Voice Issues

[Guest Eth]

More than ever now I am working on my female voice. I want it SO bad, and I know that the more I practice, the more likely I am to get it sooner. I sent a recording to my friend, asking him what he thought of what I've got so far, and he told me it sounded "like a boy impersonating a girl". He didn't mean that to be mean... He's just honest. Which is good, except that it left me like "uhgggg!" and all depressed. I'm back and working at it today though... And hopefully I'll have it in the months to come.

My goal is to have a good voice that I can feel comfortable using 24/7 before my 16th birthday on October 16.

I would show you guys some samples, but I don't know how... I can't attach them here because the files are too large. Can anyone tell me how I can get my voice files on here? Thanks!

愛 Eth

[Guest nymphblossom]

Hi Eth,

A couple ideas:

Can you shorten your recording to meet the file size limit you can upload here at the Playground?

Do you have a website where you can store the file and then just put a link in your post?

I am thrilled that you are working so hard on your voice and am anxious to hear how you are progressing

Blossom

[Guest Kaze]

Make sure you save the files as mp3 and not wav and you should be able to fit at least one here. The original sample I posted in this forum was around 20 seconds long and still left a decent amount of room in my attachment space. If you do have other files uploaded as attachments here, you can delete some under "My Controls" if there are any you don't need/want up anymore to free up room.

If that doesn't help you'll have to look for other sites to host them on. I used Megaupload.com in my other thread since it is free and doesn't have annoying popup ads or adult themed ones. However, given the lack of response in my thread after my latest post that included a megaupload link, I'm not sure if others here will use it or not. There are other free hosting sites, but I don't know of any places that'd let you put up a direct link to it for free like you can with attachments here.

[Guest Eth]

Hi Eth,

A couple ideas:

Can you shorten your recording to meet the file size limit you can upload here at the Playground?

Do you have a website where you can store the file and then just put a link in your post?

I am thrilled that you are working so hard on your voice and am anxious to hear how you are progressing

Blossom

It would have to be about 3 seconds long so... Nope. And no I don't have a site I can upload it to, that's what I'm asking about. Are there places I can upload it?

愛 Eth

[Guest NicolaiAE]

MediaFire and zippyshare were two that poped up. I've never uploaded a voice recording anywhere before.

Just two sites that came up in a Q/A site. Hope this helps.

-Nicolai

[Guest NatalieRene]

It would have to be about 3 seconds long so... Nope. And no I don't have a site I can upload it to, that's what I'm asking about. Are there places I can upload it?

愛 Eth

Are you recording using a wave file? If it's too large you could use itunes to convert the wave file to a mp3 to compress the file size. here's a guide http://www.premiumbeat.com/articles/how_to...with_itunes.php

[Guest Eth]

MediaFire and zippyshare were two that poped up. I've never uploaded a voice recording anywhere before.

Just two sites that came up in a Q/A site. Hope this helps.

-Nicolai

Thanks, I'll take a look at those sometime soon ^^

愛 Eth

[Guest Eth]

Are you recording using a wave file? If it's too large you could use itunes to convert the wave file to a mp3 to compress the file size. here's a guide http://www.premiumbeat.com/articles/how_to...with_itunes.php

Thanks!

愛 Eth

[Guest Eth]

There wasn't enough room to get both my male voice and my practiced voice on here, so I'm just putting the practiced one up. Tell me what you think of it please, and thanks everyone for all the help. ^^

愛 Eth

[Guest NatalieRene]

Thanks!

愛 Eth

You're welcome.

There wasn't enough room to get both my male voice and my practiced voice on here, so I'm just putting the practiced one up. Tell me what you think of it please, and thanks everyone for all the help. ^^

愛 Eth

You've got a great start. I think once you work on making your voice louder you will be in great shape.

[Guest Eth]

You're welcome.

You've got a great start. I think once you work on making your voice louder you will be in great shape.

Really? My best friend listened to it and told me I sounded like "a boy impersonating a girl"

愛 Eth

[Guest ~Brenda~]

Sweetheart,

For sound, you will have to make a link from here to a free website that lets you post your sound files (typically mp3 format only). www.Muziboo.com is such a free site that I post music to and then reference the link to there. There are many sites like that.

Hope this helps sweetie

Brenda

[Guest Eth]

Sweetheart,

For sound, you will have to make a link from here to a free website that lets you post your sound files (typically mp3 format only). www.Muziboo.com is such a free site that I post music to and then reference the link to there. There are many sites like that.

Hope this helps sweetie

Brenda

Thanks Bernii!

愛 Eth

[Guest CharlieRose]

Woah! I don't know what you look like, so I can't tell if it suits your face and all that. It is certainly a unique voice, perhaps it will get louder over time, but if not, it'll just be a unique thing about you. Johnny Depp has a really really soft, quiet voice like that, too, but, his is male, and I couldn't get a TRACE of guy in that. So, yeah, a unique girl's voice, but totally one I could see in a girl, and one that I doubt will give you away as male. Men impersonating women sound like... something else, not that. They're never that high pitched. It'll get more natural and stuff with time, but you have a heck of a start already.

[Sally]

It sounds like a young girls voice to me, but my sister who is even older than I am has a girls' voice.

She once heard a small child run from the phone to get her mother shouting, "It's that lady that sounds like a little girl!"

When you get a little louder it might drop just a fraction but that will be just fine.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Astro_Liz]

There wasn't enough room to get both my male voice and my practiced voice on here, so I'm just putting the practiced one up. Tell me what you think of it please, and thanks everyone for all the help. ^^

愛 Eth

You really remind me of a softer spoken Maria Bamford. She has a unique voice and I think yours will be much the same when you get the volume up. Great thing about this though, can only compare you to a female voice... because thats what it sounds like! Great job!

<3

~Liz~

[Guest Eth]

Thanks everyone - that's encouraging that I at least sound female XD

愛 Eth

[Guest CharlieRose]

It sounds like a young girls voice to me, but my sister who is even older than I am has a girls' voice.

She once heard a small child run from the phone to get her mother shouting, "It's that lady that sounds like a little girl!"

When you get a little louder it might drop just a fraction but that will be just fine.

Love ya,

Sally

Lol. And, yeah, if it drops that's no biggie. It's not like you don't have leeway.

[Guest NicolaiAE]

Sounds good! Just like everyone said, just practice getting louder.

My voice is kind of neutral, except when I'm asking a question to a stranger (tends to get higher pitched LOL).

Usually when I'm talking on the phone I supposedly sound just like my mom

But really, sounds great!

-Nicolai

[Guest Sara N]

Sounds great and female. Just to be sure I tried putting a male face to that voice and it didn’t

connect. Making it louder might help. There are people with naturally quiet voices.

~Sara

[Guest Pól]

Your phrasing and the way you change the pitch of your voice sounds completely female to me. 100%, no question at all. The only thing is that it sounds like you're whispering. I don't know much about the vocal training all you ladies are talking about, so maybe you'll get louder later. You'd be grand in a library though!