Amsel – Train your Voice

Sarah Fuhs

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About this app

Amsel – Train your Voice* is designed to help you quickly and easily warm up your voice for speaking or singing. Do a wide variety of speaking, breathing and vocal exercises in 15 minutes or less.

Our favorite features include:
- a database of 360+ exercises, sorted into four difficulty levels
- ease of use: choose your voice range, decide how long you want to train, hit play and just repeat what you hear. (Use the music notes if it helps; everything is shown in C-major for simplicity.)
- acoustic recordings; hear sung examples and sing with a real grand piano – no midi sounds within earshot!
- flexibility to set a focus and let the algorithms sort out the right exercises for you. Choose from Body work / Support, Resonance / Directionality, Vowel uniformity, Combining vocal registers, Agility / Coloratura, Economy of air flow / Legato, Articulation, or any of the vowels.
- an Info-Button that gives you tips about the purpose and goals of every single exercise!

*Amsel – Train your Voice is not meant as a singing tutorial but rather as a “fitness app,” a practical application of instant warm-ups to help you get and keep your voice and body in shape for speaking and singing well. Much like doing sit-ups provides many benefits without needing to understand what exactly they do for your body, doing a few simple voice exercises (such as fricative consonants or those pesky lip bubbles) can help to reinforce positive coordinations in your body that lead to optimal use of your vocal cords. For information regarding the science and pedagogy behind the seemingly random collection of syllables and notes, visit amselapp.com/tips – you‘ll find reading tips, video explanations, resources and other media we recommend for a more complete understanding of your voice and singing.

Sarah Fuhs (creator) has over 15 years of experience teaching voice and working with choir singers. As a trained singer and pianist, she began developing digital alternatives for teaching singing technique in 2020, and the Amsel-App is the culmination of that work.

Ratings and reviews

Good idea. So-so execution. Lots of glitches in the application... e.g. doesn't accurately track training history, runs out clock on training session even when paused, etc. Hangs sometimes. Doesn't add value over time, so hard to see justification for subscription model. There is the kernal of a useful app here, but so far it's basically a (nearly) working prototype.

I like the updated version, this App provides a good range of warm-up and vocal exercises, with short 10 min sessions or longer, and you have the opportunity to build your training plan up, which you can repeat, there is also plenty of tips to help you along the way, my singing has improved so much, I get lots of positive compliments since using this App.

It's not a bad app. It uses some pretty well known exercises BUT clicking on info icon during a workout closed it with no way to get back to it, during the second try it just closed on its own and later I tried to go back to the previous exercise to repeat it and it closed again. I now have no way to get back to my workouts because you get 3 tries per week. If the app worked as its supposed to and had metronome during exercises, I would even consider paying for it but for now it's pretty useless

What’s new

Dear Community,

with this version we are updating some dependencies and improving the general performance of the App.

One voice. One lifetime. Let's train together.
Your Amsel App Team