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Community Conversation => Transitioning => Voice Therapy and Surgery => Topic started by: Jennifer RachaelAnn on April 14, 2017, 08:10:29 PM

Title: Voice
Post by: Jennifer RachaelAnn on April 14, 2017, 08:10:29 PM
I've searched online for weeks and can't find anything to help with this. Does anyone know where to find help with feminizing your voice? I used to know of a site that sold programs to train your voice, but can't for the life of me remember what it was. I need to start feminizing my voice but I'm coming up empty on how or where to pick up teaching programs.
Title: Re: Voice
Post by: natalie.ashlyne on April 14, 2017, 08:14:09 PM
Go on youtube and look up voice feminization  and that should help there is apps you can download  on your phone  aswell to get pitch and frequentcy of you voice
Title: Re: Voice
Post by: JeanetteLW on April 14, 2017, 09:45:30 PM
You could look in the wiki above and see the voice links under transitioning.

https://www.susans.org/wiki/Category:Transitioning

Hugs,
   Jeanette
Title: Re: Voice
Post by: Harley Quinn on April 14, 2017, 09:51:58 PM
I believe you're thinking of the EVA app. by Kathe Perez.

Youtube has quite a few resources as well.
Title: Re: Voice
Post by: Colleen_definitely on April 14, 2017, 10:05:02 PM
Have you tried the EVA app by chance?

I bought the deepstealth lesson videos.  That lady's voice is fantastic, but the videos are definitely dated.  I haven't gotten through all of it but so far it seems good. 
Title: Re: Voice
Post by: Harley Quinn on April 14, 2017, 10:19:59 PM
I have not.  I took private voice lessons from my Speech Pathologist, Brennan Littleton at the Seattle VA.  She's wonderful.
Title: Re: Voice
Post by: LizK on April 15, 2017, 06:37:41 AM
I am taking lessons from a speech pathologist...long way to go but she has taught many trans women in the past and knows exactly what she is doing...well worth the slight cost.

Liz
Title: Re: Voice
Post by: link5019 on April 15, 2017, 06:43:42 AM
I found most videos on the internet and even the EVA voice app didn't help. And I've completely trained my voice.

This is the method I used:

You know that feeling you get when you swallow, when your throat moves up and everything. You want to hold that feeling. At first is a difficult thing to do, even breath, but the more you practice the easier it is to breathe. Once you can breathe then you can try to talk. It's a bit difficult at first, and you may only be able to do it for a few seconds, but once you can talk easily with it you can then go on to changing the pitch of your voice.

For me I did a do re me method. Using that scale, you want to go, "do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti," raising your voice higher each time. it's the "so, la, ti" that will be the base line for your voice. Once you can get that base down you can then go from there and go up higher if you don't think it sounds high enough. And then after a few months, you'll have mostly perfected it. Also never talk nasally because that really sounds bad and I've seen videos suggest doing that, but this method right here should bring you up to a female range and have you sounding 100% female even on the phone.

also here is a clip of my voice to show the results: https://clyp.it/cthhmqm0
I hope this helps ^_^ ~Scarlet