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cymoril

June 06, 2016, 02:02:06 AM
I have found it very difficult to retrain voice so I sound more feminine.  I have a voice- pitch analyzer on my phone, and when it registers my voice I always seem to hit ~210Hz.  My voice registers ~ 225 now.  But when I record my voice it sounds horrible, and very manlike.  What can I do to make my voice more feminine?  Please help!!!  Thanks:)
Don't really know what to write here...  So I'll just write a little about myself.  For conciseness, I am a 48 y/o pre-op transsexual who's in a wheelchair.  I'm wheelchair bound due to AVN(avascular necrosis) which took three and a half inches from my right femur and I acquired due to HIV.  I got infected by the first man I was ever with.  So, after spending 40+ years in Texas and getting three felonies, I decided to move to San Francisco.
  I got here in 2010 and continued to drug myself until something happened...  I don't remember exactly what happened, but I do know I did something to ease my pain, which didn't help and I ended up in the ER.  After that, mind you I could still walk, barely, I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis.  Immediately I was sent to a hospital in really bad shape.  I was addicted to a copious amount of drugs and weighed less than 90lbs.  I was near death.  I spent two and a half years in hospital, quit drugs, got my own place and am doing quite well.
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Ms Grace

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June 06, 2016, 02:31:29 AM
Over the phone and recordings are the hardest, somehow they just pick up the resonance or something. I think most people hear our voice differently in a face to face situation. I'm still not sure how my voice sounds, it was never that masculine to begin with but had enough "deep" in it to usually make it unmistakably male on the phone.
Grace
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Transition 1.0 (Julie): HRT 1989-91
Self-denial: 1991-2013
Transition 2.0 (Grace): HRT June 24 2013
Full-time: March 24, 2014 :D
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cymoril

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June 06, 2016, 03:07:54 AM
Thank you.  What you said really helped.  I am just taken aback by what it takes to go thru this transition.  It's one thing to look on from the outside, but it's totally different when you're going thru it.  Living as a woman.  Ya know what I mean?  No matter what difficulties I've been thru in my life and whatever difficulties I will face, I will never, never detransition.  I never want to be that guy ever again.  Trust me.  So, I guess I got a little tangential.  I have a tendency to ramble.  It would be nice if we could rap with each other every now and then.  Take care.  Steph
Don't really know what to write here...  So I'll just write a little about myself.  For conciseness, I am a 48 y/o pre-op transsexual who's in a wheelchair.  I'm wheelchair bound due to AVN(avascular necrosis) which took three and a half inches from my right femur and I acquired due to HIV.  I got infected by the first man I was ever with.  So, after spending 40+ years in Texas and getting three felonies, I decided to move to San Francisco.
  I got here in 2010 and continued to drug myself until something happened...  I don't remember exactly what happened, but I do know I did something to ease my pain, which didn't help and I ended up in the ER.  After that, mind you I could still walk, barely, I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis.  Immediately I was sent to a hospital in really bad shape.  I was addicted to a copious amount of drugs and weighed less than 90lbs.  I was near death.  I spent two and a half years in hospital, quit drugs, got my own place and am doing quite well.
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starting_anew

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June 06, 2016, 11:43:20 AM
Hey, just wanted to say that the mind is incredible in terms of the tricks it can play on you.  If your voice is registering in those ranges, it might just be that *you* are hearing remnants of your old voice, and that others simply hear a woman's voice.

I used to question (all the time) whether my voice was passing, and even though I'm still extremely self-conscious about my appearance, my voice is something I've realized passes really well and has stopped freaking me out.  I realized I was probably just being ridiculous.  It just takes a while to accept the new you, and realize that you sound/look way better than you actually think you do.

My voice, post-transition, sounds like this, and yes I used to believe until recently that it still sounded horrible/masculine (I don't anymore, so I'm definitely not fishing for nice/kind words:)):
http://vocaroo.com/i/s04My2bQWCJv




SRS: September 2017
Partial FFS: February 2019
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CrysC

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June 07, 2016, 12:01:20 AM
The main thing is to think in your female voice.  You can't think in the old male voice if you ever did.  The human body is amazing.  You ask it to make a noise and it does.  Relax your throat, speak in your woman's voice and talk like a woman.  There is so much to sounding like a woman beyond just pitch. 

I encourage you to get voice therapy if you can.  I found it very useful.  One key trick is using 'light' tones vs 'dark' tones.  A light tone would be like when you talk when you are happy.  Do a recording where you pretend you won the lottery then another where your favorite goldfish died and do both at the same pitch.  The sad tone is a darker tone.  The happy is lighter.  At least this helped me. 

good luck sweetie.  It took me a lot of practice.  You need to work on it daily.
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