Is there an (free) IOS that can help me with my voice to see what my range is and if its in female range?
Quote from: AmandaMarie on January 08, 2015, 08:07:20 PM
Is there an (free) IOS that can help me with my voice to see what my range is and if its in female range?
I haven't seen any free ones. There are not that many that actually measure pitch of human voice. The cheapest one I've come across an use is "Voice Analyst" By Speech Tools Limited and it costs $17.99. I've used it and it works, but sometimes chops the end off the recording, but you can save recording and compare and it gives your average pitch. There were a few other ones I came across, but they were $49 and up.
There is an open source program called Praat, that works really well (but has a confusing interface, but it's easy once you get used to it.) Praat works in OSX, Windows, and Linux. There is a tutorial here (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php?topic=150142.0) and here (http://www.
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Ohh and here is a table to go by
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyspeechandvoicelab.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F07%2Fpitch-chart-image.jpg&hash=97c90873e378af777d3b5e46ee0f153b6a0d993a)
If you can keep your average in the 195 Hz range, your doing pretty good.
insTuner. It's free and good. It's for measuring pitch. Oops... it used to be free. Now it isn't :(. Still, just $4 and I can vouch for it, and there is a free version of it, I presume with ads. Maybe try that one first.
http://eumlab.com/instuner/ (http://eumlab.com/instuner/)
There is a voice lesson app that is also not free, but reasonably priced if it works... idk. Ofc there are several modules and it can add up:
http://exceptionalvoiceapp.com/about/aboutkatheperez/
(http://exceptionalvoiceapp.com/about/aboutkatheperez/)
I have never used it, so I can't say whether it's good or bad from personal experience. I just have heard about it.
Thank you Sydney. I downloaded it and fiddled with it. I already don't like hearing myself speak because of my speech impairment, but at least this this give me something to fiddle with.
Quote from: AmandaMarie on January 09, 2015, 12:14:39 AM
Thank you Sydney. I downloaded it and fiddled with it. I already don't like hearing myself speak because of my speech impairment, but at least this this give me something to fiddle with.
Your welcome :)
I can totally relate to you. When I was younger I grew up with 2 languages (German and English) and somehow developed a stutter. It took me several years to get over it, but I always had a difficult time with pronunciation. One of my challenges speaking as a women was to pronunciate each letter more and that has improved dramatically to where now I don't mind hearing my voice so much. Also slowing down, but that's from my step-father who encouraged me to do that because his a native New Yorker and Italian. When I moved from NC to NYC area (the first time) he said I talked to slow for the north and pushed me into talking faster. That works against having a feminine voice when you end up running your words together.
I've been using my guitar tuner app. It's called gstrings and is available free on android, not sure if it's available for IOS though. It works really well for me. :)
I've heard Pitchlabs is a good free app on Android. I've tried to use it, but I can't. Plus, I'm not to worried about my voice anymore.
I found a free app called OperaVoxLite
I found an ios app called Eva breathe and pitch there not free I think $4.99 each with maybe 5 stages of different apps breath pitch 1,2,3,4 I can't remember how many Eva pitch. Eva is exceptional voice app designed by or with a speech therapist Kathy Perez. I've been looking at another program called praat right now then I was gonna research the Eva app of iTunes and try to pick one myself. Praat has good reviews I think Eva does to the speech therapist who designed it made it specifically for transgender patients and she does online clinics for those who buy it that's all I know about it so far.
After reading this thread I remembered I had a guitar tuner I found for free at Google Play store for my Android tablet "Pitch Lab Lite," tried it and lo and behold, it did give pitch readings.
Best to all!
There are quite a few voice pitch monitor apps for android but not many supporting iOS (https://tutuappx.com/download/) (no idea why maybe less demand or whatever).
But anyways here's few of them I found:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/voice-training-learn-to-sing/id894620096?mt=8
https://itunes.apple (https://show-box.ooo/).com/us/app/vocal-pitch-monitor/id842218231?mt=8
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/voice-training-learn-to-sing/id894620096?mt=8
Hope it helps :)
I'd caution against obsessing too much over pitch. Realistically, the higher you can go, the better, but you'll be able to feel if it's taking undue effort, and in this sense, you don't really need these fancy pitch apps. In most cases, glottoplasty would be needed to be really consistently happy with the pitch (i.e. always in or close to female average pitch range.)
But in a practical sense, and especially if you're older, your pitch can actually be fairly low and still sound female, especially if your prosody is varied enough (upwards inflections, etc.) It's also possible to be very high pitched and still sound male (Ross Matthews, anyone?)
More focus on larynx placement and vowel formation. If you studied the pitch range of female voice actors (Kate Mulgrew) you'd be floored at how incredibly low they can go and still sound female, while rarely even entering the average female pitch range. That's because they have these two traits down solid.
Battles of "well i'm 150hz and shooting for 200hz" are kind of a moot point compared to this.