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[Ashley_wolf]

Hey everyone I'm working with my councillor to possibly start hormones in a month or so but I have a few questions and I'm just waiting some nice feed back. I'm nervous I won't be able to change my voice. How do I get the best results? Also what has been everyone's experience been with looking more feminine while on hrt? I am supper excited to have boobs too! But my mom was a big DD and her mom was bigger than her. Does anyone have any pictures of what changes they have had possitive feed back? Hugs y'all

[thewitchoforigins]

I'm not a trans woman, but I do know about the breast changes. Seeing as your mom and grandmother have big boobs, you'll probably get them too! I know a few friends (that are trans women) who got c cup breasts with hormones alone, no supplements or breast growth pills. Good luck with your transition !


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[thewitchoforigins]

Also a YouTuber named stef sanjati has videos documenting how hormones affected her month by month! Those may be helpful


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[Ashley_wolf]

What is the best advice to changer your voice?

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[Sophia Sage]

What is the best advice to changer your voice?

It's a matter of retraining it, and it's usually very difficult.

There are three things to consider -- your baseline pitch, your musicality, and your resonance or timbre.

Pitch is the "note" or "frequency" of your vocalizations.  Female average is 220Hz, or A3 in the musical scale.  You don't want your voice to drop below 160hz, and it'd be great to reach peaks of 330Hz or more.  To ascertain your pitch, seek out some computer software like Gram or some apps -- search for "voice frequency apps."  Some of the apps will show you where your pitch is right away; others will analyze a recording, like a WAV file or an MP3.  I recommend recording your voice, in 10 to 30 second clips, so you can hear it as its played back.  This will likely make you dysphoric, so be gentle with yourself, but the feedback is very important so you can ascertain how well you're hitting the higher notes and avoiding the lower notes.

Musicality is a technique of varying the pitch of your voice through your sentences and paragraphs.  Listen to other women talk -- women tend to use higher pitches for emphasis, while men tend to use a louder volume for the same effect.  You can find clips of women having conversations on YouTube.  Practice varying your pitch in the same way your "voice model" does, going sentence by sentence.  With enough practice, this becomes natural.

Resonance or Timbre is the "quality" of your voice, and has to do with where the sounds you make resonate in your body.  Men's voices tend to resonate in the lower throat and chest; women's voices tend to resonate in the upper throat and in the head.  To "raise" your resonance takes some advanced practice.  I constrict certain muscles around my larynx to pull it up away from my chest and towards my tongue.  The muscle I'm primarily activating to do this feels like it starts in the back of my tongue and runs down the front of my throat to the larynx.  Simply closing your mouth somewhat, and gently raising your tongue in the back of your throat can have a similar effect.

It took me six months of practice to "find" my voice, and several months after that to lock it in.  I practiced an hour a day, 3 to 5 days a week.  Listening to the recordings was always the worst part of it. 

Very best of luck,
Sophie