Quote from: Hikari on August 20, 2014, 04:06:41 PM
Okay, so I have been passing with this voice, but I still don't like it too much. Any tips or pointers could be helpful.
Also, I am not holding the S, I recorded this on my phone and for some reason the file sounds like that, it sounds just fine on my iPhone. I am not sure what is going on there.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0OopawGzsbq
Your voice sounds pretty close to me. Still, something about it still seemed a bit androgynous/male-in-a-high-register to me. Can you deepen it slightly without going back to your male resonance? I'm thinking specifically of candiFLA's voice tips in her YouTube channel (not sure if you've seen these already), whereby she would start at her former male voice, go up to falsetto, then begin "softening" her voice by applying some pressure to her voicebox with her muscles, and from there she would "soften" it until she slips into a recognisably female register. After finding that register, she would begin lowering her voice again, adding some bass back into it. But because she is still within a female register, it comes off as a passable female voice.
In case you haven't seen her videos, this is a link to one of her many uploads specifically about finding one's female voice, in which she goes between her very different male and female voices:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbaj4tIX1kw&list=UUIUQw0IUKOQYavxmUThdVFQI hope that helps a bit. I think you're close already. There's a lot of variation in female voices. And because you already definitely pass as far as how you look, even if you don't think your voice is completely there yet, I think people will still lean towards correctly gendering you.