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Trans Voice Help
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Hi! This community exists as a place for trans people of all genders (or gender fluidity, or non-binary etc.) to help them overcome the challenges of being able to speak normally as their preferred gender. Upload audio clips, screenshots from analyzers, or what ever you feel like in order to get feedback and help perfected the voice you have into a state where you are comfortable.
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Keeping my vocal wave dynamic and bouncy whilst also remaining mostly above my anchor pitch. I find that I'll often bottom out at my anchor pitch too early in a sentence but it doesn't feel like a natural path of my vocal wave to spring back up again. Its the woooorst. I end up sounding quite monotone and unnatural at the ends of sentences as a result sometimes
I find it can be helpful to try to think of it more like acting - sometimes I produce a more fem voice when I am mocking a woman with a hyper-fem girly voice - and whoa, what do you know, I can maintain a high voice with a feminine cadence and end all my sentences on an up-pitch, etc.
It's really about how I am thinking or projecting myself - and it's so dysphoric to realize the problem is that I'm not naturally feminine ... though it's probably more accurate to say, I have to re-program the way I speak, and that's a painful process like any other part of transition.
Mmhm, I get that too. For me, my natural/muscle memory vocal wave is very typically feminine in shape, its just at a masc pitch. I need to effectively just transpose that bad boy up and I'd be golden, but maintaining the same vocal wave at a higher pitch just slowly wiggles its way down over a while
yeah, I just need to practice, really - the same way I changed other parts of my voice. For whatever reason I'm just struggling with pitch. I think part of it is that my ear is not trained well enough - my ability to "hear" when my pitch is in the right place vs the wrong place is really weak, and so I overcompensate and shoot too high (because I can't hear when it's at the right pitch), and also sometimes when it's too low it can sound higher to me on the inside ... so, some of this is really about ear-training, as well.
And yes, it's pretty typical for anyone's speech to get lower and more monotone - esp. when listing things or at the end of sentences. So it's just a skill to listen for that and prevent it from going too low. I worked on that with a speech language pathologist - she would have me list things and work on noticing the pitch going down and bringing it back up, and establishing a better baseline.
Yeah my voice therapist was very good in this vein as well. All that's left for me is practice
Re: ear training, it might be worth trying to get your hands on some aural training books intended for musicians - I'd say my ear for pitch is very heavily improved by having done that sort of stuff