Testing voice!

[Guest Velanna]

I may have recently found out about my being intersex and not being transgender however, I still do have a male voice. Granted it's not a very masculine male voice, but it's still a male voice and I get "sir'd" over the phone. So I still need to practice achieving a more female sounding voice and make it convincing! So....I got a new mic over the mail and decided to test my voice!! All criticism is welcome!

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1YAeDWHhZic

[Guest angels wings]

You kidding practice? You sound wonderful to me .

Stop practicing and enjoy

Angel

[Guest -guest-]

You have absolutely nothing to worry about.

I would instantly peg you as female, and as a producer of radio commercials for fourteen years I worked with a lot of voice talent.

In general, one key to being believable is talking more from the throat than from the diaphragm. Don't become so overly breathy that you sound "sexy", but back off on the epiglottal push that makes a voice sound strong. I'm very soft-spoken, but I can still bring forth the radio voice quite easily. Some men talk loudly all the time, but for others it can be a learned technique.

[Guest]

Giggle, you got it goin on girl! Oh, and welcome to the gurlyboy club! Being both female and male is really cool. I am leaning much more to the female side now. HRT makes my life so much better. You're on your way to your new you!

Oh and smile when you speak, especially on the phone. It helps bring out the fem.

Hug. JodyAnn

[Guest Velanna]

You kidding practice? You sound wonderful to me .

Stop practicing and enjoy

Angel

Thanks!!! I know I've told other members to not worry soo much about their voice if it sounds just fine but I guess it's just that when you hear your own voice it's different and you can't help but feel it doesn't quite sound as you want it to. But, I should heed my own words and not over think it!

You have absolutely nothing to worry about.

I would instantly peg you as female, and as a producer of radio commercials for fourteen years I worked with a lot of voice talent.

In general, one key to being believable is talking more from the throat than from the diaphragm. Don't become so overly breathy that you sound "sexy", but back off on the epiglottal push that makes a voice sound strong. I'm very soft-spoken, but I can still bring forth the radio voice quite easily. Some men talk loudly all the time, but for others it can be a learned technique.

I know. lol It's just that I was in choir for quite a long time so it's become habit to speak through the diaphragm because I sing through my diaphragm. I just have to keep in mind to tone down the use of diaphragm and peak through the throat. And yeah, at first I had a problem with adding too much breathy-ness. My regular male speaking voice is actually very light because I don't have a deep voice at all. My problem isn't so much pitch but inflection and breathy-ness. But I'll get there!

Giggle, you got it goin on girl! Oh, and welcome to the gurlyboy club! Being both female and male is really cool. I am leaning much more to the female side now. HRT makes my life so much better. You're on your way to your new you!

Oh and smile when you speak, especially on the phone. It helps bring out the fem.

Hug. JodyAnn

I don't mean to criticize a compliment, which I am grateful for, but I never felt male so I don't consider myself male in the least. Sure, I can appreciate my masculinity, sure. But in terms of being male, no.

As for the smiling, that's very true!! In fact, I tend to smile when I'm using my female voice completely by habit! I do smile when I speak in my regular speaking voice, but the smile is significantly bigger when I speak in my female voice and it helps a lot!

[Guest chibi_usa]

I may have recently found out about my being intersex and not being transgender however, I still do have a male voice. Granted it's not a very masculine male voice, but it's still a male voice and I get "sir'd" over the phone. So I still need to practice achieving a more female sounding voice and make it convincing! So....I got a new mic over the mail and decided to test my voice!! All criticism is welcome!

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1YAeDWHhZic

Sounds good. I would have always thought you were a GG.

[Guest Velanna]

Thanks, chibi! I also found out that it's a good voice because I play online video games and decided to use the voice to see how well it passed and everyone in the video game referred to me as she and her!! A few thought I was a young boy with a light a voice but they would typically either correct themselves or get corrected by someone else! It's truly a wonderful feeling to know that your voice is passable! Just to work on finding a therapist!

[Guest Dorothy Lynne]

Sounded great. You settled down in the later part and at the end a little deeper which actually sounded more normal. Hope to get it as right as you did . Practice, practice, practice.

Has anyone noticed that on TV that women are interviewed they are tending to deepen their voices with a touch of rasp when they want to be taken seriously about a subject?? Maybe its just me.

[Guest LizMarie]

You sound astounding to my admittedly poor ears! I would not question your voice for one second based on what I just heard in that sample.

[Guest sonmi-451]

You sounded a little nasal and congested but I noticed you posted during the height of flu season.

I would definitely have assumed the speaker to be female with no other indications.

Since it has been three months... do you have an update?

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[Guest Nikkichick33]

You sound great!!! I dont see how you still get sir'ed over the phone. I would love to sound that good:)

Nikki.

[Guest sophia.gentry58]

Yeah, I agree with everyone else, you do sound very much like a female and like Nikkichick said, "how you still get sir'ed over the phone" is beyond my comprehension. Let's get a 'listen to' at where you are in your progress thus far.

Sophia

[Guest Velanna]

Yeah, I agree with everyone else, you do sound very much like a female and like Nikkichick said, "how you still get sir'ed over the phone" is beyond my comprehension. Let's get a 'listen to' at where you are in your progress thus far.

Sophia

Well I get sir'd over the phone because I use my male voice. I use it when I'm doing things like checking my credit for my credit card and such. Things that require for them to know it's the person who's listed with them lol But when I talk to my friends, or order for food and such I use my female voice and typically get ma'amed although there was an instance where I was sir'd but they quickly corrected themselves. Not sure why that happened, haha!