How to Do a Giant Voice

pitch

Very low, at the comfortable bottom of your range.

pace

Slow and heavy, with long vowels and long pauses.

resonance

Huge and hollow: a relaxed, lowered larynx and a wide-open mouth.

texture

Warm and booming, sometimes with a soft rumble.

signature

Slow, weighty words that sound like they travel a long way, with booming emphasis.

1. Think big body. Imagine your chest is the size of a barrel and your head is up in the clouds. That image naturally slows you down and opens up your sound.
2. Open the space. Start a gentle yawn and keep the back of your throat open. Drop your jaw more than usual on vowels. A large space makes a large sound.
3. Settle low. Speak at the relaxed bottom of your range. Don't push below it; the depth comes from resonance and pace, not pressure.
4. Slow everything down. Giants move slowly, and so do their words. Stretch the vowels: 'Whooo is walking on my roooof?'
5. Choose friendly or fearsome. A gentle giant smiles, speaks softly and chuckles. A fearsome one booms and snarls. Both stay slow and low.
6. Add scale with the mic and effects. Record close to the microphone for extra bass, then pitch down a few semitones or add a large-room reverb with a voice changer for a towering effect.

Read these with the voice, then record yourself and listen back. The teleprompter below scrolls through all of them.

• Hellooo, little one. Don't be frightened. I only step on fences by accident.
• Who's been climbing my beanstalk? I just watered that.
• Sorry about your roof. I sneezed.
• Bring me the biggest cup in the village. No, bigger. Bigger still.
• Mmm. A tiny house, with a tiny chimney, and tiny smoke. How charming.
• I have counted every star in the sky. It took me three Tuesdays.
• Stand on my hand. I'll carry you over the river.
• Quiet, small people. The mountain is sleeping, and so was I.
• Bones? No, no. I only eat porridge. Lots and lots of porridge.
• Long ago, when the hills were young, my grandfather planted this forest.

• Forcing the pitch down with throat tension. Big comes from open space, not pressure.
• Talking at normal speed. A fast giant sounds small.
• Booming every line. Big volume works best as an occasional moment.
• Keeping the mouth too closed, which makes the voice muffled instead of huge.

Don't press your larynx down or force your voice below its natural floor. Speak from relaxed, open-throat resonance and let the mic and pitch shifting add size. If you add a rumble, keep it gentle and brief, using relaxed false-fold distortion rather than squeezing. Warm up with humming and sirens, sip water and stop if your throat feels tight or sore.

Try the voice in a dubbing scene, roll a random prompt, or warm up first with the vocal warm-up.