses both lips
  • F uses lower lip and upper teeth
  • S, T are made using the tongue and alveolar ridge
  • TH is made by placing tongue against or between the teeth
  • CH, SH is made when the center of the tongue approaches the palate
  • K is made when the back of the tongue touches the soft palate, or velar

(Pictures of tongue position for each of these... alveolar/ridges behind front teeth, palate, velar/soft palate, etc: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Palatoalveolar_fricative.png/330px-Palatoalveolar_fricative.png)

P, T, K are plosives (brief stopping of the airstream) F, S, H are fricatives (almost blocking airstream)

Many of these sounds will be the same utterances, while using your lips to change their tones.

  • Relaxed lips are in their natural state, slightly parted.
  • To pull your lips back, raise your cheeks as if you are fake smiling. This should make the pitch higher.
  • To push your lips forward, make an 'oo' sound and keep your lips in that position. This should make the pitch lower.

Various hisses

Hiss (sss)

  • Straight hiss sound
  • Let your mouth hang slightly open with your lips parted. This should feel very natural
  • Breathe in, through either your nose or mouth, then push it out through your teeth
  • Your tongue should stay relaxed behind the teeth and not be pushed against them, and the air should flow easily

Muted Hiss (thh)

  • Let your mouth hang slightly open with your lips parted
  • Breathe in, through either your nose or mouth, then push it out through your teeth
  • Let the tip of your tongue rise a little and block some of the air flow
  • This should feel like it takes a little more pressure than the straight hiss sound, and the air will go off to the sides rather than the middle

Restrained Hiss (fff)

  • Let your mouth hang slightly open with your lips parted
  • Bring your top front teeth down to gently rest on the top of your lower lip
  • Breathe in, through either your nose or mouth, then push it out through your teeth
  • This should feel like a little more pressure than sss, and less than thh

Hi-Hat (tss)

  • Let your mouth hang slightly open with your lips parted
  • Have your teeth closed
  • Breathe in, through either your nose or mouth, then push it out through your teeth
  • The tip of your tongue should start pushed against the small ridge behind your teeth, then immediately drop it to normal position

Shush (shh)

  • Let your mouth hang slightly open with your lips parted, this should feel very natural
  • Breathe in, through either your nose or mouth, then push it out through your teeth
  • The middle of your tongue should be raised closer to your palate and the air should still flow easily

Tongue whoosh (Unvoiced subapical postalveolar non sibilant fricative)

  • Bend your tongue upwards so that the tip almost touches the roof of your mouth
  • Breathe out so that the air whooshes around your tongue
  • See https://youtu.be/65c2FGQIpuc

Voiceless noises

P (puh)

  • Press your lips together, the top lip should curl down a bit
  • Exhale to push air out the mouth, forcing the lips apart
  • Do this for one short breath to get the exhaled 'uh' sound

Horse

  • Same as puh
  • Drop the 'uh' sound
  • Keep your lips relaxed and blow out more air to make the lips vibrate slowly 4-5 times

Motorcycle

  • Same as puh
  • Drop the 'uh' sound
  • keep your lips relaxed and blow out more air to make the lips vibrate quickly
  • Force more air out to get the sound to rise

F (fuh)

  • Curl your bottom lip in and touch your front teeth to the top of it
  • Exhale to push air out of the mouth, forcing the lips apart
  • Do this for one short breath to get the exhaled 'uh' sound

S (suh)

  • Keep your mouth and lips relaxed
  • Start with the hiss sound
  • Exhale to push air out of the mouth for one short breath to get the exhaled 'uh' sound

K (kuh)

  • Keep your jaw relaxed and your lips parted
  • Elevate the back of your tongue to push against the soft palate, while the tip stays down
  • Exhale to push air out of the mouth
  • This should feel like a 'stop'

T (tuh)

  • Keep your jaw relaxed and your lips parted
  • Elevate the tip of your tongue to the back of your front teeth or the ridge behind them
  • Exhale to push air out of the mouth
  • This should feel like a 'stop'

H (huh)

  • Keep your jaw relaxed and your lips parted
  • Keep your tongue relaxed
  • Exhale forcibly from your diaphram

Hard H (hgh) epiglottal trill

  • Keep your jaw relaxed and your lips parted
  • Pull your tongue slightly back towards your soft palate
  • Exhale forcibly from your diaphram, causing an air vibration across your palate

Rolled R (rrh) raised trill

  • Think of a tongue trill
  • Place the tip of your tongue gently on the roof of your move behind the front teeth
  • Gently force air over the top of the tongue and let the tip wag agains the roof of your mouth
  • Not every one can do this!

