They put my voice video up :

This is fantastic! Thank you for sharing your video!

Amazing. <3

Quote from: anjaq on August 12, 2016, 05:19:41 PM
They put my voice video up :

Hi Anja

Thanks for sharing this great video. You sound great!

Cheers, Danielle

Wow, Anjaq, that sounds great!

Yesterday I scheduled surgery with Dr. Haben for December.  I would be thrilled to have results like yours.

This is amazing. Thank you so much. Inspiring!!!!

Thanks all, thats so sweet, you like it. I struggled for a while in the first year after surgery, thinking it did not go so well, but in the end it came out good enough to be on Yesons Youtube

So even if its not great right away, even after many months or over a year, it still can get better I think pitch gain between those two recordings is probably 50-60 Hz.

Hi Anja,

You are a huge inspiration and deserve all the success in the world. You have invested a huge amount in your voice journey and I am thrilled for you. Reading some of the older Yeson threads, it has been a bumpy ride for you. You have prevailed!

I am looking at Yeson right now and all going well, I will be popping up to Seoul in February.  10 days in February will be nice break from the Aussie Summer! 

A huge thanks to you and all the others who have shared both here and on the Yeson site.


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Dear Anjaq

Thanks again for that great Video... Makes me hope, that my very thin crow voice getting mature as well... 

Is this your "normal" voice or do you put in some pitch effort?

Take care... 
Danielle

Well - it is natural in that it is effortless. But my voice changes from situation to situation. It can be lower than in the video when I am angry or annoyed or talking in a group of men, trying to be competent or assertive. It can be higher when I say "Hello or Goodbye" to someone or when I speak very softly.
I do not really put effort into raising pitch nowadays, its more like I do sometimes put some effort into not lowering pitch too much (probably mostly because of old habits) and into not letting my voice go into vocal fry too much. So its more like I am controlling myself to not control my voice too much - or I put effort into not putting effort into the voice, if that makes sense - lol. Basically still fighting old habits occasionally...

I tried something funny - going as high as I can in pitch , just making an eee sound and then going slowly as low as I can. The computer reads 1350 Hz as the maximum and 110 Hz as the lowest point.  There is a break at around 700-900 Hz. Thats pretty crazy...http://vocaroo.com/i/s0shAcuUbYw3

It goes against everything I have heard but my chest voice is around 140 HZ or where my old head voice was. My comfortable head voice has moved to about 220 Hz though if I am carless it will move lower. The head voice can now reach 700 HZ compared to 500 HZ after surgery. I haven't attempted to play with the falsetto voice because I suspect there could still be granulation and I don't want to push it should that be the case.

I had heard that you didn't gain pitch on the upper end but in my case, I have far more range than before.

Well in a way I did loose a bit at the top. I had 880 Hz and a bit more before the surgery and now its more like 760 Hz. But now after surgery there is another register above that, starting at 900 Hz and going above 1300 Hz - there is a break between, hence I say its a different register, probably what is called the whistle register. It only started to appear after 12 months on accidental occasions, but now after 18 months I can deliberately use it on most days. Its not good for anything, I guess, but its kind of funny that its there. Maybe it will be present when I giggle?

You  may have four ranges you can hit. Chest, head, falsetto and whistler. I could hit all four before surgery but I haven't attempted to go above the head voice yet and I am not really sure I can hit it any more. However, I would gladly trade not hitting the two higher voices for more range in the head voice.

Anjaq,

I saw your video on Yeson's Youtube when I was researching them.  Your results sound fantasitc.  You mentioned that you had some struggles the first year after surgery, may I ask what you experienced as the issue?  Was it with the vocal exercises or just the way your voice was sounding?

I am actually going to Yeson in early February, so I am gathering more information--so to speak

Thanks for sharing your video.

-Sarah

Thank you - I still try to improve my voice, but it mostly a matter of trying to not fall into vocal fry or getting rid of that old habit of forcing my voice too much.

The issues I had with the surgery were - I had a massive cough attack during wakeup - a friend coming with me told me I was blue in the face. So I blame this to having a longer recovery and less pitch gain than predicted. I started at about 135 Hz according to Dr Kim and my pitch after surgery was about 170-180 Hz. So at first I was a bit sad that it did not give me as much gain as I had hoped for. I did the vocal exercises, but apparently i did them wrong in some ways, I found this out only some months later when I made a video and sent it to Dr Kim, I got tipps then how to improve my exercises. The biggest struggle was to not get vocal fry - or buzzing or other roughness and hoarseness - I had a lot of this during the first 6 months and stimm some afterwards. Also because I was not so happy with the pitch gain, I kept using a higher pitch than I was supposed to and this strained my voice. At the same time I often used a lower pitch than I was supposed to, when I tried to not strain my voice - which also ended up straining my voice. So basically the biggest struggle was to find a pitch that is optimal for my new voice and to find a way of speaking that does not strain the voice. My mind was confused a bit - trying to go lower in pitch almost to pre OP pitches in an effort to relax - going higher in pitch to sound more feminine - but in the end the goal is to basically find access to your new voice. Now I usually have a pitch of about 180-200 and this seems to work best. It has become a lot easier now for me to go higher and I feel more confident to occasionally drop the pitch lower for short moments. Also I struggle less with the vocal break into head voice, something that was a major blockade for me after surgery, since that break is at about 240 Hz - so speaking at 190 Hz would inevitably mean I have to cross over that break for intonations and voice melody. But the exercises help a lot with that.
Sorry, if this sounds a bit confusing - if you have more specific questions, maybe I can answer them with less chaos