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Title: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: blossom on March 22, 2016, 05:30:20 PM
I'm clueless as to how you do it.
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: KayXo on March 22, 2016, 09:39:23 PM
The same way you speak as female.
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: V M on March 22, 2016, 09:55:00 PM
I don't know either but apparently I've always laughed and sneezed "like a girl" and have often been teased about it
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: DanielleA on March 22, 2016, 10:20:11 PM
Rather than people saying I have a female way of sneezing ect. They usually say that I have a really polite way of sneezing. I am not saying that all males do this but I have noticed that the guys around me are really loud about their body motions. Like clearing their throats, it is almost offensive hearing them hucking their guts up. Eww.
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: Serenation on March 22, 2016, 10:33:36 PM
Keep pitch high, be gentle, be elegant.  :angel:

For anyone wanting the Alpha Male opposite advice, prolong as much as possible ,sound gutteral like a wounded T-REX then spit gunk on the ground or wipe it on a wall. Try to channel your inner slimer from ghost busters  :D
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: suzifrommd on March 23, 2016, 06:44:28 AM
My laugh is sort of like a giggle. My sneeze, I try to keep voice out of it. It ends up sounding like an extended hiss.
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: warlockmaker on March 23, 2016, 08:33:33 AM
Hi Blossom.  In our voice pitch we use the resonance in our head cavity and release the sound from the front of our mouth. This way we don't strain to create a high pitch and sound like Mickey mouse. We do not let our voice drop to the diaphragm below the throat. This same principal is used for a cough or sneeze we don't let the sound drops below our throat or it will sound guttural, keep it shallow. Have you looked at some voice tutorials on the internet?
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: blossom on March 23, 2016, 07:22:24 PM
Hi again Warlockmaker :) I have tried Andrea James' voice materials, but didn't have much success. I have looked into telephone voice training and have found that Andrea James does it and so does a website called Moorea Music. I've not tried the telephone training yet.
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: shoko on April 02, 2016, 09:14:41 PM
Does throat clearing and coughing sound different after VFS?
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: shiningnate on April 08, 2016, 11:42:11 PM
Most "cute" sneezes are high-pitched and kind of sound like the person sneezing is actually saying "achoo". Try saying "pikachu" in a cute voice and replicate the last syllable when you sneeze.
Title: Re: How do you cough or laugh or sneeze as a female?
Post by: Cindy on April 09, 2016, 02:51:25 AM
To be honest I think you may be over thinking things. I have women I work with who sound like a foghorn when they sneeze and men who barely give a splutter.

Bit like laughing, I have one woman who I'm sure I can hear laughing from half a mile a way.