I wanted to post this because I have seen a TON of posts where people ask about how much their voices will drop and many people say that it has to do with how high your voice is to begin with. That REALLY made me feel lousy when I first started T since I had such a high voice. However, there must be other factors because I am only 7 months on T and am passing almost all the time voice-wise (I go through a drive thru and I am always a 'sir'), plus my voice gets deeper on an almost daily basis.
I have added two recordings to show you that it's possible to drop to a passable voice from one that would give Julie Andrews a run for her money. In the first recording I sing soprano (I am a terrible singer, please forgive me for that), and then, after I sing, I speak in my LOWEST voice saying "Yes, I have a very high voice, and I can't sing low at all.". It isn't even my normal voice, but me speaking from the diaphragm trying to be deeper. The second recording is me now, in my normal voice, saying that I am 7 months on testosterone. There is a MAJOR difference, and the change is not even finished!
The reason I wanted to post this is simply because I don't want guys with super high voices to feel as badly as I did; I want to give them some hope. There are a lot of factors regarding how low your voice will drop, and how high it is to start out with is only one of them.
1 Week on T, Singing (Terribly)
http://vocaroo.com/i/s12hLmYOu3aW
7 Months on T
http://vocaroo.com/i/s18jtVRnMr7Y
Thanks for posting this; your voice sounds amazing :). My voice was high and squeaky pre T (and annoyingly seem to take ages to simmer down on T) but I'm finally happy with how it sounds and have no more voice dysphoria. I was just listening to my voice recording 3 months on T and now on 7 months and it's amazing how much it's changed.
So yeah; I thought I was going to be a no hoper but I'm glad I was proven wrong ;)
Woah. This makes me feel so much better. Thanks for sharing! I started out as a soprano and have always hated my speaking voice because I used to sound like a child, lol. Almost two months on T and my voice is dropping so now I sound like more of a husky alto, which is a little better. But I still have sooo much anxiety about speaking. And I had also heard that rumor about having a higher voice pre T meaning having a higher voice on T. So I am keeping my fingers crossed. Patience is not one of my virtues though.
Thanks for posting this. I haven't started anything transition wise but was just thinking how much I disliked my "feminine" sounding voice. This helped. :)
Your voice sounds great by the way.
As soon as I heard your voice in the second recording, I started smiling really wide. Thanks a ton for posting this! I have a naturally high voice, and by habit raise it up more when being polite, and hate it. I was always hoping T would help with that and this gave me a lot of hope.
P.S.: Accent wise, what is it? I'm in MN so this doesn't sound very familiar on my end.
Quote from: LatrellHK on June 10, 2016, 10:41:33 PM
As soon as I heard your voice in the second recording, I started smiling really wide. Thanks a ton for posting this! I have a naturally high voice, and by habit raise it up more when being polite, and hate it. I was always hoping T would help with that and this gave me a lot of hope.
P.S.: Accent wise, what is it? I'm in MN so this doesn't sound very familiar on my end.
Haha, I'm Texan, born and raised! Glad this made you smile! :)
Quote from: LatrellHK on June 10, 2016, 10:41:33 PMI have a naturally high voice, and by habit raise it up more when being polite, and hate it.
Sounds like you need to start being super-rude. >:-)
Seriously, you can train yourself out of that habit and still be polite.
Quote from: Arch on June 11, 2016, 02:16:30 AM
Sounds like you need to start being super-rude. >:-)
Seriously, you can train yourself out of that habit and still be polite.
Probably should start that!
To be honest, I don't know why. Like I go from normal voice, which is pretty low from years of training, to super high pitched, feminine, and girly when being polite or on the phone and having an important conversation. I'm slowly teaching myself to keep it low on the phone as my normal range is already pretty high pitched on the phone.
I spend so much time alone at home that I forget that the world is a noisy place. I have a habit of speaking VERY quietly when I'm out in public after a three-day weekend of prepping for class and grading papers. After all this time, I still forget. It's a process...
Quote from: LatrellHK on June 11, 2016, 12:32:05 PM
Probably should start that!
To be honest, I don't know why. Like I go from normal voice, which is pretty low from years of training, to super high pitched, feminine, and girly when being polite or on the phone and having an important conversation. I'm slowly teaching myself to keep it low on the phone as my normal range is already pretty high pitched on the phone.
I learned to do that doing phone customer service and it's a very difficult habit to break. It gets positive reinforcement so it's a
really hard habit to break.