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feel really weird not being able to do a masc voice anymore (self.mtf)
submitted 6 days ago by kivihiili to c/mtf
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circa half a day ago indigo made a post about their own voice, and that prompted us to open the voice analysis software and see what ours is like. so we just recorded a brief little sample and the pitch analysis showed 223 hz. we then went "huh, that seems a little more than we'd expect" and... turns out it was right.

so we tried talking while trying to put in as little effort as possible. and wouldn't you know it, it did not change at all, in fact it went up to 231 hz.

so we tried to make our voice lower. not really going for a masc voice but only lower, just because we were curious. and uh 182 hz, and still sounding so much like a girl!

so we tried to go for the most masc voice we could, like an announcer at a nascar race. and... 143 hz and still sounding androgynous.

(typical average pitch ranges)

there is not much consensus on this, but here is one regimen for spoken english:

  • "female": 155 hz and up
  • "androgynous": 135 hz to 165 hz
  • "male": below 145 hz

(the software we use is praat)

our point is that like we can barely do a masculine voice and even then can hardly sustain it.

don't be mistaken, we really love being able to just sound like a girl! but the loss of that ability has felt a little... frightening? not sure of the best way to put it. maybe its the realization that we are going to have to fully commit to female presenting, no matter what happens?

hope that regardless of what does happen we'll manage to find some way through it.

take care <3

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[-] AllukaTheCutie7725 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah I feel that. If I try to do a masc voice now I just sound like a girl trying to make herself sound masc. Doesn't really bother me that much though. I don't have any desire to ever sound like a boy ever again.

this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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