Quote from: Shawn Sunshine on December 11, 2012, 05:21:05 PM
I found this example of a "girly girl" voice on you tube

i wouldn't call that girly girl.

I would call that high pitch anime fast talking voice over. That's a cartoon.

Sadie if you want to hear how others hear you here's how:

Pick up 2 magazines or preferably magazine size hard cover books, put them directly in front of your ears and talk.

Contrary to popular belief, electronic filters such as recording machines are to be avoided unless you have high end material.

I still don't know what constitutes a "girly girl." 

Quote from: Seyranna on December 12, 2012, 09:58:58 PM
Sadie if you want to hear how others hear you here's how:

Pick up 2 magazines or preferably magazine size hard cover books, put them directly in front of your ears and talk.

Contrary to popular belief, electronic filters such as recording machines are to be avoided unless you have high end material.

modern electronic recorders work very well. My electronic recorder was 10 dollars at Target and it worked wonders for my voice development. They play back your real voice...without any type of false securities.

Quote from: DianaP on December 12, 2012, 10:00:28 PM
I still don't know what constitutes a "girly girl." 

I don't either. What I heard was a clip from "My little ponies."

Quote from: Seyranna on December 12, 2012, 09:58:58 PM
Sadie if you want to hear how others hear you here's how:

Pick up 2 magazines or preferably magazine size hard cover books, put them directly in front of your ears and talk.

Contrary to popular belief, electronic filters such as recording machines are to be avoided unless you have high end material.

Oh the horror! 

heh j/k

Honestly I'd give it a "meh". Passable enough but nothing to write home about.

this is a sample of my voice. I used a 10 dollar recorder and some help with Kathe Perez. Took about 7 months with constant practice. I think my voice sounds feminine...without sounding like a clip from My Little Ponies 

Annah Loosing Her Mind!!

Just do a you tube search for "girly girl voice" there's a few videos that show up. Think Barbie, she has girly girl voice, its very pop star and sounds like California valley girl, which can be considered more of a style than anything else.

Quote from: Annah on December 12, 2012, 10:13:57 PM
this is a sample of my voice. I used a 10 dollar recorder and some help with Kathe Perez. Took about 7 months with constant practice. I think my voice sounds feminine...without sounding like a clip from My Little Ponies 

Dang girl. Good job! 

Quote from: Annah on December 12, 2012, 10:05:53 PM
modern electronic recorders work very well. My electronic recorder was 10 dollars at Target and it worked wonders for my voice development. They play back your real voice...without any type of false securities.

It depends on the device I guess. Noise suppression is your worst enemy though.

Have you tried the exercise?

i never tried the magazine thing. No. To me, that would create a false resonance sound from your voice due to the curvature and the close proximity of the magazine to the ear.

To me, that would be similar to the singing in the shower phenomena.

If you really want to see results then practice in front of a friend who will be honest. Everytime i played back my voice recorder, my cousin (who is very honest) always said, "yup..the voice in your recorder really sounds like you."

Quote from: Shawn Sunshine on December 12, 2012, 10:17:53 PM
Just do a you tube search for "girly girl voice" there's a few videos that show up. Think Barbie, she has girly girl voice, its very pop star and sounds like California valley girl, which can be considered more of a style than anything else.

but Barbie is just another cartoon. Those aren't "real" voices.

It seems like you are adjusting or placing your analysis on voices based on cartoon or comic book characters.

Quote from: DianaP on December 12, 2012, 10:18:44 PM
Dang girl. Good job! 

thank you

I would be scared if I actually heard a girl talk like Barbie. 

Your voice sounds undoubtedly female but does it matches your age? If you are in your late 30ies/early forties this voice sounds a little too young, or maybe it's the speech pattern or maybe it's just you being tired and silly IDK =P but I was under the impression that it should "mature" a bit. Still better to have a great voice even if slightly mismatched than sound like a truck though. I think I sound younger than my age too. The important thing is how flexible this voice is and how much volume you can crank. For instance, many trans women have decent conversational voice but can't call out to their friends across the street or order something over the counter in a noisy environment for ->-bleeped-<-.

I have met women who are real girly girl, not very many of them but it isn't always the voice that makes them that way, its more personality.

You could have a very high voice and still be a tomboy, everyones different. I was not basing my view of girly girl based on voices on cartoons really at all, Its just that the gal who does the voice of barbie just happened to be on my mind.

Kelly Sheridan (Barbie)

Her normal voice seems rather girly to me as well.

Quote from: Annah on December 12, 2012, 10:25:32 PM
i never tried the magazine thing. No. To me, that would create a false resonance sound from your voice due to the curvature and the close proximity of the magazine to the ear.

To me, that would be similar to the singing in the shower phenomena.

If you really want to see results then practice in front of a friend who will be honest. Everytime i played back my voice recorder, my cousin (who is very honest) always said, "yup..the voice in your recorder really sounds like you."

Trying to undermine what I say is pointless this is an exercise proven by professional speech pathologists. <.<

Quote from: Seyranna on December 12, 2012, 10:35:56 PM
Your voice sounds undoubtedly female but does it matches your age? If you are in your late 30ies/early forties this voice sounds a little too young, or maybe it's the speech pattern or maybe it's just you being tired and silly IDK =P but I was under the impression that it should "mature" a bit. Still better to have a great voice even if slightly mismatched than sound like a truck though. I think I sound younger than my age too. The important thing is how flexible this voice is and how much volume you can crank. For instance, many trans women have decent conversational voice but can't call out to their friends across the street or order something over the counter in a noisy environment for ->-bleeped-<-.

I am 40 but I do not sound 40 nor do I look 40.

Why would I want to look or talk like an older person? I am not the type of person who concedes to a stereotypical 40 year old person.

I feel like I am in my 20s and people say I look like I am in my 20s. It doesn't mean I have to act like a middle age person. Even when I presented as a man I never acted "old."   Being, acting, and sounding young is not synonymous to being, acting, or sounding immature.

I get tons of compliments from my church and in hospitals because they say my voice is soothing and reassuring. So, that works for me.

I can cough, sneeze, yell, cry, scream, laugh, whisper, and sing feminine.

Quote from: Annah on December 12, 2012, 10:44:03 PM
I can cough, sneeze, yell, cry, scream, laugh, whisper, and sing feminine.

How did you do it?!

Quote from: DianaP on December 12, 2012, 10:45:23 PM
How did you do it?!

I was Fulltime...I had to learn it or be clocked. I practiced all the time and everytime I was awake....because I was fulltime I had no other choice.

Yelling and whispering was the easiest for me.

Coughing and sneezing was the next level of difficulty but that didn't take long.

Singing was the hardest and the longest but I think I nailed it. I sang solo in our choir a few times and I am a soprano. I used to be a bass lol