Quote from: Dana88 on September 11, 2015, 04:33:54 PM
The second voice sounds great!
The first voice sounds almost like you're putting on a low voice... The second one sounds more natural to me...
Yes - but for the second one I do have to concentrate... weird. If I don't watch it, I will be more in the first voice. And if I try to get into the habit of using a higher pitch, I fall back into the habit of squeezing my voice and then it gets strained.
QuoteYou're used to speaking around there and are still capable so that's where your brain wants to go, and then maybe when you do the exercises your brain realizes you're speaking at the low end of your range? For example, right now I *can* speak at a fundamental frequency of 175/180, but it doesn't feel right and my voice tires really quickly doing it since I'm putting too much pressure on it. Where it *wants* to sit when I just speak without thinking is in that 220-230 range. So maybe you have a little of the same situation?
Yes. I suspected this from the beginning, at 8 weeks, that I am "underusing" my voice in therms of pitch. We did some voice relaxation stuff at the SLT this week. Me lying down, relaxing , then doing some air flow without sound and then adding a bit of sound ot it. Of course its more singing than speaking but in these esercises, I usually come out at either G or A - at the end of them, the G seems to be really low for me and I trend towards the A, although it is in the voice break zone.
But what is even weirder, I can also go almost into my pre OP untrained voice. I can speak in a mode that gives the same average F0 that Dr Kim measured for me pre-OP, with whole words only averaging 115 Hz and the overall Rainbow passage averaging 135 Hz. I did not expect to be able to actually do my pre OP voice again.... apparently for almost everyone else having had VFS, this is impossible... not that it is comfortable to do - I expect this voice only to come out of me when I really dont watch it and have spent a long night at a club with some drinks maybe - for daily, conscious use, the voice comfortably is at the 170-200 Hz range as in the two examples...
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