circa half a day ago indigo made a post about their own voice, and that prompted us to open the voice analysis software and see what ours is like. so we just recorded a brief little sample and the pitch analysis showed 223 hz. we then went “huh, that seems a little more than we’d expect” and… turns out it was right.
so we tried talking while trying to put in as little effort as possible. and wouldn’t you know it, it did not change at all, in fact it went up to 231 hz.
so we tried to make our voice lower. not really going for a masc voice but only lower, just because we were curious. and uh 182 hz, and still sounding so much like a girl!
so we tried to go for the most masc voice we could, like an announcer at a nascar race. and… 143 hz and still sounding androgynous.
(typical average pitch ranges)
there is not much consensus on this, but here is one regimen for spoken english:
- “female”: 155 hz and up
- “androgynous”: 135 hz to 165 hz
- “male”: below 145 hz
(the software we use is praat)
our point is that like we can barely do a masculine voice and even then can hardly sustain it.
don’t be mistaken, we really love being able to just sound like a girl! but the loss of that ability has felt a little… frightening? not sure of the best way to put it. maybe its the realization that we are going to have to fully commit to female presenting, no matter what happens?
hope that regardless of what does happen we’ll manage to find some way through it.
take care <3
I’ve notice I can’t sing with a voice as deep as before. And doing my old voice is starting to be harder.
I haven’t found my feminine voice yet. But my voice changed in a more androgynous way. (No by itself though through conscient effort).
I am at the same place currently :)
Still deciding, where I want to go with it. I love both Abigail Thorne and Jamie Clayton’s voices so I might aim for something in that direction <3
That’s cool! I have a friend in a similar position, she insists that she can still boy mode, despite her “boy mode” voice sounding like when a voice actress dubs a barely pubescent boy. At her previous workplace her coworkers got a kick out of every stranger correctly assuming she was a girl and “correcting” them. Tho hearing her story made me feel a lot less anxious about my boy mode, like I don’t need to hide as much.
At her previous workplace her coworkers got a kick out of every stranger correctly assuming she was a girl and “correcting” them.
What the fuck?? Is there something I am missing or is this as insanely transphobic as it sounds?
My wording is a bit confusing, sorry about that.
Her coworkers thought she was a man because she insisted she wasn’t trans when she started working there, she still had M on her ID, so she thought it would be easier to boy mode. They thought she was a femboy while strangers just saw her as is.
Ahh that’s way less bad haha thanks for clarifying!
here is my i really idk what to say but here is some “i dont know what to say” in russian
checking voice on english is a little bit cheat because they sound diffrently
im never voice trained, should im train is?
If you have voice dysphoria, yes.
idk doesnt, but the voice pass or not?
There are some qualities that will probably be perceived as more masculine, but it sounds good!
I’m hearing what some people call brassiness or buzziness, which can be targeted in voice training with a quotient slide exercise.
If you’d like to go a step further and work on vocal fry in general, the gee-heh exercise can help with that.tyyy
Wow, really? From the few transfems that I know IRL, I didn’t think such a change is possible. Thank you for sharing 💜
I’ve read about some being happy to have such a large range of voices after voice training, mainly for theatrical purposes. But I can see how with lack of training, one can get unused to their old voice…
For comparison, when did you start voice training / adjusting your voice? It’s sometimes hard to judge your own voice, but did you consider it androgynous before?
Yeah, it’s a training/use thing. When I was training my voice back in the day, I could still do my old voice, but I had to consciously stop and think about it and try to remember how to do it.
I’ve a naturally large range of voices so it’s easier on the pitch for me, but resonance is still difficult. That said, I’ve been working on it!
Voice training can do a lot!
