Was just wondering what aspects of your voice you’re currently working on?

My issue is mostly that I drop my pitch a bit too low, which invites a heavier weight and sounds too masculine to my ears.

How about you?

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    3 个月前

    I find it can be helpful to try to think of it more like acting - sometimes I produce a more fem voice when I am mocking a woman with a hyper-fem girly voice - and whoa, what do you know, I can maintain a high voice with a feminine cadence and end all my sentences on an up-pitch, etc.

    It’s really about how I am thinking or projecting myself - and it’s so dysphoric to realize the problem is that I’m not naturally feminine … though it’s probably more accurate to say, I have to re-program the way I speak, and that’s a painful process like any other part of transition.

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      3 个月前

      Mmhm, I get that too. For me, my natural/muscle memory vocal wave is very typically feminine in shape, its just at a masc pitch. I need to effectively just transpose that bad boy up and I’d be golden, but maintaining the same vocal wave at a higher pitch just slowly wiggles its way down over a while

      • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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        3 个月前

        yeah, I just need to practice, really - the same way I changed other parts of my voice. For whatever reason I’m just struggling with pitch. I think part of it is that my ear is not trained well enough - my ability to “hear” when my pitch is in the right place vs the wrong place is really weak, and so I overcompensate and shoot too high (because I can’t hear when it’s at the right pitch), and also sometimes when it’s too low it can sound higher to me on the inside … so, some of this is really about ear-training, as well.

        And yes, it’s pretty typical for anyone’s speech to get lower and more monotone - esp. when listing things or at the end of sentences. So it’s just a skill to listen for that and prevent it from going too low. I worked on that with a speech language pathologist - she would have me list things and work on noticing the pitch going down and bringing it back up, and establishing a better baseline.

        • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          3 个月前

          Re: ear training, it might be worth trying to get your hands on some aural training books intended for musicians - I’d say my ear for pitch is very heavily improved by having done that sort of stuff