Quote from: ImagineKate on February 06, 2015, 10:13:33 AM
I had a chance to view voodle's video again with good quality headphones. I can sense a wee bit of resonance in the "old" voice but it really does not sound bad at all. The resonance may be exacerbated by the room acoustics.
Either way I am surprised that the voice would not pass. I do have questions though.
You said you coughed once you woke up because of phlegm. Do they tell you how to prevent this? I'm wondering how exactly they prevent one from "coughing away £7000 surgery result." When they did the follow up, did they see it damaged or something? I'm just wondering if the coughing had something to do with it or if it's just the surgery itself that you weren't happy with.
Haha that particular attempt at sounding like my old voice didn't really work - I found some old recordings actually:
Right before the surgery, tired:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0a8yakZNwoBThree weeks after the surgery, this is why I was disappointed:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1D6FdqlEhpvThree months after the surgery, sounds okay but could sound better:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1b1l3IIdtkNListening to these again really made me appreciate that I should've got some guidance on my voice a lot sooner but I was a really depressed mess throughout 2013 so it didn't happen.
I was reading another woman's blog of her experience at yeson, she had surgery a week or two ago, apparently they give a cough suppressant now. I know that the coughing stretched things BUT we did confirm that my vocal chords had healed up normally (as far as anyone could tell) and that in combination with the botox most likely caused the lackluster pitch increase. Since then though, the botox has long since worn off and my vocal chords have healed up so I can appreciate that my pitch did go up, so I'm slowly getting over my issues with the surgery.
For future reference, if someone is upset about their result from a voice surgery, please tell them to go see a speech therapist rather than telling them they screwed up.
Also I found out last year that a bad coughing fit can make my pitch drop temporarily, but it does go back up (for now haha).