I just discovered this amazing instructional video:



It's of no practical use for me since I'm F2M, but I think some of the ladies could find it really helpful.
(And, besides, the girl doing the video is just adorable )

QuoteAnd, besides, the girl doing the video is just adorable

I've seen it before she is helpful and your right... so adorable

I wish she would do more, they are fun to watch besides being helpful.

Amanda

Quote from: AlwaysAmanda on April 25, 2008, 12:28:09 PM
I wish she would do more, they are fun to watch besides being helpful.

I watched some and definitly agree with you. But how many do you know? She has plenty videos, more than twenty I think--you said yourself that you have seen this some time ago, maybe she uploaded some new vid since then?

Oh cool... I just clicked on the link... duh... did not even think she might have new
ones... lol... sometimes I are not to bright

I think she only had 3 or 4 last time I watched them, I'll go check them out. Thanks!

Amanda

for all the ladies, i tend to agree with another friend of mine, we girls tend to overexaggerate this issue i believe. in the past i had always wondered, even after i spoke, why people would insist on calling me ma'am9 i always thought in the back of my mind, maybe they know something i don't?) but a few months ago, i was waiting at my sister's gas station and this black girl came in, quite pretty and young, and she said in her baritone voice, i need my change from pump whatever she was on. tbh, i was in shock!!!! sis, didn't bat an eyelash, which at the time, i thought a little unusual. then only a day or so ago, i went in to a dollar general store i hadn't been in before, and when we were checking out, the girl was about four times my size to put it politely and had a voice just as deep and monotone as any man's, again i was a little shocked, and i guarentee this woman gets sirred on the phone ALL the time. i do hope that someday, we will realize that women have a broader range of voices than just high pitched feminine ones, that just scream female no matter what. i know some of us just aren't that lucky. to each her own tho i guess.

Best Wishes,
Mickie,
Warrior Princess

Female voice, even the baritone ones, DON'T sound like men. They have a different resonnance because of their smaller voice apparatus.

Jeezzz. Listen to Baccall if you don't know what I mean, she's got a deep voice, but it sounds distinctly feminine. And its not a weak ass voice either. I hate it when people say to speak with a whisper, that's a good way to damage your vocal cords; a whispered voice is actually much harder on your cords than a full voice. Try whispering for an hour and you'll see what I mean.

I think imitating Bacall would be a could solution for those who can't get their pitch up. Then, you just have to work on your resonnance.

ok, then, so why did my wife think she was a man? i would like that explained. she sounded distincively masculine, i'm really not kidding. i can have my wife attest to it if anyone wants. i guarentee if you talked to her on the phone, you'd swear you were talking to a guy if you didn't know her. guess i will start having to provide proof...lol gotta go buy some high tech computer equipment so i can record to the computer............


Mickie,
Warrior Princess

Quote from: Keira on April 25, 2008, 03:01:48 PM
Female voice, even the baritone ones, DON'T sound like men. They have a different resonnance because of their smaller voice apparatus.

Quote from: Princess Mickie on April 25, 2008, 03:18:33 PM
ok, then, so why did my wife think she was a man? i would like that explained. she sounded distincively masculine, i'm really not kidding.

I think the solution is rather simple--how your voice sounds depends a lot on your character, too. We all know the stereotype that guys talk monotonously while girls voices are much more lively--this is probably true in most cases, but not all and if a girl has a really deep baritone voice AND tends to talk rather monotonously, she would sound a lot like a man (especially if you do not know her gender and have only her voice to judge from).

Quote from: Princess Mickie on April 25, 2008, 03:18:33 PM
ok, then, so why did my wife think she was a man?

how are you sure she wasnt

I find watching all these videos is helpful to a degree, plus I've got a drawer full of instructional tapes and videos, but in the end you have to do it for yourself and find your natural female voice. I can pass fairly confidently on the phone now, but I'm a bit disappointed with my female voice as it sounds 'silly' to me. In fact it even makes me laugh! I've got quite a strong regional accent which I am unable to lose and I sound just like the British comic poet Pam Ayres (I don't expect any of you in North America will have heard of her, but her poems are brilliantly witty and so true to life). However at least I sound a lot like the 'born females' round here, which is the object of it all I suppose.
L.