Quick question about my voice, is it possible to feminize my voice in two weeks or less? If so, how?

I suppose it is possible, but it would depend on your starting point (I.e. Pitch, resonance, speech patterns, etc.) and the voice training method you use (there are several methods available online, and you can seek out a speech therapist in your area that works with trans women, and some speech therapists offer Skype sessions), however the average amount of time to develop a natural sounding female voice is several months to a few years; one reason is that voice training puts a lot of stress on your vocal chords in the beginning.

Okay, thanks! I don't really have a macho voice so it is possible?

Unless you are preconditioned like with singing in a higher voice or having a higher voice already it usually takes a few weeks.
It takes consistent training, a few minutes every day in the beginning.

In the beginnng only a short time may be possible since training of larynx muscles is necessary.
Don't overstrain yourself, stop then.

Reading a book in a slightly higer voice is one method.

Also females use more indirect language like might, and intonation is much more going up and down within words and sentences.

its possible to record the voice and listen to results.
There are also frequency analyzer apps which can help avoid untertones.
Undertones below 150 hz might be avoided.

http://www.nyspeechandvoicelab.net/transgender/voice-feminization/


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No your voice box is a very sensitive muscle, trying to rush this kind of training will just cause damage. If anything it'll take you months of consistent practice even if you're starting from a high voice. Things like yelling and coughing can't be achieved in such a short amount of time.

Okay thanks for everything everybody!


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Oh, and one more thing. How do I practice while still living at home?


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One of the tricks about feminizing a voice is to develop a new "habit" so when you speak you use the proper pitch and speech pattern. The is retraining the brain to fall into the new pattern. Over time the new pattern can become so locked in that returning to the original voice is difficult. Before voice surgery, I wanted to check my original pitch and it took me several minutes in order to remember how to use the old voice. Retraining the brain can take months or as much as a year or two.

If your are still living at home and not out, you will have few options to practice your voice. If you are out, use it around the house and don't worry about it.

Quote from: Dena on May 23, 2016, 06:35:42 PM
One of the tricks about feminizing a voice is to develop a new "habit" so when you speak you use the proper pitch and speech pattern. The is retraining the brain to fall into the new pattern. Over time the new pattern can become so locked in that returning to the original voice is difficult. Before voice surgery, I wanted to check my original pitch and it took me several minutes in order to remember how to use the old voice. Retraining the brain can take months or as much as a year or two.

If your are still living at home and not out, you will have few options to practice your voice. If you are out, use it around the house and don't worry about it.

You say that I should develop a habit, what does that mean exactly?


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Using the new voice and not the old over a period of time will lock the voice in. It's much like driving a manual transmission were your don't think about shifting or touch typing where you don't think about the key you need to hit. At first you will need to think before speaking to make sure the muscles that need to be tensed are. Constant use eliminates the need to think about it before speaking. The same is true about inflection. The more you use a feminine speech pattern the more natural it becomes.

If you have a background in singing, you may have learned some of this already as a trained voice is nothing more than a head voice. If you don't have a singing background, you need to learn this from scratch.

Thanks! Now are the any YouTube videos you would recommend? Something highly detailed maybe?


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Quote from: Dena on May 23, 2016, 06:51:03 PM
Using the new voice and not the old over a period of time will lock the voice in. It's much like driving a manual transmission were your don't think about shifting or touch typing where you don't think about the key you need to hit. At first you will need to think before speaking to make sure the muscles that need to be tensed are. Constant use eliminates the need to think about it before speaking. The same is true about inflection. The more you use a feminine speech pattern the more natural it becomes.

If you have a background in singing, you may have learned some of this already as a trained voice is nothing more than a head voice. If you don't have a singing background, you need to learn this from scratch.

Yes, over time your new female voice will replace the voice you are using now, and will become your natural speaking voice; right now you have to make a concerted effort to try to make your voice sound female, but when it becomes your natural default speaking voice, you will have to make a concerted effort to speak with your old voice.

There are some "shortcuts" to a feminized voice that might work in that timeframe if you are luck and your voice is not too masculine in tone, timbre, pitch and prosody.

