Voice with a cold

[Guest SusanB]

Just wondering,

I haven't started working on my voice yet but, i've had a really bad cold the past few days.

How do you maintain your voice when you have a cold ?

I sure dont sound like a girl when i cough, does this change along with the voice ?

[Guest Sarah Faith]

Believe it or not, I have actually worked on having a female sounding cough.. lol. I almost never get sick though so I'm not sure how it would hold up when/if the actual hacking coughs started. Probably not well! I wish I had more to contribute to this but I haven't been sick in 3 years lol.

[Guest]

If you will pass me my cigarettes, please, I will answer you. Coughing and sneezing can be a give away. Although an illness can give a female a lower raspy voice too, when I learned to speak from my head instead of my chest, the problem was lessened. People that know me, think my voice cjhanged from hormones, we know different. Someone else has better advice than me I'm sure. Oops, my java is done in the nuke. I love the coffee and hate the smokes. Somehow they seem to go hand in hand. If I give them up again, I won't have to practice on my smoker's cough. Giggle. Constricting my airway and covering my mouth well, seems to change the pitch a little too.

Sorry your sick dear, get well soon. Smoky smelling hug. Jody

[Charlize]

I've had that experience of people saying the hormones have changed my voice. I wish it was the case. i think it is in the ear of the beholder. When i cough all bets are off but i've learned to take my sneezes to a higher note at the end. I just hope they don't pop the wig off.

Hugs,

Charlie

[Guest SusanB]

Cartoon visual Charlie LOL

[Guest chibi_usa]

In my opinion I think that after you found your girl voice and your comfortable with it everything kinda becomes more girlier. I dunno how to explain. The only things that I couldn't do are scream and squeal. It feels too awkward for me to do so I still can't lol. Anyways as I was saying that "tightness" with your throat. If your able to maintain it then whether you laugh or cough it'd sound like a girl. Mine does at least... At least I think it does... O.o"" Never asked anyone about it but no one ever said anything. Lol!

[KathrynJulia]

In my voice lessons, my voice coach has trained me in coughing and sneezing feminine. We use a recorder and now it is second nature.

In my female voice CD's they push a voice in A3. For most MTF over time, A3 will cause voice nodules. I'm now learning a G3 tone. They are having me practicing forward focus speaking, Elongated vowels and word emphasis training. I'm really surprised at my progress. It's expensive, but it's working. Peop-le who do not know of my transition have asked me why my voice sounds so different. A lot of it isn't tone and pitch. It's pronunciation and emphasis and word choice, along with sentence structure.

I do a great deal of having speaking to others while recording with my iPad and then analyzing my speech patterns. Spotting male speech patterns and avoiding them. Instead speaking with female speach patterns.

They listened and compared my old voice message on my phone with how I now speak. I can't believe I talked and sounded like that. My assignment before tomorrows trsaining was to record a new outgoing message with a feminine one. That where I am now with my speach and voice.

Kathryn

[Guest JazzySmurf]

Hi Susan, I think it comes as a second stage... first being just getting the voice ok in ordinary circumstances, and then things like coughing, sneezing, whispering, laughing, volume (i.e., being able to project one's voice), and more. So, as chibi said, one first masters the "tightness" in the throat and then, like, apply it to other circumstances. Good luck on your voice work!