Can't do female voice please help!!

[Ataraxia]

I have been practicing for the past two days, for a total of at least two hours and my voice still seems like that of a man. It seems pretty hopeless at this point. I have taken all of the bass out of my voice (no vibration in my chest) and I am pretty sure my tone is above the female threshold (120Hz). And it still just sounds like a man trying to sound like a woman. I do not see how much more practicing can help as I have been doing it a long time and still do not sound like a girl. I feel like there's something wrong with my voice that it is impossible to do a female voice. Should I just give up and stick with my man voice, or should I invest in getting voice surgery?

[Beverly]

I have been practicing for the past two days, for a total of at least two hours and my voice still seems like that of a man. It seems pretty hopeless at this point. I have taken all of the bass out of my voice (no vibration in my chest) and I am pretty sure my tone is above the female threshold (120Hz). And it still just sounds like a man trying to sound like a woman.

It takes lots of practice. Most people take a minimum of THREE MONTHS not two days.

I do not see how much more practicing can help as I have been doing it a long time and still do not sound like a girl.

Post a sample in the Voice Therapy forum and get some advice there.

I feel like there's something wrong with my voice that it is impossible to do a female voice. Should I just give up and stick with my man voice, or should I invest in getting voice surgery?

You have not given yourself any near enough practice. I know someone who got voice surgery and all it did was raise her pitch and reduce her chest resonance - both of which you say you have already done.  What voice surgery cannot do is to change your word choice, your inflection or your breathing and these all count for a lot of the female voice. Nor can voice surgery give you head resonance.

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[spacial]

Or you could just accept it as it is. It's personality that counts. Lots of women have very deep voices.

[Anna++]

It takes lots of practice. Most people take a minimum of THREE MONTHS not two days.

I've heard it usually takes around six.  I've been working on mine on and off for about three, and I think I can hear some improvement (but I wonder how much of that is just wishful thinking).  I know I need lots more practice...

Search youtube, there are lots of howto videos that have been posted.  Good luck!

[Stephe]

I have been practicing for the past two days, for a total of at least two hours and my voice still seems like that of a man. It seems pretty hopeless at this point.

It took me 7-8 months with 1 hour a day "practice". Plus was living full time and practiced in my car etc so was more like 4-5 hours a day. And I had bi weekly voice therapy sessions with a professional speech therapist before my voice sounded really female. 2 hours of practice isn't even close to the towel throwing in point. I spent more time than that just learning how to breath correctly

[Ataraxia]

Or you could just accept it as it is. It's personality that counts. Lots of women have very deep voices.

Are you sure that's an option? I hear that voice is the one thing that could give you away immediately.

Here are samples of my voice that I put on the voice critic thread. One with all bass removed as I know is necessary to sound female, and one with less effort to remove bass but still attempting to sound female.

no bass:
https://soundcloud.com/cutiecat/catherine-no-bass

some bass:
https://soundcloud.com/cutiecat/somebasscatherine

[Stephe]

Are you sure that's an option?

Here are samples of my voice that I put on the voice critic thread.

No it's not really an option unless you want everyone to know you are trans. Which is fine just be aware when you open your mouth (and if you visually pass) it really throws people off kilter. On your samples, the first is simply falsetto. That doesn't work. The second one isn't -rea-l bad considering the short period of time you have been working on this.

[Zumbagirl]

It's just practice practice practice! I can say it took me a good maybe 5 months an I was training  for at least a couple hours a day and had a small tape recorder with me so I could repeat things over and over. I just remember one day having the eureka moment when I played back a tape and was stunned that it was me talking I found that getting the voice in the right range is one part and getting the inflections down is something different that only comes from experience (time with the new voice).

[Beverly]

I just remember one day having the eureka moment when I played back a tape and was stunned that it was me talking

Oh yes - I remember that as well. Pitch helps, but inflection / intonation was the key for me. Once I learned to open my mouth more (so as to mumble less) and pronounce my syllables more clearly then I was doing much better.