Tell us about your voice

[Ephemeral]

Maybe an interesting sticky subject? Essentially record yourself and your voice and ask for input or just to show-off. We already have threads of this nature but they tend to focus on the visual i.e. face, but one of the more significant differences when one starts testosterone is not the face but the voice!

I'll go first because I wanted some input anyway. This is my voice progression over 4 months and 2 weeks on T:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s06tdtLm3gxO

[Bearr]

Wow! Huge difference. I like the accent.
The two do not sound anything a like. The first sounds female. And the second sounds male.

[Ephemeral]

Wow! Huge difference. I like the accent.
The two do not sound anything a like. The first sounds female. And the second sounds male.

I have a hard time hearing my own accent. I wonder if it sounds awfully Swedish or not. I too think I am starting to finally approach a definite male range though I still sometimes get read as female over the phone. Would really like to hear other guys upload theirs too. I can hear differences even between just one month from now, so I hope it will continue to drop further.

And on the plus side, I am actually beginning to really like my own voice. I always thought it sounded awful as female and I always pictured myself in a male range even as a teenager so I remember I was so disappointed when I heard a recording of my voice and it wasn't male.

[Bearr]

I'm sure it will drop more, it usually does up to a year or even more. Depends on the person.

Usually you can't tell hearing your own voice, but there is a big difference already. Congrats

[Blue Senpai]

I've been told it's androgynous and somewhere between male and female.
I'm currently pre-testosterone.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1wPwArIC8Zm

[MrJ]

Ephemeral, sounds great! Definitely a change.

Blue Senpai, sounds androgynous to me too. Is that rapping? I know nothing about rap.  It's just when your voice goes up at the ends of sentences that sounds female to me.

I've recorded some voice clips. I've been on testosterone for just over 3 years, and my voice dropped FAST. This is how much it changed in the first 40 days:
https://soundcloud.com/rex1983/timeline40days/s-UBMI2

This is my voice right at this second:
https://soundcloud.com/rex1983/testing-1/s-TrJB0

The hardest part for me with the voice change is that I was a good singer before my voice changed. This is how I sounded pre-T:
https://soundcloud.com/rex1983/who-wants-to-live-forever-jenny-jackson

This is me singing a couple of months ago:
https://soundcloud.com/rex1983/ive-been-r-j-may-24-next-to-normal

I think transitioning may have ended any possibility of performing musical theatre professionally, but I still really love my male voice.

[Blue Senpai]

Yes, it was rapping. I don't have the voice for it right now (female voices aren't exactly good for it) but I can rap fast.
Wow, that voice did drop fast after a month! I already sound like someone that's been on testosterone for 3-4 weeks.

[wheat thins are delicious]

Pre-T:  http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/dustyshakleford/media/vid/pre-tvoice_zpsb4ccb249.mp4.html

Right Now: http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/dustyshakleford/media/vid/TVideo_00002_zpsf278b822.mp4.html

Couldn't get vocaroo to work to record my voice now so I made a video of myself speaking just now.  I only had a video of my voice from before/the day I started T.  Idk why I said I was one day on T when I really had only had a shot.  If I could go back and do it over again I would, but I only made a few months worth of videos and then stopped recording my voice. 

MrJ, your second link doesn't work. 

[MrJ]

MrJ, your second link doesn't work.

Does it work now? I was editing the link to make it private.

I can't get yours to work. They're just black boxes.

[wheat thins are delicious]

I think the reason it's not working is because you made it private. 

I was trying to have mine be videos in the thread but took that out and just added links to the two videos.  Hopefully they work now. 

[MrJ]

The first one is private too, but it's working? I'm not sure why the second one won't work. Through soundcloud, you can get a special URL to share a private track, that's what I did for the first two links.

Blue Senpai, do you mind removing the quote of me? The links are wrong, I edited the post.

wheat thins, your links work now. Wow, what a change! I thought you sounded like a young male pre-T but your post-T is totally different!

[Hex]

Hope video is alright.
My first day of T: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2pmfawjpnrph69r/2014-02-11%20%20First.mp4
(Bonus, my husband laughing like a maniac in the background)

Little over 2 months: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ai4o3g4t0rwakvt/04-31-14_seventh.mp4

And tonight at a little over 4.5 months: https://www.dropbox.com/s/641eoid4n5ywcql/20140628_212441.mp4
(Did this real quick tonight)

[MrJ]

Definitely some changes, Hex - sounds good! Also, are you playing Second Life? That was the first online environment I played a male character in (other than the Sims, ha ha), but I never had the patience to figure out how it worked. The graphics have definitely improved.

[Ephemeral]

Fun stuff! Blue Senpai, my initial impression of your voice was that you sounded male but I think it's because you speak with a male speech pattern. MrJ, how long have you been on T? You're right that maybe you won't be able to sing professionally anymore but it depends on how far you go in how you drop etc. But yes, that resonance isn't really what is considered attractive or sought after professionally but I think it depends on what you want to sing too. I know of this guy from a band I'm a fan of who manage to make it work and now I can't imagine them without him despite that his voice is far from attractive but it's the quirk that adds that particular effect that just fits somehow:



I was told I had a good singing voice too pre-T but I think my voice actually sounds much better now on T. My resonance fits a male voice so much better than female and I am quite curious how my voice will sound like when singing once it has settled.

MrJ, I got inspired and want to record a song where I sang too so here it is:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1RfP3ESBMNZ

I wish it wouldn't crack so much when I try higher pitches though.

[Ryan55]

i'm pretty jealous ephemeral lol you sound like a guy

heres my recording, one month on T, so still waiting on the damn voice to drop

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1t4UqOiwXWW

edit: found this from when I was pre T, I can hear the difference now lol http://vocaroo.com/i/s1dCEOuc0QXB

[Ephemeral]

i'm pretty jealous ephemeral lol you sound like a guy

heres my recording, one month on T, so still waiting on the damn voice to drop

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1t4UqOiwXWW

What are you complaining about Ryan? o.O Sounds perfectly fine to me. Is a little high at times but I wouldn't think about if I didn't know you weren't trans.

[spacerace]

I ramped up really slowly dosage wise, and I am still not on a full dose yet:

4 months in:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0FNqj5OnGDw

Today (~9 months in):

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1pknvZn1nQD

In hindsight, I thought it was much deeper than it was before it really started dropping.

[Ryan55]

wow space, there is such a difference from 4 months and 9 months

[Hex]

Mr. J I am playing Second life in the vids. Been an on and off again player since 2006. Used to be more into it now just kinda hang and do whatever most days lol

[Ryan55]

Mr. J I am playing Second life in the vids. Been an on and off again player since 2006. Used to be more into it now just kinda hang and do whatever most days lol

I have a second life avi dude also hex, whats your name on there, I'll add you to my friends whenever I'm on it