I'm on the phone talking to the Welfare Dept. and the guy at the dept. kept calling me ma'am so I'm thinking this has never happened to me before and I'm wondering if I hearing correctly and he keeps doing it, so we get to my name and I figure he's going to say oh! I'm sorry sir, didn't happen. You can use my name both M and F , but you rarely hear it that way. I don't know what happened it was a weirdly fun experience.
Quote from: stephaniec on July 07, 2015, 11:25:16 AM
I'm on the phone talking to the Welfare Dept. and the guy at the dept. kept calling me ma'am so I'm thinking this has never happened to me before and I'm wondering if I hearing correctly and he keeps doing it, so we get to my name and I figure he's going to say oh! I'm sorry sir, didn't happen. You can use my name both M and F , but you rarely hear it that way. I don't know what happened it was a weirdly fun experience.
Hugs that's awesome
thanks
sounds like the person interpreted your voice as female, so that's awesome :)
its pretty weird , I never expected it. I always try to soften my voice and try a little higher , but this was really unexpected maybe because it's always on my mind I'm unconsciously doing it.
That is Awesome!!
I've been listening to.... and practicing voice training. So far it's been dismal for me. The training tells me that "resonance" is more important than "pitch", and that pitch will fall into place once you get the resonance down.
I've tried the falsetto approach as it suggested, and work my way down to the female resonance, but bringing it down to female resonance only serves to make my voice crack like I'm going thru puberty :'(
I'm 66 for crying out loud, and puberty for me was only a painful memory.
The video lessons I purchased are produced by a Transgender woman, and she gives and example of her old voice, and current voice, and it is an amazing transformation. Any suggestions ladies?
And again your story is wonderful. :)
Quote from: stephaniec on July 07, 2015, 01:05:14 PM
its pretty weird , I never expected it. I always try to soften my voice and try a little higher , but this was really unexpected maybe because it's always on my mind I'm unconsciously doing it.
That's kind of how I found my voice, by accident. I studied my butt off trying to find it and one day when I'm using a range that I know isn't the right one, someone genders my voice female.
Quote from: LesleyAnne on July 07, 2015, 01:16:14 PM
That is Awesome!!
I've been listening to.... and practicing voice training. So far it's been dismal for me. The training tells me that "resonance" is more important than "pitch", and that pitch will fall into place once you get the resonance down.
I've tried the falsetto approach as it suggested, and work my way down to the female resonance, but bringing it down to female resonance only serves to make my voice crack like I'm going thru puberty :'(
I'm 66 for crying out loud, and puberty for me was only a painful memory.
The video lessons I purchased are produced by a Transgender woman, and she gives and example of her old voice, and current voice, and it is an amazing transformation. Any suggestions ladies?
And again your story is wonderful. :)
I watched all those videos, plus youtube videos and read articles about it. The whole nine yards. I couldn't grasp it based on any of the explanations.
There seem to be two falsetto ranges. I was trying to use the bottom falsetto thinking that was where I needed to be, but a major part of the resonance was missing. You don't want to be in falsetto at all. I went up instead of down. I started with my natural voice and gradually increased the pitch until the somewhat gritty part of the voice disappeared. Then I stepped it down to add it back in.
That got me the resonance, but it was about 2 notes lower than the low female range, so I worked on using that voice until it was natural and have been slowly increasing the pitch, practicing with the new one until it's easy, then doing it again. How open your throat is, is very important! I find I have a hard time producing the same voice when I'm standing vs sitting vs lying down.
Where you form the sound is also important and kind of hard to explain. Once you have the resonance and you can find that spot again without needing a recorder, get into your girl mode and practice in front of a mirror. Use your guy voice first. Notice the shape of your mouth when you form the words. I bet your mouth is almost completely closed like mine was. If you watch women speak, for the most part they form the shape of the sound with their lips, not their mouth. If you work on using your lips to form the sound instead, you'll suddenly start to hear that sing-song sound and the breathy thing at the same time. Smiling while you talk also does wonders for your voice that you can't even imagine until you try it.
Unfortunately, like Physics, there are a bunch of moving parts that depend on each other. What I did was I worked on different parts until I thought I was close, then worked on more. Then one day I was just using a higher pitch of my guy voice and bam! Instant girl voice. In reality it was because I had been practicing so much that I was forming words the way women do, but in my guy voice. Once I combined all the parts together, it was like magic.
All the articles out there stress the importance of record and playback. I can't agree more. Using your voice to speak to people is also invaluable. I was avoiding the voice that became my girl voice because I thought it sounded like a guy. My fiance told me I was wrong. Then the general public agreed with her.
Sorry for the partial thread hijack, but I wanted to answer the person that asked about the voice and figured it might help others too.