Working together live with Patrick, you'll receive personalized instruction to address your speaking concerns and begin improving immediately.
Patrick's online courses provide a clear path to mastering the Standard American Accent. Learn everything from the fundamentals of American speech to overcoming the challenges of English as a second language and more.
Working together live with Patrick, you'll receive personalized instruction to address your speaking concerns and begin improving immediately.
Patrick's comprehensive online courses provide a clear path to mastering the Standard American Accent. Learn everything from the fundamentals of American speech to overcoming the challenges of English as a second language and more.
20s READ Making your speech clearer, crisper, and more resonant is a life-changing experience. Allowing your breath to effortlessly support the sound of your voice will give you great confidence in your ability to clearly communicate and easily express yourself. Finding your voice is earning that freedom.
Be heard. Be understood. Find your voice.™
—Patrick Muñoz
20s READ Patrick has worked with all types of voice and speech concerns. Bring your biggest challenges and begin your journey to finally have a voice that reflects your personality. This is your time to learn the steps toward mastering your vocal quality.
20s READ Inside each of us is a powerful, authentic voice. Coaching with Patrick will help you uncover what's preventing you from accessing it. Learn to discover and develop your authentic voice and speak freely with clarity and confidence.
Patrick has been helping individuals find their voice for over 20 years, enabling executives, teams, business owners, and people from all walks of life to feel confident and clear when speaking with others.
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Book your appointment up to 30 days in a advance with a 24-hour cancellation policy.
Coaching sessions last 50-minutes and take place in Patrick's private Zoom room.
All Zoom sessions are recorded and provided for you to download and review.
You'll learn and practice live with Patrick, and leave with notes and exercises to follow.
“Patrick’s book is a valuable handbook for non-native English speakers as well as native English speakers who would like to present with a more polished speech pattern. As a speech pathologist with many years of practice I was pleased to see that Patrick focuses on the key speech sounds that provide difficulty for all speakers but especially those whose first language is not English. His tips for developing a better speaking voice and clear articulation are excellent tools for performers and professionals in all fields.”
Gloria S. Lazar, M.S., M.Phil, CCC
Speech-Language Pathologist
“Straightforward and easy to read with many helpful exercises to develop a clear American accent.”
Paul N. Kolecki
Singer, Actor, Voice Coach
American English is one of the most difficult languages in the world to master. Accent: American is designed to help foreign speakers learn how to sound authentically American. This book will also help the regional speaker attain professional, non-regionalized speech. Start properly pronouncing consonant, vowel and diphthong sounds today. Whether your goals are social or professional, Accent: American will effectively teach you how to articulate Standard American English clearly and confidently. American English may be difficult, but using this book will make it simple, easy and fun!
In this step-by-step affirmations guide, world-renowned Voice & Speech Coach Patrick Muñoz walks you through the power of affirmations to make you a better speaker. Using three different approaches to the traditional affirmation, Muñoz takes you on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. You have a powerful voice, and these 51 affirmations help you to understand and embrace it.
In the first set, Patrick introduces the 51 affirmations spoken with a strong and affirmative voice. Next, he helps you to break down each affirmation to understand how they relate and resonate for you. The final section offers the affirmations spoken with a soft and mellow mood, helping you to meditate, relax or drift into slumber.
Using this book consistently will help you to embrace your most resonant voice and speak your best!
While everyone has their own goals, it may be to…
Each session is 50 minutes in duration and takes place via the Zoom videoconferencing platform. Please have an active, free account with Zoom™ and have the software installed and tested before your appointment begins. This way, every available minute is spent with you and not technical difficulties.
Other videoconference platforms are available. Just get in touch and we’ll work it out.
A portion of each session will be recorded and you will record or receive a copy of your session to download. In your first meeting, Patrick will evaluate your voice and speech and will tailor a Voice and Speech program that is right for you.
Accents are important because they identify where you come from, but become a problem when people can’t understand you. Accent work depends on your own goals. Whether you would like to learn the Standard American Accent, learn a new accent or dialect, or improve the clarity of your speech, Patrick can help you identify and remove those stumbling blocks to help you reach your goals.
The answer is different for everyone. If English is your first language, you CAN eliminate regional accents. At least 6-12 sessions are recommended. You will always feel and hear results immediately.
It varies for each person, depending on their goals. You will see, feel, and hear results in your first session. Ideally, a length of study should be at least 6-12 lessons to ensure optimal results.
Great question! Purchasing enrollment in an online course will give you immediate access to that course’s training. You may start your course at any time, leave and pick up where you left off at any time, and since the courses are not timed you may take as long as you like to proceed and complete the course.
Keep in mind:
Lessons in all Accent: American courses must be initially completed in the order presented.
As you complete each lesson, you may go back and revisit them in any order. But new lessons must be completed in-order the first time through.
After completing a course, all lessons are available to revisit in any order.
Be prepared… Each course contains many hours of voice & speech training. You’ll learn a great deal about the course subject in theory and in practice. It’s very similar to in-person coaching and should feel much like a private session with Patrick.
Patrick has created these online courses with special care, tailoring each of them to address his students’ needs.
Visiting any of the Online Courses on this website will present you with an information tab titled, “Lesson Plan.” Each course has its’ own lesson plan which lists the title and duration of every lesson contained within.
Assessment courses allow you to receive a personal evaluation from Patrick on your starting point as well as your progress after completing your course.
All of Patrick’s online courses provide many hours of instruction. But for most students, personal feedback is a very valuable addition.
Choosing a course “with Assessment” adds the ability to upload a video or audio recording of yourself speaking a standard diagnostic selection of text.
After uploading your pre-course assessment, Patrick will be notified and he will review your recording. He then will provide direct feedback privately to you regarding what you should focus on during your course.
There will also be a post-course assessment so you & Patrick may evaluate your progress after completing the course. Again, feedback will be provided directly and privately to you right from the course’s assessment page.
No. Access to your purchased online courses will never expire.
Once you purchase a course it will be permanently available to you via your “My Account” page.
The short answer is No. Although with an exception…
We must reserve the option to update and improve course content as necessary.
The overall course structure and its information is planned to remain unchanged in the future. But if a change or valuable improvement is made, currently enrolled students will never be required to pay again to access those changes.
If we make changes or updates to a course, they will be accessible to everyone automatically.