I should be starting mtf voice therapy with a specialist soon. The lady is currently on maternity leave but hopefully back within the next month or two. She comes highly recommended by my therapist and another one of my friends who went.
But while obviously working towards a female voice is the priority, would it be possible to change my accent at the same time? Currently have I guess an Irish accent. Not very pronounced tbh. One doesn't think potatoes when I speak. And now and then people ask if I'm English. But is it even possible to say, have an American accent as my default female voice. One which I'd hope to use for life and it to just come out naturally? Or Australian or anything for that matter.
Just curious. Not too keen on the Irish accent.
Anyone can pick up a new accent, though I see lots of people dropping their learned RP accent when they are not thinking so I would guess that it might help to make the mental link between talking as a woman and talking in the accent you want if it isn't just for like business purposes.
I have to admit this thought has crossed my mind lots as someone wgo is a fan of RP but never trained myself to speak it.
I used to have a very strong regional accent from a corner of the British Isles, but even before female voice training I managed to lose the regionalisation. When I reveal my origins to people there is a look of disbelief that I once came from there and a look of total amazement when I prove it by speaking to them with the accent I grew up with. My SO laments the fact that I rarely speak in my former accent as she quite likes it. When I talk now and again with people I grew up with I can easily slip back to the old accent. So it is entirely possible to 'lose' your current regional accent if you try to and also to go back to it should you want as well.
I am currently trying to strengthen my female voice and I am learning it with my RP-esque English accent. It's more of a challenge for me to try to speak with my female voice in Chinese.
I learned a few accents due to immigration (I wasn't born in the US). I can pick them up pretty easily. I can do the Southern Drawl, Northern and London English, NJ, Brooklyn etc.
I kinda settled on mild Jersey with a tinge of Caribbean because it sounds cool.
Omg yes.
Excellent news.
It's not like I hate my accent or anything. Or at least what I imagine it would sound as female after training.
It's just that I'm thinking, if I'm going to train my voice, why not go for what I would find to be the ideal.
Currently, while I do have a softer spoken boy voice, the accents are a bit messy for Ireland. A mix of the upper class area and schools, the not so culturally refined part I got from playing my sports and friends from elsewhere, and a little bit of countryside from my parents.
Quite excited to start all of this. Always would have liked a bit more London in my voice :)
Am hoping to try and get it so it becomes my full time voice, not one where I have to put it on or think about it.
Oddly enough my voice softens when I use RP.
Quote from: Wynternight on January 13, 2015, 12:03:52 AM
Oddly enough my voice softens when I use RP.
You need Russian accent.
Quote from: Jill F on January 13, 2015, 12:49:49 AM
You need Russian accent.
I have done Russian accent when I took two years in Uni. It does not soften my voice.