A Shortcut 2 Get A Girl>girlier Voice?

[Guest chibi_usa]

Ok I noticed that wen i do a girl voice and i lean my head back its REALLY hard 2 like talk, everytime i talk i sound like a guy. If I can get used 2 it that would improve my girl voice right? O_o Soooo should i do that or will it ruin my voice/throat? O_o

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Voice training is tricky. There are a few postings on this topic already and a few recommended CD programs and DVD shows on how to do it. You can strain your voice, but I doubt you can ruin it permanently

CAUTION - I have been working on my girl vice for two months - it takes a lot of practice. So to answer your question I can only say what seems to work for me... and then it doesn't always work at all.

My girl voice seems to come out of a falsetto - and once you train your throat to fit that shape, you can refine the sound in pitch until it is real. The rest is learning to ennunciate and use a vocabulary like a woman does. Women actually sing out their sentences, using a wonderful lilt. Most sentences end upward like a question? They slightly clip the first sylable and draw out the last one. Esses are particularly stressed by women in speach, but not as a lisp. And it seems body language and gestures will convey as much as the actual voice, if done correctly. To speak like a female we have to essentually be female in mind and attitude. Women never declare, they suggest, or so I have been told?. Women rarely shorten words so do not do that (rather than don't do that).

Just a few observations?

Melanie Speaks - is a good place to google as she lists a lot of hints in her site. Stealth Productions is another. Transvoice(is that right?) has been mentioned.

So good luck to you...

[Sally]

The best tip that I heard (and remembered) was not to try to go for too high of a voice. In general most girl's voices are about a fifth higher than a male's. On a piano if you speack at a middle 'c' then you would ant to raise that to a 'g'. If you do not have a piano, try singing - starting on your normal speaking pitch and sing the scale, do, re, mi, fa, so - stop you are there. From this pitch you have room for the much wider range of inflections up and down. If like me, it's still to lowthen you can go for the octave because you have already built a base at a higher pitch.

Hope that helps,

Sally

[Guest AniStacy]

Hey Chibi check out my post in this forum

http://www.lauras-playground.com/forums/in...?showtopic=5406

I thinks its more simplex then your average vocal training and it shows the nessecary techniques. I'm reading up on some other stuff and waiting for my audio equiptment to be replaced and then I'll put the rest up ^^ thats all for now!

<3 Stacey

Byyyeee

[Guest Elizabeth K]

Yes - Stacy's post - that's one I read - excellant!

[Guest chibi_usa]

Huh..... I tried it and so far it kinda uhhh >_> kinda made me not sound like a guy much anymore >__< My dads like..... why do u sound like a pre-teen wen i talk normally.... But I can speak perfectly like a girl now ^^ without straining at all O_O

P.S. Doing this is pretty painful ... Ummm anyways how i did it was by saying my ABC's 2x's bfore sleeping like cuz u know... abcs go high then low then high

[Guest Emily_MI]

I just got the software Deep Stealth which is suppose to work wonders(with lots of practice of course) so I am very interested to see how much of a different it will make after I start using it more and more(which trust me I will! ), I hate the way I sound now so anything to help me start sounding more and more feminine I am all about.

[Guest Elizabeth K]

I just got the software Deep Stealth which is suppose to work wonders(with lots of practice of course) so I am very interested to see how much of a different it will make after I start using it more and more(which trust me I will! ), I hate the way I sound now so anything to help me start sounding more and more feminine I am all about.

That's the one I use. I was using it in the cat (the DVD) and practicing 1 hr in and 1 hr out, commuting (which is hard because of the traffic noise). At first it semed impossible, but eventually, using the vowel exercises (pinched - breathy) I was able to get the spot in my throat and vocal chords. Its located in the back of the throat, and it takes training the muscles to keep it. It works well with the Melanie Speaks tapes although the two don't reference each other at all.

Its really a modified faulsetto that we lost when we went through pubetry and started using the male voice routinely. If you ever do cartoon voices you can reach the spot. Even if you don't have that talent, that's about where it is. I mickey mouse voice (not minnie mouse yet).

I am now using it to recite poetry to practice. It not going to be as perfect as the guide voice - but it is good. If you watched 'Sex Change Hospital" and heard Dr. Marci Bowers, (terrible name - hear Dr. Bowers was appauled) thats what I can do now. I have gone up in pitch about three notes over my upper most reach at first, but more importantly i can use a feminine speech pattern and presenttion now. That is helpful.

Yes - practice.

I finally can get female recognition on the telephone (use with telemarketers and people who don't know you.)

Good luck

Lizzy

[Guest AniStacy]

Heehee I love my voice. If i ever stop procrstinating I'll put some wavs and stuff up

but baisically people think i'm my mother or sister, lol if they don't know i'm transitioning

My own brother even made the mistake!!!

Its the whispery resonance that make the difference... and my age the younger you are the easier it is "set" your voice as it were.

Also I have advanced vocal training

be sure to reccord myself on a day off or something

Hugs peeps

<3 Stacy

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

I work on the front desk of a major hotel and since Ive started this process Ive been noticing women's voices. Most of the more mature women dont quite have the resonance y'all are talking about. For those of us who are basses, and taller in height we could get away with taking the hard edges off our voices.

By that I mean soften the voice so it looses resonance in a larger room, more like the voice you would use to speak to your sweety over a romantic dinner (from a male perspective). Its not the voice you want the next table to hear. I dont know how to explain it more than that, at 6'2 i would have an interesting time supporting a voice in the high tennor range considering its all I can do to get to the top of the bass register.