/r/transvoice

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A place to share your transgender vocal training related recordings for constructive criticism by the community

Welcome to /r/transvoice

This is a place to share your voice recording for constructive criticism by the community, as well as gather and share resources for vocal training. Please, be respectful of others, this is intended to be a safe place.

Rules:

No Bigotry: Any form of bigotry (transphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, etc) is not permitted.

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Discussion Question Audio/VideoGeneral Resource Event Criticism Wanted Trans-Masc Resource Trans-Femme Resource

Resources and guides

  • resources and guides can be found on our wiki. The list is not as long as we'd like, so please, if you have anything contribute let us know!

  • Join us on discord for fun conversation and instant voice feedback https://discord.gg/BPPMkDu

Quick and easy voice sharing resources

  • Vocaroo: Free and easy voice recording website. Simply record, save, and share.

  • Soundcloud: Simple to use, leaves easy ways for comments.

  • Audioboo: This seems similar to vocaroo. There's a 5 minute time limit, but it seems easy enough.

Some starter tips by /u/fnvt for voice feminization

  • Stay out of falsetto! Falsetto is only useful in finding your head voice, it's not a very good place to go for finding a voice to speak in. Falsetto is the vocal range above your normal vocal range, and you should feel a "break" in your voice as you transition from your normal vocal range up into falsetto

  • Work on your resonance! You should feel no vibrations in your chest when speaking. The target you're looking for is your "head voice"

  • To find your head voice, try pushing your larynx (the thing your adam's apple is attached to) up as far as you can, and attempt to "throw" your voice out of the top of your throat instead of your chest. You should feel vibrations in your mouth, teeth, upper throat and maybe even your nose when you're doing it correctly

  • Once you get your head voice, take your guy voice up into head voice and you should get something that starts to sound female.

  • Talk to yourself in your female voice when no one else is around, so you can build up muscle memory

Some starter tips by /u/Makecab for voice masculinization

  • Humming vowels. After some sirens to help loosen the voice, hum "mmmm" at a low pitch, then open your mouth to speak vowels, i.e. "Mmmm-may, mmmm-me, mmmm-my, mmmm-mo, mmmm-mu". I like this one for pitch: it helps you anchor your voice lower.

  • "Ng" sounds. In a low but comfortable pitch, sing "bing-bong, ding-dong, king-kong" with emphasis on the "ng" sounds. Once you're comfortable with that pitch, you can try going a semitone lower. After a week or so at a certain pitch, you can increase the difficulty by raising your chin to tilt your head back. This one is helpful for both pitch and resonance.

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Where do I even start?

Hi I think my egg started cracking this month I'd love to learn how to do a feminine voice but I really don't even know how to start.

I spent a few hours looking at videos of how to do it. But no matter what I tried I couldn't make a feminine sounding... sound/voice even for a second. At best it was just the "guy trying to imitate a girl" kind of sound or voice. Very forced and unnatural.

So how do I even start when I don't have any baseline to go from?

It feels like If I wanted to build a house but I don't have a foundation.

2 Comments
2024/11/21
14:00 UTC

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Question about transvoicelessons beginner video on resonance

I've watched this video many times over and I'm struggling. I follow along the exercises, and I believe I am able to the voiceless P sounds as well as the big dog small dog whisper. But when I try to transition to a vowel sound or a word, it doesn't sound feminine at all, unlike what she is doing in the video. It sounds different, but not feminine different.

Is this something that takes a lot of time and practice to get? I have no idea if I'm doing something wrong if its just not possible to be achieved without a lot of practice and time.

3 Comments
2024/11/21
10:23 UTC

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Multilingual voice-training?

Hi all! Does anyone here have experience trying to voice-train while being bilingual? Specifically, Spanish-English.

I speak both on a regular basis and am wondering how voice-training would work when switching back and forth

2 Comments
2024/11/21
05:08 UTC

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Acronym for Voice Training?

Is VT an acronym for voice training or is there not one?

4 Comments
2024/11/20
19:17 UTC

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Is this voice achievable for most?

13 Comments
2024/11/20
17:42 UTC

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(MtF) Good songs to sing for voice training?

I'm looking for some songs that would help with voice training. Something I can put on in the car or while doing housework and try to match the voice.

5 Comments
2024/11/20
07:55 UTC

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A lot of amazing voices on here…

Hearing a lot of excellent transfem voices on here. They sound more feminine than my cis female mom. Keep it up friends. ❤️

2 Comments
2024/11/20
04:02 UTC

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I have a girl voice but I feel a strain in my neck

I don't know if it's normal or not, but I have a girly voice and it passes very wel 100% But after high usage of it during the week, I feel a certain strain on the left side on my neck (My pov) and I don't know if that is normal or not? Can someone help me.

7 Comments
2024/11/19
20:52 UTC

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How does trans voice work in relation to altering your voice normally?

Essentially if I want to change how my voice sounds in what way those the concepts related to trans voice apply? I feel like I might want to change the way I sound to better fit myself since I'm already working on my voice but I don't really know how to go about working on this.

10 Comments
2024/11/19
20:23 UTC

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How to make voice deeper for ftm

i can’t get on testosterone yet since i’m still a minor but i really want my voice to be deeper. are there any tips or tricks to do that?

2 Comments
2024/11/19
17:45 UTC

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How do you guys approach closed quotient/vocal weight?

That's the main thing I'm struggling with, I think. I've been training my subharmonic register for longer than I have been voice training (since it's fun to pull out a G2, even if it sounds worse than if a cis guy did it). Now, whenever I try to do the vocal slide exercise I just drop into subharmonics, since that's comfortable for me now. Am I doing something wrong? What am I actively supposed to do to my vocal tract to make my voice heavier? Are there any other exercises for vocal weight or closed quotient?

3 Comments
2024/11/19
16:16 UTC

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I can only girl voice in different accents

Mtf, 1 month of hrt. I’m trying to get good at sounding like a girl, and I’ve honestly found it quite easy. I think I got really lucky as I naturally have a pretty high pitched voice, and most of the time I’ve been lowering my voice even before I realised I was trans to sound more masculine.

my issue is that I can do EVERY ACCENT EXCEPT AUSTRALIAN. I live in Australia, I want an Australian accent.. but I can’t do it. I can’t even imagine an Australian female speak without going ultra bogan with a really thick accent.

for some reason the only times I actually sounded like a girl and passed online is when I’m doing my Philly American accent.. it makes sense because ive listened to a lot of interviews from this actor who is from Philly and I’m definitely subconsciously stealing her voice

should I just go full on Philly, or should I try and learn a whole new language and try and sound Australian again?

7 Comments
2024/11/19
12:56 UTC

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Using the french r to learn a higher tongue position

High yall when practicing for some French and trying to learn how create a guttural r sound I was seeing linguists use the advice of creating a k sound to raise the base of your tongue. While experimenting with my voice ive struggled to really control my resonance and ive found that by using this k sound to raise the back of my tongue and take up more space its a more intuitive way for me increase resonance in a new way.

Is this okay to use for vocal feminization or will it lead to bad habits.

1 Comment
2024/11/19
09:21 UTC

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