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Expecting every trans woman to become a full fledged voice actor to have their gender respected is bad actually
natural voice change
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Boom Your Voice
How to deepen your voice naturally
How to talk with a deeper voice
How to deepen your voice (pre-t) Voice masculinization
Vocal androgyny in speech and singing
This Phone App Helps Transgender Users Change The Pitch And Tone Of Their Voices (buzzfeed article)
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Voice Feminization
Pitch, range, resonance, depth
How to develop a female voice
Feminine voice techniques
Me: I bet I sound like a real mans man in the recording 😎
*plays it back and sounds like a 6 year old boy*
this is probably a kinda dumb question but i've been meaning to ask this since i first heard your voice on one of your streams have you started voice training yet i ask because i genuinely can't tell
not a dumb question at all! actually, this is a great springboard into something...
i haven't done any voice training at all, no. often on phone calls, people will get confused about whether to call me "ma'am" or "sir"... but the higher the quality of the call, like on discord or on streams, the easier it is to tell. IRL it's rather obvious that i've got a nerdy guy's voice.
i've always been a little self-conscious about it – before i transitioned i was too self-conscious about getting called "ma'am" on the phone, now i'm self-conscious about "passing" as a genderfluid person (whatever that means). funny how gender roles always play into it, even when they don't make sense.
honestly, i'm less concerned about it now that i've been streaming for so long... it helped me get used to hearing the sound of my own voice, helped me understand what strengths and weaknesses i have when i do silly voices on stream. and, really, isn't that kind of what voice training is about?
that said, i have wanted to sit down and proper voice training one of these days, not because i want my voice to sound more feminine (though that would be nice) – rather, i'd like to expand the range of my voice.
cause as a kid, my voice used to have range! i would mimic voices of TV characters and sing all the songs in the hymnal at church. i LOVED getting to express myself like that!
until one day i was at church singing my heart out and i felt my voice crack. and i stopped singing so loud, and i stopped parroting cartoon quotes, and i stopped being so confident.
it's one thing for my voice to crack and deepen and start to sound like a man's voice... but that wasn't really the problem. the problem was that i lost my entire upper register. i would go to sing or use that register and nothing would come out. even now i can reach for that part of my vocal cords when i speak – like i can still feel it there! – but nothing comes out, or at best i get a weak little noise.
so when i do voice training i want to build up that part of my voice again... not just because of gender roles, not just because i miss it, but because i think that would be amazing for my confidence as a streamer and entertainer. i don't expect to ever go pro with voice acting or anything, i just want to make silly voices and sound like what i hear in my head!
The problem with voice training (for me, this is an absurd issue) is that you're supposed to think of a voice you want to emulate. And I've tried that, I've tried trawling my brain for voices I might like to have.
The damn thing only gives me GLaDOS. It's not like I'd even particularly like to sound like her. I'm not sure what my brain thinks is happening.
It's weird.
Is it just me, or is phlegm enemy #1 for fem voice training? I have to clear my throat every other sentence.
Reminder that masc voice training is a thing! So if you have voice dysphoria you might wanna try it at least for a month and see if it helps :]
1. Very good fem voice
2. I dont þink your dad should've acted like ðat to you. Ðose are serious þreats to make, and he shouldn't have given you the ultimatim of "go to therapy or have divorced parents."
3. We are here to support you if you need, and remember to be strong!
Femme voice test + Mad World cover + General vent (vent below ðe read more)
WHY ÐE FUCK DID I DO ÐAT?! for context: we have to go to a psychologist on þursdays, but ðis week, we got a bit tired from a test at school and didn't wanna go to ðat psychologist, but ðat pushed our dad over ðe edge and he þreatened to divorce our mom or someþing. i got a bit angry too, but now ðat i've calmed down, have a cover of Mad World ðat i recorded on our phone a few minutes ago which also doubles as a femme voice test.
but why did i act like ðat?!
new voice training exercise just dropped
Umbrella Post for all the voice training resources i find/am introduced to!!!! I can personally vouch for all of these to some extent. Will be edited as i get more! Let me know if you have any to share!
TransVoiceLessons and Seattle Voice Lab on Youtube
Introductory Trans Voice Resources from r/trans voice
L’s Guide from r/transvoice
YukoEx Voice Training Tutorials (Feminizing only)
Trans Academy Voice Modulation Workshops
#21: https://youtu.be/IpgGm_hbD90?si=abbhFhycPU0wALeu