Exactly as the question states! My normal always has been voice is a 130 Hz & my "female" voice is 180. I put it in parenthesis because I wouldn't consider it a female voice where I'm actually trying, but rather raising my pitch at a very comfortable level. Sooo how many Hz is considered female & to what range?

From memory female range is between 160 and 250. I'm lucky in that my normal speaking voice has always stayed around 180 with a normal range of 160-225, more when singing of course

My current female voice is at 170 Hz. (I just had it test last week and my old male was around 130.) If I concentrate on it, I can keep it around 195 Hz. (I'm working with a speech Pathologists with a small group for the next 6 weeks to improve mine.) I have pretty good resonance and that has worked well for me even at 170 Hz, no one has said that's a male voice in person or even on an intercom like in a drive through. However on the phone, it's 50/50. However if I concentrate and keep it at 195 Hz, even on the phone it's 100% female.

Here is a chart that shows the ranges (courtesy of NY Speech & Voice Lab):


The average female voice is at 220 Hz. If I can keep it at 195, then I'll be a happy camper. But there is so much more than just pitch. Resonance, expressiveness, articulation, etc are extremely important.

Quote from: Sydney_NYC on November 12, 2014, 10:32:11 PM
My current female voice is at 170 Hz. (I just had it test last week and my old male was around 130.) If I concentrate on it, I can keep it around 195 Hz. (I'm working with a speech Pathologists with a small group for the next 6 weeks to improve mine.) I have pretty good resonance and that has worked well for me even at 170 Hz, no one has said that's a male voice in person or even on an intercom like in a drive through. However on the phone, it's 50/50. However if I concentrate and keep it at 195 Hz, even on the phone it's 100% female.

Here is a chart that shows the ranges (courtesy of NY Speech & Voice Lab):


The average female voice is at 220 Hz. If I can keep it at 195, then I'll be a happy camper. But there is so much more than just pitch. Resonance, expressiveness, articulation, etc are extremely important.

Thanks for the chart! This will come in handy n__n One day I'll probably just pay for voice therapy because honestly I don't feel like my female voice fits my face even though I've never been sir'd on the phone while using it. Nice to know my overall voice is pretty gender ambiguous. I'm not gonna lie, I fought it so much during puberty haha If I felt it go deeper I would sing all day so it didn't stick.

I have an initial consultation with a speech pathologist tomorrow. I'm pretty excited.

Quote from: Sydney_NYC on November 12, 2014, 10:32:11 PM
My current female voice is at 170 Hz. (I just had it test last week and my old male was around 130.) If I concentrate on it, I can keep it around 195 Hz. (I'm working with a speech Pathologists with a small group for the next 6 weeks to improve mine.) I have pretty good resonance and that has worked well for me even at 170 Hz, no one has said that's a male voice in person or even on an intercom like in a drive through. However on the phone, it's 50/50. However if I concentrate and keep it at 195 Hz, even on the phone it's 100% female.

Here is a chart that shows the ranges (courtesy of NY Speech & Voice Lab):


The average female voice is at 220 Hz. If I can keep it at 195, then I'll be a happy camper. But there is so much more than just pitch. Resonance, expressiveness, articulation, etc are extremely important.

Wow, mine is in the gender neutral zone.

Quote from: Sydney_NYC on November 12, 2014, 10:32:11 PM
My current female voice is at 170 Hz. (I just had it test last week and my old male was around 130.) If I concentrate on it, I can keep it around 195 Hz. (I'm working with a speech Pathologists with a small group for the next 6 weeks to improve mine.) I have pretty good resonance and that has worked well for me even at 170 Hz, no one has said that's a male voice in person or even on an intercom like in a drive through. However on the phone, it's 50/50. However if I concentrate and keep it at 195 Hz, even on the phone it's 100% female.

Here is a chart that shows the ranges (courtesy of NY Speech & Voice Lab):


The average female voice is at 220 Hz. If I can keep it at 195, then I'll be a happy camper. But there is so much more than just pitch. Resonance, expressiveness, articulation, etc are extremely important.

Interesting, how can I test this? 
I consider my voice to be feminine because everyone on the phone calls me me some sort of pet name,or  like this one time when setting up my accout with the electric company they didn't believe my name was Philip (haven't legally changed my name yet) she kept questioning me till I had to tell her I'm transitioning.

Does anyone else find it hard n uncomfortable in the throat when going back to a male tone? 

http://www.sygyt.com/en/overtone-analyzer-editions

That is the easiest software to use. The free one only gives you a 10 second recording but that is enough to find your pitch. Plus the visuals are really useful to see your under and overtones, hence the name.

Cool I'll have to get it soon

Clearly my real problem is resonance. No one ever thinks my voice is female but talking as lowest I was able to get Praat to go a moment ago while really trying to push it low was 130hz. When I talked normally kinda monotone it falls around 140hz and when I talk like I do when I'm interested in something it was anywhere from 140hz-190hz though mostly settling around 160hz. It's really hard to tell because a few clips spiked to averages like 228hz depending on how I emphasized words. So uh, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that it's not terrible difficult for me to push the pitch upward but the tone is all wrong.

EDIT: I just tried holding a note while open throated breathy (like in the Andrea James lesson where she said that when you go in falsetto you can't hold it wide open?) and got at least around 446hz and possibly higher though I don't know what this means. If'm not actually sure if I'm avoiding falsetto like this but if I really push it the damn program won't even calculate it. I think there is something funky going on here because I know for damn sure I could hit way higher notes when I was a preteen before my voice broke.

Haha, here's another dumb thing I just tried. I opened spectrogram and held a note along with this thing.