Coughing/clearing throat/etc

[badsamaritan]

My voice is coming along pretty well, but I have no idea how to make myself sound feminine when coughing, sneezing, clearing my throat, laughing--basically anything aside from straight up, fully premeditated talking. Does anyone know of any resources for that sort of thing? I've googled and found nothing, and all the voice tutorials I find barely cover basic speech, let alone anything else.
Thanks!

[sam79]

I kind of learned all of this myself after a little suggestion from my voice therapist.

Start with throat clearing, which has a definite pitch and sound to it. And it's not too difficult to learn. Between short conversations, keep your throat in the same position used when talking, and try clearing you throat ( you know, that closed-mouth-two-mini-cough kind of clear ). If your voice is in the right shape, it will immediately sound feminine. When that is mastered, coughing basically just needs the same throat position...

For sneezing and laughing, I found that further tightening of the bottom of my throat works best. While sneezing is pretty simple, I've still not mastered laughing, but it's fairly passable.

In fact, I found that doing that throat clearing was beneficial in a couple of ways. First, it got my throat in the right position faster than anything else, and second, it helps to talk with a clear throat. So now I tend to do somewhat regularly out of conversation now just to keep my throat in the right position even while not talking. It works well, and I can break out into conversation at a moments notice .

[pebbles]

It can be done only if you cough lightly Just sort of say "Ahem" then push it abit more and that works but proper full on coughing/choking fits no I can't make those sound female-esq either... Same thing for vomiting, I think the activity is just too intense and to be honest I have other things on my mind then. I'm learning this myself as I think I got a corona virus infection currently. (thought it was a cold but then it went all the way down into my lungs and has given me a viral chest infection.) ...hate winter...

[JLT1]

I kind of learned all of this myself after a little suggestion from my voice therapist.

Start with throat clearing, which has a definite pitch and sound to it. And it's not too difficult to learn. Between short conversations, keep your throat in the same position used when talking, and try clearing you throat ( you know, that closed-mouth-two-mini-cough kind of clear ). If your voice is in the right shape, it will immediately sound feminine. When that is mastered, coughing basically just needs the same throat position...

For sneezing and laughing, I found that further tightening of the bottom of my throat works best. While sneezing is pretty simple, I've still not mastered laughing, but it's fairly passable.

In fact, I found that doing that throat clearing was beneficial in a couple of ways. First, it got my throat in the right position faster than anything else, and second, it helps to talk with a clear throat. So now I tend to do somewhat regularly out of conversation now just to keep my throat in the right position even while not talking. It works well, and I can break out into conversation at a moments notice .

Wow....It works!      Thank You.  That was my biggest problem with my voice.  THANK YOU!

Hugs!

Jen  ( tears of joy)

[JenSquid]

I see myself having a big problem with this due to my allergies.

[Ms Grace]

My big problem is going to be when I get a sore throat, after I get better my voice drops a few octaves for a couple of days. Barry White eat your heart out!

I find that lightly humming to myself can keep my vocal cords limber for unexpected speaking and significantly reduces the need for throat clearing. Being on HRT has also helped reduce whatever causes that throatiness that made it necessary to clear my throat so much.

[badsamaritan]

I kind of learned all of this myself after a little suggestion from my voice therapist.

Start with throat clearing, which has a definite pitch and sound to it. And it's not too difficult to learn. Between short conversations, keep your throat in the same position used when talking, and try clearing you throat ( you know, that closed-mouth-two-mini-cough kind of clear ). If your voice is in the right shape, it will immediately sound feminine. When that is mastered, coughing basically just needs the same throat position...

For sneezing and laughing, I found that further tightening of the bottom of my throat works best. While sneezing is pretty simple, I've still not mastered laughing, but it's fairly passable.

In fact, I found that doing that throat clearing was beneficial in a couple of ways. First, it got my throat in the right position faster than anything else, and second, it helps to talk with a clear throat. So now I tend to do somewhat regularly out of conversation now just to keep my throat in the right position even while not talking. It works well, and I can break out into conversation at a moments notice .

I'll try that, thank you!