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How Would You Rate Your Voice?

Guest Zenda

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Guest Zenda

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Kia Ora,

{ I should have added this onto the other poll, oh well]

For both guys and girls… :friends:

:rolleyes: Prior to transitioning how would you rate your voices?

Do/did you already sound somewhat female/male that is, have an androgynous sounding voice?

Or do/did you have a very pronounced birth sex voice?

:ThanxSmiley:

I'm off to bed... :bedtime:

Metta Zenda :)

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Guest Jenth

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Greetings Zenda,

I love all your questions. I rate my voice as very female pre transition. I was blessed that way, and with a little work I've even improved my voice I think.

Heathy

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I rate my voice a 7. But I don't know whether who is lying, and if my iphone is a good voice recorder, and because it is your own voice, you're used to it so you can't really know fer sure -__-""...

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Guest Donna Jean

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Slightly higher male range......

But, I was never "Ma'am'd" on the phone back then....

I am now...and I had no surgery/pills/professional training/magic/witches spells....

Donna Jean

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Guest sarah f

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Before I had to work on making my voice more male sounding. Then I had to try and change my voice back when I finally started to accept who I was. That was the really hard part.

I would suggest to anyone out there to not change your voice because others are making fun of you sounding like a girl. I really regret changing it now as it was hard to get back to where I was.

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Guest Elizabeth K

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Between - in that male/female overlap. I get the female part with inflection and vocabulary, and adding a questioning upward lilt at the end?

Lizzy

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Hi Zenda,

I'm not sure what's happening. When I'm out dressed, this voice comes from nowhere! I don't really try - It's just there lurking, like the rest of my femme personna - not out and visible most of the time. But, in general, my voice is pretty bad - ranges from hoarse to gutteral! I plan on spending time with a speech therapist to try to banish that noise forever.

At our last TG support group, there were two women who had just had voice surgery. Their voices were quite hoarse, but only a few months after the surgery - improvement was expected for both of them. They both demonstrated their voice ranges, and it was impressively higher than any male voice would be.

But I'd consider it only because my voice box is damaged from acid reflux over the years - if speech therapy can't help. it's another option.

Love, Kat

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Guest Zenda

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Kia Ora Gauvain,

One of my F2M friends [who when I first met him had been on T for just over a year]sounds like an effeminate 'male', he said the first thoughts of those who meet him is, :rolleyes: "He must be 'gay'!", even though he recently got married[civil union]to his 'female' partner...He don't really care if some see 'him' as [a still in the closet] 'gay' just so long as they don't see him as female.

I haven't spoken to him for over a year now, it's possible his voice has gotten deeper...

Kia Ora Kat,

:rolleyes: It's quite possible in some cases 'clothing does make the woman or man' the more feminine one dresses [or visa verse] the more one takes on the characteristics[both speech and mannerisms] of the gender one presents as...Perhaps one becomes more relaxed which allow their true gender identity to flow/show through...

Kia Ora Sarah,

Quite a few years back I was asked to give this 'woman' a call regarding a pest problem she was having I was talking to whom I believed was this woman over the phone[this was before I was 'out'] and was convinced this person was 'female', there was no question in my mind of this person not being female. However when I visited the house I was met by both the woman and her 'husband' who reached out to shake my hand and said "I spoke to you on the phone thank for coming!", I was taken back :doh1: , he was the person who spoke to me on the phone, there was no maleness whatsoever in his voice...I'm not saying he was 'transgender' or for that matter effeminate in any other way apart from his voice...

:rolleyes: So what you're saying about you having been blessed with a natural 'female' voice, [even though being born into a male body], is quite understandable, and in your case a bonus[however I'm not too sure whether the person I met back then thought his voice was a blessing]...

Metta Zenda :)

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Guest Tara Ann

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When I'm nervous or have to speak unexpectedly my voice is very female sounding. I've been mistaken for female on the phone more than once. Unfortunately I can't bring it out on cue and as for the way women actually talk that's an absolute mystery to me. I don't know where to start on that one.

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Guest Aries

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Depends... sometimes I think I nail it and other times I want to crawl in a hole or bury my face it's so bad.

I have had rare few opportunities to practice but I got a tip recently on this site that helped worlds! Now I am trying to find a time & place to work on it but I'm not getting very lucky for the most part. I think with practice it would become very natural... here's hopin'!

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Guest LottieZero

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Nowadays I'd say my voice was reasonably good; I get ma'amed on the phone (haven't been sirred in about a year) and I would say it fits in with my presentation. (Actually, I'd probably say my voice makes people sure I'm a girl if they're uncertain...) It's not perfect, though; I'm not brilliant at speaking loudly, and although my pitch is generally around 170Hz, it can dip below that at times, especially if I have a blocked throat.

If you'd asked the same question 3 years ago, though... I'd say my voice was terrible, and it really was. It was really low - about 100Hz and sometimes lower! - and had been since just before my 13th birthday (lousy early male puberty :angry:). You could never in a million years mistake it for a female voice, and I got really depressed about it, because I could never pass while speaking as I did. But a mix of constant practising using materials from the internet and speech therapy really helped me, and after about 2 years of working on it constantly, I did actually get somewhere. :)

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I haven't begun to transition yet, but I think voice is gonna be one of the most difficult parts. To give you an idea, my voice is kinda halfway between Barry White and Adam Carolla or Gilbert Gottfried.

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I haven't begun to transition yet, but I think voice is gonna be one of the most difficult parts. To give you an idea, my voice is kinda halfway between Barry White and Adam Carolla or Gilbert Gottfried.

Really not a problem. My fundamental frequency pre-transition was 87Hz. I don't know where Barry White is, but I used to do a pretty mean James Earl Jones impression.

The key is learning how to control the appropriate muscles in your neck and throat, then getting that into your "muscle memory" so you can stop thinking about it. The amount of overlap between "male" and "female" is so wide that you can wind up in the "female" range, even if towards the low end.

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This one is tough...

Maybe a 4 out of 10. Just south of androgynous.

My pitch is well within the female range but I definitely resonate from the chest judging by the sound on the phone. Allergies and dust inhalation give me kind of a harsh, gravelly timbre, too. There are women who have that scratchy kind of voice but it's harder to get away with. My vocabulary and speaking patterns are effeminate to the point that it annoys old people like my grandfather and I learned from my Sicilian mother to gesture with outstretched fingers a lot. Coughing and sneezing all spring, simmer and fall brings the whole thing crashing down, though.

However, I can sing almost perfectly passably as a female alto. I spend most days trying to figure out what I'm doing differently and kind of rectify my normal speaking voice to match.

-Valerie

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My voice before hormones was low female range, now it's more of a high male I think.

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