Getting A Female Voice

[Guest i is Sam :-)]

So I'm playing with my voice a little, it's not _really_ low naturally but it rumbles, it's very hard to shift the pitch up without it becoming a whisper. I can sort of get a girlish voice but only in a Californian, spoiled brats, let's go to the mall, highschool girls type of accent. What i'm finding hard, is that any voice I make that isn't my own sounds weird and fake to me, like it couldn't belong to anyone, but that's probably just my subjectiveness because I can't connect the voice as coming from me.

I feel way too embarrased at the moment to practice with someone else. So any tips anyone has would be great.

The other thing I'm kinda worried about is laughing, if I find something funny I laugh out load and it's very masculine, since I'm hoping to spend the future being happy, I'm sure it will come up, but can you alter how you laugh? isn't it an autonomic response? I'm guessing the depth and fullness of you laugh has something to do with the tightness of your diaphragm or something like that. do hormones have any effect of that stuff, I've heard they might tighten my vocal cords very slightly but will they do anything about the echo chamber in my chest?

[Guest viv]

Hi Sam,

They say theres a female voice in us all , we just got to work

to "get it"" . There are speech therapists who can help and can be

very successful but at the end of the day its up to you , you get out of

it what you put into it hun. So , like us all , hard work ahead for you.

HRT ,,never heard same changing a persons voice except FTM folk.

Surgery can change the pitch I believe. At the end of the day best

advice is a therapist and plenty of practice and you will get there. viv

[Guest i is Sam :-)]

Oh one other question, should I just be trying to shift my voice up a little bit at a time?

[Guest Charlene_Leona]

My best suggestion for practicing your female voice is to use a web camera and a list of sentences called the Harvard Sentences. Start recording yourself reciting these sentences and playing them back and keep doing this until you find your happy with your voice. Use any of the training videos of you tube and eventually you will be happy with what you develop. It takes time and allot of practice but you will get there.

Charlene Leona

[Guest KaywinnitLeanne]

I actually found youtube extremely helpful on this score. Muchly many videos about voice their, particularly by a woman whose username is CandiFLA, she does a lot of voice videos, several of which are rather entertaining.

[Guest Kieri]

Yep, CandiFLA is very good at changing back and forth. It's kinda creepy sometimes!

I started practicing my own voice when I started therapy last month. I think it's doing very well, but I tend to only be able to talk in a certain range or my throat falls out of the "condition" it has to be in. I also tend to talk with a British accent for some reason. And really oddly, I think I can sing "A Whole New World" just about perfectly and do often in the shower

Anyhoo, probably the best single piece of advice I heard when I was trying to understand the concept is that the female voice sits "behind" the male one. It's kinda hard to wrap your head around at first, but once you hit that point it helps you "know" that's where you're supposed to be. Laughing might be a problem, but I do think once you get used to talking with a female voice your laugh will probably change too.

Hugs,

Kieri