A month after I started using my fem voice full time, I tried to boymode while traveling. I found that I simply couldn't use a masculine voice in front of people anymore, and that despite wearing masculine clothing and not shaving for a week (I have little facial hair), I was still repeatedly gendered female. I've basically given up ever trying to do a masc voice now.
"Heat from fire, fire from heat" is like a spell to feminize your voice. I've found "I don't like them putting chemicals in the water to turn the freaking frogs gay" works in the opposite direction. Try it if you're scared.
That’s cool! I have a friend in a similar position, she insists that she can still boy mode, despite her “boy mode” voice sounding like when a voice actress dubs a barely pubescent boy. At her previous workplace her coworkers got a kick out of every stranger correctly assuming she was a girl and “correcting” them. Tho hearing her story made me feel a lot less anxious about my boy mode, like I don’t need to hide as much.
At her previous workplace her coworkers got a kick out of every stranger correctly assuming she was a girl and “correcting” them.
What the fuck?? Is there something I am missing or is this as insanely transphobic as it sounds?
My wording is a bit confusing, sorry about that.
Her coworkers thought she was a man because she insisted she wasn’t trans when she started working there, she still had M on her ID, so she thought it would be easier to boy mode. They thought she was a femboy while strangers just saw her as is.
Ahh that's way less bad haha thanks for clarifying!
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.
Wow, really? From the few transfems that I know IRL, I didn't think such a change is possible. Thank you for sharing 💜
I've read about some being happy to have such a large range of voices after voice training, mainly for theatrical purposes. But I can see how with lack of training, one can get unused to their old voice...
For comparison, when did you start voice training / adjusting your voice? It's sometimes hard to judge your own voice, but did you consider it androgynous before?
Yeah, it's a training/use thing. When I was training my voice back in the day, I could still do my old voice, but I had to consciously stop and think about it and try to remember how to do it.
oh we probably started about a year and some change ago. we did not implement any real change in our daily habits until a while later, i.e. a few months ago. kinda did it subconsciously when meowing at randoms over proximity chat in video games lol
we very much did sound masculine prior. not like super deep manly (we are more young and testosterone was nowhere close to running its full course) but certainly like a guy, we definitely didn't pass. thank you for asking, we so appreciate it!!
I've a naturally large range of voices so it's easier on the pitch for me, but resonance is still difficult. That said, I've been working on it!
Voice training can do a lot!
I've notice I can't sing with a voice as deep as before. And doing my old voice is starting to be harder.
I haven't found my feminine voice yet. But my voice changed in a more androgynous way. (No by itself though through conscient effort).
I am at the same place currently :)
Still deciding, where I want to go with it. I love both Abigail Thorne and Jamie Clayton's voices so I might aim for something in that direction <3
As you've discovered if your resonance is good you can speak at a low pitch and still sound like a woman :)
Worst case you'll need to train for a bit if you want your male voice back in the future. But I think it's a good thing! Presumably you're going to want to go femme full-time at some point, and you don't want to accidentally make a clocky noise if you're startled or not concentrating.
here is my i really idk what to say but here is some "i dont know what to say" in russian
checking voice on english is a little bit cheat because they sound diffrently
im never voice trained, should im train is?
If you have voice dysphoria, yes.
idk doesnt, but the voice pass or not?
There are some qualities that will probably be perceived as more masculine, but it sounds good!
I'm hearing what some people call brassiness or buzziness, which can be targeted in voice training with a quotient slide exercise.
If you'd like to go a step further and work on vocal fry in general, the gee-heh exercise can help with that.
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you sound more like a girl than not!! :D
the english part, most english speakers would focus more on the accent, but it sounds definitely not like a guy, still maybe androgynous? certainly feminine leaning a little. but that wouldn't be what they focus on. the russian part does sounds rather femme though!!
what we would say (at least for english) is to try to make a higher pitch towards the end of the sentence, like asking a question but not quite reaching there. here is an example of our voice in english: https://voca.ro/11bM00n99Z0n (a lower pitch ending first, higher pitch second)
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By the late Roman Republic, Old Latin had evolved into standardised Classical Latin.
(first sentence of second paragraph of this wikipedia page)
that aside though if we saw and talked to you in public we would mostly think "very cute pretty girl" hehe
also u have pretty voice
we needed that this morning TYSMMM <33 ljakshfdlkjasdhf
wao tyyy
especcially cool than im never voice trained, voice just didnt broke
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