Not that I'm disappointed or anything, but I tried to speak like i used to and i just couldn't do it...well i could, but i really had to concentrate...and i sounded like a really camp cockney (think Dick Van Dyke in mary poppins but more nasal)

It does get harder and harder to find that voice.   Like you, Helena, I can get to the "voice of Satan", as someone once called it, but it is hard to get down there.

Thank the gods it is getting harder.   

 

Wish I had that issue.
I find myself droping back into my base voice all the time.
Maintaining a proper voice is my hardest chalenge in transition.

Jenny has now heard a recording of my pretend voice and my attempts to use it, and judging by her reply on YIM she was having difficulty breathing.

Quote from: cynthialee on December 14, 2010, 04:56:15 PM
Wish I had that issue.
I find myself droping back into my base voice all the time.
Maintaining a proper voice is my hardest chalenge in transition.

I thought that as well...until I attempted to try and sound like I used to. 

the exact quote is that she sounds like a Constipated Dalek!

it's most disturbing and definitely not natural or believable. 

Quote from: rejennyrated on December 14, 2010, 05:18:20 PM
the exact quote is that she sounds like a Constipated Dalek!

hehehe... Which episode?

Quote from: rejennyrated on December 14, 2010, 05:18:20 PM
the exact quote is that she sounds like a Constipated Dalek!

it's most disturbing and definitely not natural or believable. 

Oh my god     

I would have to hear a recording to know what you mean, but that put the most hilarious picture in my head.

alot of us are fans of the doctor it would seem....

As for voice...mine is naturaly deep and full, base-baritone range. One of the few things about my body that ever completly virilized is my voice. Kinda sucks.

I've seen ever episode ever transmitted in real time - ie was was watching back in 1963.

I have worked on the show when at the BBC.

I did the salvage dubs of all the surviving old episodes when they were digitised.

I went to the first ever Dr who convention.

My observation - the fan base is broader now - but back in the old days if you went to the conventions about 70% of the attendees were LGBT 

I use it occasionally for training purposes only sometimes this strange squelchy tension appears in my voice after awhile makes my voice shrill. When I used it, I only ever said "Aaaaaa" just to check the harmonics at the bottom of my voice to see if it was a problem with my larynx or my actual technique. My body is so much colder now due to lower metabolism I'm always stuffed up and sludgy yuck v.v hate winter.

Another thing I use it for is a base for certain impersonations of people. The female voice isn't any good for that on the plus side I suppose the female voice is good for singing except that I can't sing I can only warble out of tune and I can only do it on certain days when my voice is good... All this crap about eunuchs having great singing voices

A few months ago out of interest I did try speaking a few sentences in my male voice My inflection is extremely distorted from how it was before I sound extremely camp using it. I didn't sound camp at all before now I sound alot like the ultra gay friends I know... Kinda embarrassing.

While I can access it without much difficulty once I stop thinking about it my voice naturally climbs back up to my female range.

I'd like to hear Helena's attempt Dalaks already sound constipated O-o Any more and they'd sound like they were giving birth.

Yeah I can't really find my old voice. If I really try, it comes out much deeper than it really was lol, kinda funny

so Dick van Dalek then... interesting

When I try to 'speak like a man', I sound like a woman trying to speak like a man, as odd as that sounds. lol

I still live part time as a male (work  ) ... So I still have my male voice, but my voice is naturally a higher pitch than most men anyway.  I sing at a contralto/tenor pitch, for example.

What I have noticed, is the vocal inflections are impossible for me to get rid of when I'm in male mode.  I've said it before, I doubt anyone at work will be surprised the day I come out there.

presenting as a guy for work ... so have to use my male voice that I hate so much it sound like the droids from Star Wars!!! although when I get excited I sound very girly

people around me at work will no doubt be very shocked ... as I am very convincing  in my "normal" guy mode although I think they secretly wonder if I am gay...

Quote from: Laruza on December 14, 2010, 09:11:58 PM
When I try to 'speak like a man', I sound like a woman trying to speak like a man, as odd as that sounds. lol

Ha, I can do the "woman trying to sound like a man" voice too... Though I have to intentionally go there to get it...

I still use my male voice everyday at work, but it doesn't sound like it used to. I think hormones thinned out my vocal cords a tad and softened my voice up a bit. I watched old videos of myself from five years ago, and honestly I was surprised at how deep my voice was... I can't seem to access that low range like I used to be able to...

I have discovered a serious downside to trying to speak like a man...i now have a really nasty sore throat.

That'll learn me.

ohmigosh....I SO wish I had that problem!! Mine is the other way around. 

hugs,

--Tina

For all of you who can't sound like a guy anymore, did you originally do a lot of conscious work to improve your female voice and concentrate on maintaining, or did it just slowly come naturally, or what?