Hello,
I'm just wondering if anyone has used the EVA voice training/coaching app and made any significant progress and/or had sucess with it. When I first heard of it, I didn't really take it seriously because the idea of an app changing your voice seemed kind of comical to me but I could really use the help and I hear off an on about how great Kathe Perez can be in regards to voice training and helping transgender girls find their female voice, and I do not know of any voice coaches in the Philadelphia region I can hire to help me with my voice.
Thanks
I decided to go ahead and buy the first (not breathing) lesson, since it had a pitch analyzer. Watched the first video and it seems consistent with the voice lessons you can get on Youtube and such. Haven't really done the practice yet, but that's mostly because I'm embarrassed about making strange sounds when everybody is home to hear me.
i have bought them and also have tried to use them. from what i have read it seems to be a good starting point but i am like you i can never find the alone time to practice with it. and some how i think just watching the how to video will be enough. (roll eyes as i sigh)
Vicky
MtF
I am getting voice training from some graduate students, and last semester they were actually students of Kathy Perez. They had me using the Eva app, and I found it very useful. I don't think it's useful all by itself, but when combined with other training, it's useful. I use the Eva app to calibrate my voice higher, and then I try to speak phrases in that pitch. I find that using the Eva app that way raises my base pitch fairly considerably. It's best to combine that practice with other stuff, like resonance training (trying to move your voice up into your face, instead of your throat).
It's important to note that a major difference between sounding passable and not sounding passable is voice quality. Without quality, a higher pitch just sounds faked. If you watch some videos on resonance, that will probably really help you maintain quality while you use the eva app. If you can raise your pitch with the app while maintaining vocal quality and then do exercises, it should help.
Another important thing is that the Eva app has you practicing pitch at 220Hz. My teachers tell me that it's not realistic of me to think that I will talk at that pitch, but that learning to maintain quality at that pitch will cause me to normalize to a passable - if somewhat low for a woman - pitch. Sounding kind of fake at 220 is fine, because that's just training.
Really I just need some direction to get started. This seemed the easiest way to do it without shelling out tons of money for professional lessons. For I am broke. :(
I was checking out the Eva app on the Google Play store, but there are, like 4 different Eva apps. Anyone know which one is the one to buy or should I get them all?