Quote from: Seras on November 13, 2014, 10:24:05 PM
Hi, sounds pretty good. I think your voice has a good tone to it. I don't trust the formant thing in PRAAT though. It seems wonky (it seems to measure my normal male voice F3 at ~2900-3000), but your resonance is good for sure. Since despite the relatively low pitch I think the tone makes you sound better than my significantly higher pitched recording.
I think if you could pull up your pitch even a little it might sound better, so long as you do so strain free, but I do not think you necessarily need to, to me at least it sounds feminine for sure.
Thanks! I had a chance to listen to yours, I personally like the one from the 6th, since it sounds more natural, and yes you definitely have a higher pitch than me. It might have just been the way you recorded, but I feel like you're voice didn't have a lot of force behind it. But definitely very female if you ask me.
I feel like a combination of the reliability of Praat and my lack of knowledge/experience with the software and analysis of voices in general may have skewed the results I got. I also got a similar, but slightly lower mean resonance than my speaking voice when I tried to drop my voice down to ~120 Hz. I don't have old recordings to be sure, but I think that's about where my voice started. It does feel really strange trying to lower my voice.
I feel like it's really hard to listen to your own voice, even in a recording. Always helpful to get feedback