Is it possible to lower your voice without testosterone? I ask because i tried this one but it didn't seem to go anywhere and it strained my vocal cords and i got told you don't want that to happen.
but my voice is pretty bad lately so i've been wanting to figure out something and give it a shot again instead of feeling dysphoric the entire day.
You sort of can with practice. There are various voice exercises from ftms you can find on tumblr or youtube. Never tried them myself though. I just try to speak in a more monotone way and make sure I'm speaking from the chest.
Yes, but it happens overtime and by time I mean over at least a year. I've witnessed FtM youtubers who aren't on T progressively deepen their voice and make it more male-sounding over a couple of years without T. it's still high pitched, but passable for a high pitched male as they make it have more of a male tone.
So it's possible, not sure how. I'd imagine just practice and exercises you can probably find online. It's also most likely different for everyone.
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If singers and voice actors can practice exercises to get a wider and stronger range I'm sure some of that can be appropriated for the reasons we have.
It can be possible for the FTM to lower their voice some without damage to the voice. We MTF start out with the chest voice where the muscles above our larynx are relaxed when we speak. To shift our voice to the feminine range, we tighten up those muscles and it gives us a sizable pitch increase. We call this our trained voice but in music it's a head voice. In addition when we speak, we feel the vibrations in our mouth. Women naturally use what we call a trained voice and if they relax the same muscles, they drop into the lower feminine range or sometimes into the upper masculine range. Karen Carpenter is a singer who made her money by dropping into the chest voice for her primary voice when singing. Her records were one of the first to use overdubbing so she was also her own background singer and you will hear her higher range in some of the background singing. A good example of this is her song "Only yesterday".
In addition, male voices are much less expressive. The human ear listens for things that say feminine in a voice and if it hears them, it ID's the voice as feminine. Staying in the lower end of the range will help keep the ear from triggering on feminine and may class your voice as young male.
Not sure if this is true but drinking warm water or milk preferably before bedtime suppousedly make you're voice lower.
Yes, but not to the extent that T does.
I started doing vocal exercises several months before starting T. It made a small difference and it was necessary to keep up with the exercises daily to maintain the effect.