voice practice approaches?

[Annaiyah]

I've been practicing this falsetto thing since the past few days, no tracheal shave yet. Here's the thing: men,usually speak from their chest voice while written usually speak from their head voice. When i hold my hand on my chest, i do feel very little chest vibrations. I feel more vibrations in my neck but my voice is still male, though i could make it sound female if i wanted to, close to female anyway because it isn't perfect.

I do this exercise by bringing my voice into highest falsetto i can take it and then slowly bringing it down to normal, as seen on YouTube.

What i would also do is  inhale deeply and then breath "aaaahhhhhhhh!" from my head voice into the female range, but mind you that's not my normal range yet.

Do you guys know of anymore exercises i can try to bring my voice up into the female range? Are there any methods or techniques that helped you personally?

I do want a sweet-sounding, girly, soft, mousy voice and to sound perfectly like a naturally-born female so i do know it could be a while before i get there. My voice now sounds male but it's luckily it's not too deep and it's kind of robotic sounding.

Advice?

Thanks

[Tessa James]

I am concerned that your helmet could be too tight   Just kidding and couldn't resist.

There are numbers of tutorials and tools for our home practice sessions.

I have had one visit with a speech pathologist who repeatedly had me gargle and spit with admonitions to drink many glasses of water daily.  That's a great idea anyway with this spiro diuresis going on.  He also encouraged me to add a little breath to my voice and avoid the staccato sounding notes.

I have mixed feelings about my voice going forward.  While i want to feel and sound more feminine I also don't want to lose any sense of authenticity.   Our voice is part of what is uniquely us and finding our voice need not mean losing something else?

[suzifrommd]

I do want a sweet-sounding, girly, soft, mousy voice and to sound perfectly like a naturally-born female so i do know it could be a while before i get there. My voice now sounds male but it's luckily it's not too deep and it's kind of robotic sounding.

Advice?

Thanks

I spent a lot of time working on my voice but once I discovered how to do it, it didn't take much time, practice, or exercise. The solution turned out to be pretty simple. I learned it from the Candifla youtube videos.

The trick is to squeeze your voice by raising your Adam's apple a fraction of an inch upward. If you can master this, any voice you use will sound feminine.

I learned how to do this by talking in as high and squeaky voice as I could manage. I paid attention to what I did to my throat in order to make my voice sound that way.

Once I knew how to do that, I no longer needed to talk with a high and squeaky voice. I could speak with a pretty low pitched voice and as long as I squeezed my throat in the same way, it came out feminine.

I pass as a woman everywhere. My voice never gives me away. Good luck Annaiyah. I hope you get where I am.

[Mx Pippa]

I spent a lot of time working on my voice but once I discovered how to do it, it didn't take much time, practice, or exercise. The solution turned out to be pretty simple. I learned it from the Candifla youtube videos.

The trick is to squeeze your voice by raising your Adam's apple a fraction of an inch upward. If you can master this, any voice you use will sound feminine.

I learned how to do this by talking in as high and squeaky voice as I could manage. I paid attention to what I did to my throat in order to make my voice sound that way.

Once I knew how to do that, I no longer needed to talk with a high and squeaky voice. I could speak with a pretty low pitched voice and as long as I squeezed my throat in the same way, it came out feminine.

I pass as a woman everywhere. My voice never gives me away. Good luck Annaiyah. I hope you get where I am.

For me CandiFLA has the most "sweet-sounding, girly, soft, mousy voice which sounds perfectly like a naturally-born female" ever. She is just magic. I found her just over a year ago when my hypo voice therapist put me onto her. My big problem has been in the transition. As soon as I confront someone, I revert back to my male voice. If your still there Suzi any advice on that? You really seem to have it beat, so it's a bridge you must have crossed.

As for my Voice Practice Approach Annaiyah, I use a combination of CandiFLA and Kathe Perez (Exceptional  Voice.com). With Kathe Perez a frequency tuner comes in handy, if you're not a musician; they are used to tune guitars and are quite cheap to buy. One exercise is to find A3 and just practice saying "He" "Ha" and "Who" I do them all the time, under my breath walking down the road, quite often someone says good morning to me and out pops a reply in my fem voice.  But there are other exercises to numerous to method you really need to buy her CD.

As Suzi has already said, you can gain loads from typing "CandiFLA" into Google, she must be well up over 50 videos now. Here's a link to one of my favourite ones from her early 2008 days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s7qSJ19f_QU

[suzifrommd]

As soon as I confront someone, I revert back to my male voice. If your still there Suzi any advice on that? You really seem to have it beat, so it's a bridge you must have crossed.

You know, Pippa, it's odd, but this was never an issue for me. When I was in guy mode I always talked like a guy, and when I was in girl mode, I always used my girl voice. I always imagined I'd slip up, especially given how absent minded I am, but it only happened once or twice, and hasn't happened in many months.

Part of it is that I REALLY love my female voice - for a while it was the one part of myself that I was truly happy with, so like a cherished lover, I wanted to spend as much time with it as possible. Whenever I was going somewhere as Suzi, I would practice in the car, so that I would be ready.

It's much easier now that I'm full time. It's just what comes out of my mouth.

Don't know that this helps much, but it's how I did it.

[Annaiyah]

I am very familiar with CandiFLA's YouTube tutorials on getting a female voice. Also, i also happen to follow Natalie Sweetwine on YouTube. Look her up and listen to her male and female voice. OMG, she sounds amazing! Both her voices sound like two different people. I want s voice like hers. CandiFLA is a mater as well.

My only problem is that I'm still living with my mom and so practicing my female voice will be a little embarrassing so i need to wait until she leaves the house.

By moving the Adams Apple upward, do i do that with my fingers? Or just getting to my female range when practicing my voice? Also, will these practices shrink my vocal chords in the way that women have thinner and shorter vocal folds than men?

Even as tempting and promising as Yeson sounds, i promised myself I'd only turn to surgery as a last resort so I'm eager to see how all this pans out.

Thanks for the advice guys.