I'm about a week in a half in and already my voice has dropped quite a bit. It's still going, but I just wanted to know if I'll ever lose my "female" range. I hate it, and it gets in the way a lot. I don't want to be able to sound "female", I just want to lose that voice and never hear it again.
There are three possible outcome from T.
1. While uncommon, your voice may never break and you will retain the full range. I once saw a genetic male who's voice ranged over 4 octaves and could sing both male and female ranges.
2. Pretty common, your voice will break but like MTFs, you could use a head voice to access the feminine range. You may not have full access to the feminine range but with training, it could be used.
3. Not real common but it happened to me. My voice was so low, think Johnny Cash that I was unable to get anywhere near the feminine range.
In any case, I think if you learn to use the chest voice, your voice should become sufficiently masculine.
Be patient. A week is nothing. It varies for everyone but it will get lower as time goes on. There are plenty of youtube videos out there of voice changes but yours may go faster or slower than those videos.
Well it's different for everyone, you can't predict.
But the chances are even if you retain it, you'll gain lower range and be able to use that.
Six months in and I've lost half of the female range and gained a lower octave. It's easy to tell because I can now reach singing notes in songs by male singers that were absolutely impossible before, and I'm not able to reach higher ranges in songs by female singers I once could without my voice literally "running out" and no sound coming out. For a while I could switch between both but now the reflexive go-to tone when I speak has shifted from the original to a lower chest voice. So it might not take very long for you to see similar sorts of results.
It took me 6 months for my voice to settle and sound male. Before that my voice would be quite up and down. One day it may sound low and almost male and another it would sound as if there was no change whatsoever. For me this was very frustrating and required a lot more patience than I had but once your past that 6 months hurdle it becomes a lot easier.
There is a chance though that your voice may sound like a fem male. Which may be due to just being how your voice may naturally sound, using female inflections when speaking or a mix of both.
My voice was already fairly low to begin with pre-T, but I was completely out of the female range by 3 months on and its continued to drop a few times since then.
I'm almost 4 months on T and my voice is up n'down all the time. I've noticed that I when it's high it's not near where it was pre-T and the only time I seem to be slipping back into a more feminine voice is when I'm excited about something.
I did retain my female voice range, as well as getting a new male range, although I've heard that's a rare thing to happen. I can't sing, but if I could I have a range of almost 4 octaves. I didn't notice my voice breaking when I started taking T, but rather that my comfortable speaking tone just gradually and evenly got lower over time. I could/can still speak in my former pitch but it's not what I'm used to anymore so it's not comfortable.
Practically a year in now and I've lost most of the female range when speaking. It requires effort to raise the voice anywhere near its old range and more than is natural in conversation so I don't even bother trying. The male range has stabilized and it's fairly deep. The only problem with starting from female materials is the general size and length of the vocal cords you get in general due to body size. It's the naturally larger size that males grow to that seems to add more "body" to their male range voices.
Quote from: Viktor on September 30, 2017, 08:33:23 PM
Practically a year in now and I've lost most of the female range when speaking. It requires effort to raise the voice anywhere near its old range and more than is natural in conversation so I don't even bother trying. The male range has stabilized and it's fairly deep. The only problem with starting from female materials is the general size and length of the vocal cords you get in general due to body size. It's the naturally larger size that males grow to that seems to add more "body" to their male range voices.
I read up a bit about that a while ago, actually, and apparently it's the larynx that doesn't grow on us when we take T like it does on natal males when they go through puberty (something to do with it being less flexible, I think). And that is what can cause those voice problems. At least theorethically it can be helped with additional voice training though. I found that written in an article by a trans guy who's a singer, but I can't recall his name now.