Question About Speech Therapy for Voice Feminization

[Icephoenyx]

Hi all, I will be starting vocal feminization with a therapist within the next month and I hope to learn a lot from it of course. However, I am still only living part time, work as a guy but everywhere else pretty much a girl. Since I'm still using my guy voice some of the time, will I be preventing myself from having good results with feminization?

I don't think there's much point if my results will be affected, but I want to get this done with.

Thanks!

Chrissi

[Asfsd4214]

Yes...



Sorry for being so blunt, but yes, I think you will.

In my experience, voice is a use it or loose it deal. You can have both, male and female, but neither will be as good as they would be alone.

[Janet_Girl]

As I got more and more into how my femme voice felt, my mind naturally goes to it now.  I have to think hard to make it go to the old voice.

You may find out the same thing.  I have heard some use the old I caught cold and my voice has never been the same.  Of course you may have to not talk a great deal for a bit to make the ruse work.

[pebbles]

it dose impair it mostly because you often talk without thinking about it. And if you don't know which voice to use alot of your vocal mannerisms will take awhile to switch between the two.

[Colleen Ireland]

I haven't worked with a voice therapist (yet), but I just decided to feminize my voice as much as I can based on what I've read, and just do it, whether I'm presenting as male or not.  So far nobody has given me a weird look or asked me a hard question about it.  I have a life coach with whom I speak on the phone occasionally, and she has heard my old voice, and I've been speaking to her in my female voice (she's fully aware of my condition), and she says I sound pretty good on the phone - not entirely feminine, but if she didn't know who she was speaking to, she might assume it was a woman.  So I guess what I'm saying is that in my experience, you can do quite a lot with your voice and not get clocked...