I'm pre-T, and my voice is... odd. Kind of a mixture of and Marian Call, with a really high falsetto range. When I've been keeping up with my singing I've got a range of C3 to F6ish (C4 is middle C, right? I can never remember). My speaking voice tends to be rather deep, but clearly female, and my singing voice is nearly all falsetto; I can't really get higher than an A4 without switching to head voice.

I'm really hoping to keep some of my high range on T and be one of those rare men who can still sing soprano. I know they exist; I sing in a women's choir with two men! However, I probably won't, and I'm okay with that.

Lots of interesting responses here! Yes, C4 is middle C. Apparently my voice has a passable tone to it, if I get a better microphone I'll do a recording for comparison whenever I finally get on T. But even with it making me sound even higher-pitched I pass as a young boy over Skype calls and whatnot even to complete strangers.

I was a very high soprano. I sounded like Mickey Mouse. Now I'd say I'm probably an alto, although my singing voice is entirely destroyed. I could probably take lessons and get it sorted out again, but I haven't.

I've wondered about something, re: guys unable to sing since they took T. I've had a rather different experience. BUT, I also played the recorder and the Indian flute for awhile-- how that fits is this: In order to play low notes on either you have to control your breath. Playing low notes takes a LOT more breath than higher notes. So my theory-- learn to control your breath and you can sing. Wonder if breath control exercises and so on would help?


--Jay

I'm  pre-T. I have a voice that's sort of in-between, at least when I hear it. I tried figuring out what my vocal range was, but since I can't sing...
I can hit notes in the mezzo-soprano range, and the lowest I can go is a Tenor. I kinda like my range for now, but I hope that if/when I start taking T, my speaking voice will get deeper.

I believe a more musically-inclined friend described my pre-T voice as alto. I don't know much about voice types, but I know it was pretty high. For illustrative purposes, here is a pre-transition video from riiight around the time I first came out as trans (like 4 years ago):



I've been on T for a year and 2 months, and I doubt even a skilled musician could manage to classify my current voice into a category-- right now it sounds somewhere between "getting over a cold" and "sang karaoke for 5 hours straight and killed my vocal cords." (This results in some hilarious croaking noises during song time at the summer camp I work at.)

Here's a video of what my voice sounds like now, to prove just how much I sound like an opera singer with a head-cold:

Before T, my voice was pretty high to me but a normal girl's voice to others. Now it's started cracking and I sound like an idiot all the time, haha. I was sent to a speech therapist pre-T so they could get recordings of my voice pre- and post-T and help me acclimatize into my new voice, and they told me that I was really good at hitting the high notes but not too good at lowering my voice.

My voice is annoyingly high even compared to a woman's and I sound like a little kid. Seriously, when I answer my cell phone and it's a telemarketer, they ask if they can speak to an adult. It's very frustrating.

When I used to sing I was an alto. But in the past I did voice work and I have a naturally flexible voice range. My normal voice has been described as gender neutral. When I'm relaxed it would be hard to tell if my voice belonged to a guy or a girl. Mostly because of this raspy tone I have. And I use my skills to tip my voice off into the lower range, so I don't usually get outed by my voice. But when I'm anxious my voice pitches up man I can't wait until I get on T