You could try this one: http://heartcorps.com/journeys/voice.htm

It helped me to get to a feminized voice quickly as for some people it can "snap " your voice into a different way of functioning quickly. Basically it is about resonance mainly. You change the resonance of your voice and this makes the voice female. However it only changes pitch a little and it does not change the way you talk, so it might work or it might not work. Also for some people this change worked like it did for Melanie - you do it a few times and you find your voice gets "stuck" in the new mode and just stays there unless you try to get out of it again - for others it only works when you keep concentrating on it until it becomes second nature, for others it does not work at all. Its worth a shot though, I think. However I would definitely recommend even if it works to later go to a voice therapist to stabilize it and get other issues out of the way - otherwise you might end up damaging your voice in the long run if you do some things in the wrong way, something which you only notice years later...

May I ask why the hurry?

Practicing at home with presumably parents around who do not know about that issue yet will be hard - you would need to wait until they are out or you turn on music - but practicing in a low volume only may be a bad thing as it will not allow you to properly develop the voice and you might end up only be able to sepak very softly and low volumen in public too, because the voice turns bad whenever you go louder, as you have never trained that.

You could go and take singing lessons and practice with a singing teacher. Or you could go out in the woods and practice there

I suppose it's possibly, but not likely. What's the rush?

Quote from: anjaq on May 24, 2016, 05:25:39 AM
There are some "shortcuts" to a feminized voice that might work in that timeframe if you are luck and your voice is not too masculine in tone, timbre, pitch and prosody.

You could try this one: http://heartcorps.com/journeys/voice.htm

It helped me to get to a feminized voice quickly as for some people it can "snap " your voice into a different way of functioning quickly. Basically it is about resonance mainly. You change the resonance of your voice and this makes the voice female. However it only changes pitch a little and it does not change the way you talk, so it might work or it might not work. Also for some people this change worked like it did for Melanie - you do it a few times and you find your voice gets "stuck" in the new mode and just stays there unless you try to get out of it again - for others it only works when you keep concentrating on it until it becomes second nature, for others it does not work at all. Its worth a shot though, I think. However I would definitely recommend even if it works to later go to a voice therapist to stabilize it and get other issues out of the way - otherwise you might end up damaging your voice in the long run if you do some things in the wrong way, something which you only notice years later...

May I ask why the hurry?

Practicing at home with presumably parents around who do not know about that issue yet will be hard - you would need to wait until they are out or you turn on music - but practicing in a low volume only may be a bad thing as it will not allow you to properly develop the voice and you might end up only be able to sepak very softly and low volumen in public too, because the voice turns bad whenever you go louder, as you have never trained that.

You could go and take singing lessons and practice with a singing teacher. Or you could go out in the woods and practice there

Well Thank you for the advice! it is much appreciated! Do you know of any good Youtube tutorials as I am kind of on a budget. The reason for the rush though is because there is a disney audition coming to a city near me and I would really like to audition for one of their female roles.

Wow that's ambitious - I would suppose to really get a perfectly female voice that is good for an audition for Disney of all companies, it probably is not that easy as taking 2 weeks, but you can try. I think its possible to "pass" within 2 weeks, but to get a movie-worthy voice - phew - thats hard without changing the voice at all, I suppose...

That pretty much depends on what kind of voice you have to start with... For some people it takes years before their voice sounds convincingly female. For many its impossible without surgery, and some are just incredibly lucky in that regard and have naturally female pitched voice, and just slightly change speaking pattern, maybe learn to use resonance, etc... 

It really isn't impossible for anyone to change their voice. I had a vader like voice when I started training and here I'am with a perfect voice. I can yell, have nice modulation, etc.. I think the issue lies with those of us who just can't practice consistently due to life's issues getting in the way like the time just isn't there for practice or the dysphoria is too much. The trick here is consistency, losing a few days of practice in the beginning can set you back greatly, depending on where you're starting from that is.

@supergirl23, if you want I'd be happy to work with you over skype, shoot me a pm if you're interested. I've helped a few others with success.

Quote from: anjaq on May 24, 2016, 12:06:52 PM
Wow that's ambitious - I would suppose to really get a perfectly female voice that is good for an audition for Disney of all companies, it probably is not that easy as taking 2 weeks, but you can try. I think its possible to "pass" within 2 weeks, but to get a movie-worthy voice - phew - thats hard without changing the voice at all, I suppose...

Well it's actually for the parks so hopefully it will be a little easier but thanks for the support!


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Habe you done voice-overs or such in your current voice already, so that you can say you are having a voice that was used for such things that you want to apply for? If so, tha thelps a lot of course and it also may make it easier to change the voice to female, if you are already used to doing different voices for fun or as a job or for movies or such.