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Tuesday January 29th, I begin professional voice therapy. After a year of working hard at improving my feminine voice utilizing several voice programs, I decided on professional therapy. The University of Missouri has a Speach and Hearing Clinic where I am working with a Post Doc.

I can produce a pretty good voice when I want to, but I want to improve one step higher, so I'll meet with my therapist Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9:00 to 10:00 am. Taping my voice and having it evaluated by professionals leaves the hope of having an excellent feminie voice when I am full time.

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Thats a great move. I should probably make more of an effort to work on my voice. Thanks for the reminder. I have just allowed that issue to drop away because nobody seems to jump up and say 'guy' when i open my mouth. At least not to my "pretty" face.

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Tuesday January 29th, I begin professional voice therapy. After a year of working hard at improving my feminine voice utilizing several voice programs, I decided on professional therapy. The University of Missouri has a Speach and Hearing Clinic where I am working with a Post Doc.

I can produce a pretty good voice when I want to, but I want to improve one step higher, so I'll meet with my therapist Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9:00 to 10:00 am. Taping my voice and having it evaluated by professionals leaves the hope of having an excellent feminie voice when I am full time.

I think you should help everyone with excercises you learned. Like. You should take notes and share them with us! <3

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Gather around Ladies:

Here's how things are going. First of all, therapy is for the spring semester and is thirteen weeks long, twice a week I meet with my therapist and she is really nice. She is supervised by one of the Professors. The cost for the semesters is $700.00. Because I'm an employee of the University, I get a 10% discount, so my cost was $630.00 for the semester.

Right now I'm working on forward focus and ending sentences using elongated vowels. Women tend to use elongated vowels to end a sentence when they speak. I'm also learning forward focus which is speaking in the upper area of the throat. Men tend to speak in lower portion of the larnyx which causes male overtones,

My assignment for next week is to practice speaking with elongated vowels and to read Speaking as a Woman, third Edition by Alison Lang and to practice forward focus for next Tuesday which is my next appointment.

I'll give reagular reports of my progress. They are taking recordings during every exercise. The goal is to remove the masculin overtones from my voice and to improve feminine pronunciation while maintaining feminine tone. I've used several programs and it has certainly helped. But the therapists are approaching from a different direction to produce a permanent change in my voice structure. Kathryn

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Gather around Ladies:

Here's how things are going. First of all, therapy is for the spring semester and is thirteen weeks long, twice a week I meet with my therapist and she is really nice. She is supervised by one of the Professors. The cost for the semesters is $700.00. Because I'm an employee of the University, I get a 10% discount, so my cost was $630.00 for the semester.

Right now I'm working on forward focus and ending sentences using elongated vowels. Women tend to use elongated vowels to end a sentence when they speak. I'm also learning forward focus which is speaking in the upper area of the throat. Men tend to speak in lower portion of the larnyx which causes male overtones,

My assignment for next week is to practice speaking with elongated vowels and to read Speaking as a Woman, third Edition by Alison Lang and to practice forward focus for next Tuesday which is my next appointment.

I'll give reagular reports of my progress. They are taking recordings during every exercise. The goal is to remove the masculin overtones from my voice and to improve feminine pronunciation while maintaining feminine tone. I've used several programs and it has certainly helped. But the therapists are approaching from a different direction to produce a permanent change in my voice structure. Kathryn

Yes! Do a voice recording of your speeches and teaches and then post it up on a different post. Or even better a blog of what you learn every session as well as a voice recording so it's much more easier to read and learn! <3

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Can't do that ladies. I'm not allowed to tape record my sessions. They record my sessions for teaching and educational purposes purposes, but they have to protect my sessions due to HIPPA rules. I had to sign multiple documents to begin with. I can detail my experiences and I'll dig out my Dragon Naturally Speaking microphone and record my starting voice practicing my homework this weekend as I'm not violating anything recording from home. And I'll try setting up a blog and post my voice. Kathryn

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Can't do that ladies. I'm not allowed to tape record my sessions. They record my sessions for teaching and educational purposes purposes, but they have to protect my sessions due to HIPPA rules. I had to sign multiple documents to begin with. I can detail my experiences and I'll dig out my Dragon Naturally Speaking microphone and record my starting voice practicing my homework this weekend as I'm not violating anything recording from home. And I'll try setting up a blog and post my voice. Kathryn

Ya! Well can't you do it at home then? XD Just remember what you did there and record it at home. Your not doing it in their place your doing it at home! ;P

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I just went to my second voice therapy session. Its amazing the difference they can make in just a week!

Really positive experience, I'd recommend it as they know the best ways to help.

On a side note, apparently my voice is already on the upper scale of "male" and I should be a singer... Although I always thought my singing was horrible lol

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My voice teacher called to let me know that classes were cancelled due to a big snow storm. That's when she heard my outgoing message and recorded it and played it back to her Professor. Wow, what a change in my voice. I made the old outgoing message 7 years ago and had never changed it. We compared it to my new voice message. The voices were like from two different people, one male and one female.

My voice has really changed. I've been working on it for about 15 months now and my old voice doesn't sound like me at all. It's working. :D Kathryn

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