Are you any good at impersonations? You could always pick a woman who's voice you like and copy them. I have a friend who did that. She dramatically changed her accent, which was weird but she also definitely sounds feminine.
Yeahhh. I do like doing a high voice at our cat but as soon as she leaves or I do it for more than a moment then I start to feel a crushing awkwardness. At least I can practice a little a few moments at a time here and there
I've gotten used to mst3k-ing the video games I'm playing for the cats when they're in the room. I'm not funny enough to be a streamer, but I'm funny enough for them.
So do i, especially my singing voice (if Jonny Cash sang an octave lower). But my voice has always bothered me, as in it's the changeable thing that gives me most dysphoria (well that and the hair). I've always felt a shudder down my spine whenever I head a recording of my voice. So I can't imagine not training my voice.
I get self conscious about my voice because I did vocal training in my youth to deepen my voice. I'm not sure if I could train it to be more feminine at all
Then you have experienced that voice training do indeed work! As a musician, doing voice training have open up my singing range both upwards and downwards.
I can't wait to be finished with my SLT apprenticeship to be able to give voice training to trans folk :) It's also on our curriculum for our voice therapy classes - looking forward to it.
Only thing I don't know right now is if I'll be able to give tips to transfem as a cis male. Maybe with sufficient experience or advanced training courses
As someone who has looked into voice training a lot, at least the basic ideas I'm sure you can. None of it is necessarily specific to transfems and I would assume all the mechanisms behind feminizing your voice will be covered. The part that people might ask about that's more specific is probably which parts are most important for being recognized as feminine (and the answer from what I gathered is kinda just "it's complicated but it's not just pitch").
what I gathered is kinda just “it’s complicated but it’s not just pitch”).
i'm a musician, so this is the way i think of it: men sound like woodwinds, women sound like strings. sometimes the pitches overlap, but usually women are an octave higher. if you start as a lyric soprano and can stretch yourself down to alto, or as a bass stretching yourself up to a tenor, you can get the rest of the way to "passing" just by changing your tone and cadence.
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UnixSlvt42@piefed.blahaj.zone · 76 pts · 330d
Why doesn't she- the bigger one- not simply eat the other one?
Oh, she does? Perhaps humans are more ruthless than I thought.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 30 pts · 329d
So ruthless sometimes the smaller one eats the bigger one
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 329d
Humans are strange, not bad, but they have a lot of things they need to get over.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 327d
I'd eat both
Estiar@sh.itjust.works · 53 pts · 330d
The only voice training I need to hear is how loud you can howl >:3
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 27 pts · 330d
AARRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 329d
moves your castle
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 329d
MIAO
DexiMachina@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
Pretty loud if Werewolves of London is playing.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml · 52 pts · 329d
Mann I really wanna try to voice train but hearing my own voice regularly is already kinda embarrassing, let alone trying to do new things with it
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 34 pts · 329d
If you find your current voice embarrassing, then your new voice can only be better 👍😁
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 329d
Are you any good at impersonations? You could always pick a woman who's voice you like and copy them. I have a friend who did that. She dramatically changed her accent, which was weird but she also definitely sounds feminine.
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 329d
Sadly I'm terrible at impressions, and I hate trying to do them because I feel like I always embarrass myself even when I'm alone 😅
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 329d
aww that's the fun of impressions. if you don't like embarrassing yourself in front of the cats i don't see how you could enjoy doing them
BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 328d
Yeahhh. I do like doing a high voice at our cat but as soon as she leaves or I do it for more than a moment then I start to feel a crushing awkwardness. At least I can practice a little a few moments at a time here and there
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d
I've gotten used to mst3k-ing the video games I'm playing for the cats when they're in the room. I'm not funny enough to be a streamer, but I'm funny enough for them.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 38 pts · 330d
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 26 pts · 330d
They are still boÞ sooo hotttt🔥🫠
Sarothazrom@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 329d
Not as hot as someone who uses Thorn in internet comments 🥵
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 9 pts · 329d
😘🫶
deacon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 329d
That is really fucking ſexy.
QueenMidna@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 329d
Wait there's people who might like that I don't voice train?
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 329d
I like cuties as they are, with deep voices or perfectly fem passing ones. It's not a major factor for me.
QueenMidna@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 329d
Well I've got one of those
Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 329d
So do i, especially my singing voice (if Jonny Cash sang an octave lower). But my voice has always bothered me, as in it's the changeable thing that gives me most dysphoria (well that and the hair). I've always felt a shudder down my spine whenever I head a recording of my voice. So I can't imagine not training my voice.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 329d
Deep-voiced women 🤤
QueenMidna@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 329d
I get self conscious about my voice because I did vocal training in my youth to deepen my voice. I'm not sure if I could train it to be more feminine at all
DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 1 pts · 303d
Then you have experienced that voice training do indeed work! As a musician, doing voice training have open up my singing range both upwards and downwards.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 329d
yeah there's people like me. i mean i'm taken, but i know we exist
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 329d
I can't wait to be finished with my SLT apprenticeship to be able to give voice training to trans folk :) It's also on our curriculum for our voice therapy classes - looking forward to it.
Only thing I don't know right now is if I'll be able to give tips to transfem as a cis male. Maybe with sufficient experience or advanced training courses
LwL@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 329d
As someone who has looked into voice training a lot, at least the basic ideas I'm sure you can. None of it is necessarily specific to transfems and I would assume all the mechanisms behind feminizing your voice will be covered. The part that people might ask about that's more specific is probably which parts are most important for being recognized as feminine (and the answer from what I gathered is kinda just "it's complicated but it's not just pitch").
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 329d
i'm a musician, so this is the way i think of it: men sound like woodwinds, women sound like strings. sometimes the pitches overlap, but usually women are an octave higher. if you start as a lyric soprano and can stretch yourself down to alto, or as a bass stretching yourself up to a tenor, you can get the rest of the way to "passing" just by changing your tone and cadence.
thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 329d
It's very true.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 330d
chaga chaga chu chu