Well, at week 2, I could barely use the voice to make these words really, so I cannot really compare the effort. Basically both are low effort, but of course in my current voice I do use more projection and resonance and volume - back then this was impossible and I had not enough word allowance on a day to try anything - nor was it allowed. So I just managed to somehow say hello twice, it was barely audible, it was creaky, hoarse, low in pitch - horrible. I just decided to not ever use those two word allowance again and wait until week 5 before I try again.
By that time It was starting to flip between good and very hoarse and broken - pitch went up and down a bit, I had pitch control issues in the beginning, sounding like I exaggerate my intonations because the same muscle control would increase my pitch twice as much as before, so that sounded silly.
I think it took me until about week 8 to somewhat stabilize into a more or less permanently breathy but more stable in pitch voice.
Whats fascinating is that my voice was on some of the early days much clearer than ever since - I guess that was when the Botox still acted - when it was ending to act at month 4, I was getting hoarse and more breathy and had more issues with the voice breaking. Recovery from that still goes on with the Clonazepam and voice therapy and all of that...
