I had some voice lessons in the past month and they're helpful but I feel like when I do a 30 min session of singing in a higher range I don't hear and difference in voice clips. I'm not really sure what to do in terms of practice, my voice always sounds super artificial when I bring it up to a higher range. (and I know it will for a while but I can't seem to get it to a place I like consistently) Anyways I know a big tip is keeping it at a higher range more and more just in every day conversation and such but I'm unsure what I can do for strengthing practice to feel like I have a wider more natural range. Thanks.

I've been on T for six months, and my voice has changed since the beginning but I can't hear it easily.

When I do try to lower my voice, or speak in a way that feels more comfortable for my changing voice, to me it sounds like it has a lot of vocal fry or is so loud it's echoing in my ears and I can't hear anything else around me.

I do have autism, and my sense of hearing tends to cause me the most sensory issues. Has anybody else had difficulty with hearing their own voice, or changing it causing them sensory problems?

How could I reduce the booming "echo" of a deeper or louder voice? I feel like I have to whisper in a higher voice or else it just hurts.

When I talk my pitch fluctuates and as far as I can tell it is in a feminine way, my pronunciation is ok, not perfect and vowels need some work but aren’t terrible.

I literally don’t know what to do now, I’ve watched so many videos, read so many posts and posted my own audios and I either can’t hear my own issue or just can’t fix what I’ve been told the issue is. Everything sounds ok individually too, all features on there own are ok until I actually put them together to speak.

I’ve tried so so hard on my voice and it’s not improving and I’m totally lost. This voice doesn’t really have much of a point tbh, but maybe if anyone has any suggestions on how to fix a voice that sounds wrong/masculine when all components are ok I’d love to hear cause I’m lost.

Hello there all you beautiful people.

One of your friendly neighborhood voice teachers here with another observation about the process that will hopefully aid many of you students (and maybe even some of you other teachers out there as well!).

The pattern I see plaguing many students is in how we shape our thoughts around our voice between dichotomies of "right" and "wrong", "good" or "bad", "masculine" or "feminine".

Regardless of our specific goals, many of us end up simplifying our feelings into these two overall pockets of judgment and in so doing, I have found that many people then run into creating what they feel is an "artificial sounding voice".

When we deal solely in these perspectives our voices tend to lock in specific aspects in our voice because much of our early training is based in the art of learning to control these aspects as much as possible. The reason that this is a harmful way of thought is because we lose a vital sense of nuance in our voice that not only makes our voice beautifully unique, but also can then make it harder for our voice to exist in various surroundings/ambient noise levels. In many cases, the people that I work with either feel that their voice doesn't represent who they are (despite doing everything "right) and can become really frustrated until we've had this very conversation.

The truth is our voices, like the rest of our body, must adapt and will change all through our lives. Whether it's age, allergies, sickness, pollution, ambient noise level, or even our very orientation to the ground below us, there is a seemingly endless amount of things that we have to subconsciously consider before we can choose which voice that we want.

With that in mind, the best way to get around this hurdle is luckily somewhat straightforward and that's that you should EXPERIMENT as much as you can with your voice!

Make sounds that are intentionally different from what you're used to. Feel free to go into the opposite direction for some of your vocal features even if it's not what you want in the long run to regain even further control over your voice. Intentionally try to "overshoot" whatever your vocal targets are and see what happens and how you can adjust after that.

Try using an intentionally modified voice in different environments like crowded areas and over the phone or in a library to see how you can make adjustments to your voice to allow it to be audible to others. Look at your unfortunate cold symptoms as an opportunity to find a different voice that doesn't take as much effort to make but makes you feel confident even while you're sick or suffering from allergies.

Overall, embrace the journey of vocal modification and not merely the goal. Try to have fun and don't be afraid to get a little silly when you try this just to see what other lessons you may discover from the results! Just because this process can be really emotional at times doesn't mean we have to make ourselves suffer uneccessarily!

Thanks for reading, and best of luck everyone I'm rooting for you!!