X (xuh) velar fricative

  • Like making the sound 'och' or 'augh'
  • Keep mouth open and lips parted
  • Gently retract tongue towards back of throat
  • Say 'ah'

Combined hiss and voiceless noises

Retracting Tape Measure (ssk)

  • Straight hiss sound
  • End with a 'k'
  • Let your mouth hang slightly open with your lips parted
  • Breathe in, through either your nose or mouth, then push it out through your teeth
  • Your tongue should not be pushed against your teeth, and the air should flow easily
  • Keep the tip of your tongue down and let the back should rise slightly to touch the soft palate, then force some air out
  • This should feel like letting out the rest of the breathe quickly

Fake Whispers (ssp)

  • Like you are secretly telling a friend a joke to make another friend jealous
  • Straight hiss sound
  • End with a 'p'

Stop That (sst)

  • Like you want your cat to stop it
  • Straight hiss sound
  • End with a 't'

Get Attention (pst)

  • Like trying to keep your voice low while getting someone's attention

Dirty Word (ffk)

  • Make the restrained hiss (fff) noise
  • End in 'k'

Backflip (ffp)

  • Make the restrained hiss (fff) noise
  • End in 'p'

Angry Cat (fft)

  • Make the restrained hiss (fff) noise
  • End in 't'

Chucking Knives (thhk)

  • Make the muted hiss noise
  • End in 'k'

Narrow Miss (thhp)

  • Make the muted hiss noise
  • End in 'p'

Quick Stab (shhk)

  • Make the shush noise
  • End in 'k'

Shoop (shhp)

  • Make the shush noise
  • End in 'p'

Click Sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31zzMb3U0iY

Tsk aka Tut (C Click, Dental Click)

  • Place the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth near your top front teeth
  • Start by making a 't' sound, to get your mouth in the right shape
  • Instead of forcing air out, suck in lightly on your hard palate, in quick succession

Trot (X Click, Lateral Click)

  • Place your tongue against your teeth to one side
  • On the side your have placed your tongue, raise your cheek to lift the top lip and expose the teeth
  • Suck in gently

Clop (Q Click, Alveolar Click)

  • Think of a horse walking on cobblestones
  • Let your mouth hang slightly open with your lips parted
  • Place your tongue against the roof of your mouth, then suck in
  • As you suck in, your tongue should start to slide back a little
  • Eventually it should slide off the roof of your mouth and the suction will create a click sound

Mouse squeak (Labiodental click)

  • Place your front teeth against your lower lip, as if to make an 'f' sound
  • Suck in, and then release your teeth from your lower lip to make a sucking sound

Other Sounds

Pop

  • Relax your jaw and keep your lips pressed very gently together
  • Push a very tiny bit of air into your mouth, then quickly open your jaw, pulling your lips apart
  • This should create a gentle pop sound that resonates within your mouth and cheeks
  • This works best with a bit of moisture on your lips
  • Not everyone can do this!

Reverse Pop

  • Start to say the word 'wet' but don't say it - your lips should be pursed
  • At the same time that you gently start to pull air into your mouth, pull your lips out and away to get a quieter, higher pitched reverse pop of air
  • You may not hear it at first, but the mic does pic it up!

Smooch

  • Purse your lips tighly together, almost as if you've licked something sour
  • Forcibly pull or suck in air through the lips, keeping them pursed
  • This should making a small, short squeaking noise

Sucking Teeth

  • Press your teeth together
  • Purse your lips
  • Suck in air

Uh

  • Keep your mouth and lips relaxed
  • Force air from your diaphram, like saying the 'uh' from 'uh oh'

Oh

  • Keep your mouth and lips relaxed
  • Force air from your diaphram and push your lips forward, like saying the 'oh' from 'uh oh'

High Fart

  • Stick your tongue out past your teeth, between your lips
  • Blow out air over the top of your tongue and let your top lip vibrate

Low Fart

  • Stick your tongue out past your teeth, between your lips
  • Blow out air from beneath your tongue and let your bottom lip vibrate

Mouth Smack

  • Keep your mouth and tongue relaxed
  • Drop your lower jaw and then raise it again quickly in succession
  • A drier mouth will make this harder

Loogie

  • Start by making the Hard H sound, then pull your lips back quickly custom glue-up