Parkinson’s Voice Changes: 5 Mistakes That Could Be Making Your Speech Worse

Living with Parkinson’s | Bryce Perry · Oct 13, 2026 · 17m

Have you ever started talking and halfway through a sentence, your voice just seems to disappear?

You know exactly what you want to say. But your voice gets softer, your words run together, or someone asks you to repeat yourself for the fifth time.

And eventually, you start talking less.

Not because you have nothing to say, but because trying to be heard has become exhausting.

In this episode of Living with Parkinson’s: The Good, the Bad, and the Reality, I share five mistakes that can make Parkinson’s voice changes harder to manage and what we can do about them.

We talk about:

• Dismissing…