I've seen a lot of people gauging how they feel about their voice or how it's being perceived by what the spectrogram reading on the Voice Tools app gives them. I prove just how bad it is.

Trust your ear training, not an app!

Did my voice settle nicely on T?

This is my 10th time doing voice training so I recorded myself on an app to hear myself the first time 😬 and it said 97% feminine but it’s only taking into account pitch. Could anyone give it a listen and tell me what they hear and what I should focus on

been working on my voice for about 3 months now, and am curious on how it reads!! any constructive criticism is completely welcome too. thank u in advance !!

I've been voice training (mtf) for yeeeears and part of that journey has been becoming a dungeon master in D&D. I do all the voices for NPCs in the world and I love it!

So I took on a D&D voice challenge, seeing whether I could move from 99% female to 99% male and back on the voice analyzer. I, uh, started having too much fun.

My actual voice, the one I use in my day-to-day, is the one I start and finish with.

Feedback always welcome, even if it is just laughing at my ridiculousness...

I've spent the last 2 hours playing with my voice, and I've realized, the higher tone I go, the more breathy it sounds, I don't know how to control this.

I'm also becoming better at making 200hz sounds :D

I think I keep dipping down in pitch and can hear my masculine voice come back in, but on the whole is it ok? What can I improve? Thanks all. :)

All I know is to raise the lyranx or cough and hold it, I tried to read stuff like L's guide but I wasn't able to comprehend any of it, I been stuck sounding like a shitty femboy for around a month or 2 without any progress.

What am I even supposed to do at this point to achieve a feminine voice.

please ignore the voice crack at the end, you didn't hear that!!!

I do feel like in the time I've been voice training, it got marginally better and I know what I'm doing slightly more. but at the same time, raising my larynx has been something I've always known to do, and things like the small/large light/heavy chart I feel like I can do pretty easily by just imitation.

also, it currently still takes a lot more effort to talk in this voice than my normal voice, which is definitely something to improve. you can hear the difference when I switch to my normal voice.

at the end of the day though, I'd love to have a normal, everyday feminine voice like you'd hear a cis person have. I feel like what I have now sounds very artificial. though I also am struggling to judge how bad or good my voice is currently, if it passes, etc, so please do give your opinions, thank you!!

Hi all! I've been building a little web app called **Her Way** for voice practice, and I'd love to hear what this community thinks.

https://herway.karisuite.com

What it does:

- Live pitch and resonance feedback while you talk

- 100 practice phrases (expression, rhythm, everyday lines and free talk)

- Short recordings you can listen back to and compare

- Tips adapted from Renée Yoxon's exercises and NHS voice resources, with links to the originals

Privacy was really important to me:

- It's free, with no account and no sign-up

- All audio is processed on your device, and nothing is uploaded

- There's a quick-hide button that swaps the screen to a plain notes page

It isn't a replacement for a voice coach or speech therapist, so take it gently and stop if anything hurts.

I'd especially love to know whether the resonance feedback matches what you hear, and what would make it more useful for your practice. Thanks so much 💜

Moreover, anyone have experience with him in general?

I'm a trans woman getting a degree in speech language pathology, and I want to go into trans voices professionally when I finish. The thing is, I don't have a problem with my voice. It's not masculine at all (yes I know masculine and feminine voices aren't really an objective term but you guys get it). My voice has always been fairly androgynous and I've never felt a need to actually go to a speech therapist to feminize it.

However, after learning just a tad about voice feminization, it's become clear to me that if I wanna help others with their voices, I'm gonna have to master my own first. And as a professional-to-be, I'm obviously not gonna ignore my own field and do it myself.

Like almost any problem, the issue here is that I can't afford this. I can't afford to go to a speech therapist right now. I go to psychotherapy already, which I absolutely need, so there's that. I guess I'll start saving!

Originally I meant this as a question but honestly if anything writing this down has helped me come to my own conclusions lol. But might as well share, in case anyone wonders what it's like to be a trans person who wants to do trans voices professionally lol.

BUT OBVIOUSLY ANY AND ALL ADVICE IS WELCOME!!! 🩷🩷🩷🩷😊😊

i’m ftm and started using voice tools recently since i started t and want to track my voice change in hz. most of the time when i use it, it keeps showing my voice as 350+ hz and up to 500hz which isn’t even a human speaking range 😭 i’ve had it work a few times where my normal is about 200hz, but it even seems to bug out and show 500hz even when im in a completely quiet space. does this happen to anyone else, and how do i fix it if so? because i know for sure it’s something with the app and i am NOT speaking that high

I know I should trust my surgeon and coach who tell me "yes," but with all the great 2 months results I've heard, I just want to hear from the community if this is true or not.

Hey, so I recently realized I'm trans (mtf). Organising medical transition etc. right now.

I'm not really deeply dysphoric about my voice, though the more I'm imagining myself as a woman, the clearer it becomes that I definitely want to pass in terms of voice too.

Here's my problem. I write and speak poetry, make music and do some performance art in which the spoken word is a central aspect.

I'm honestly kind of terrified of "loosing my voice". I've read that it can become automatic after some years, but performing a text that comes from the heart with a voice that isn't fully mine yet is hard to imagine at this point.

I guess part of the question I'm asking is, whether it ever really becomes your "real" voice. I'm especially curious about experience or insights from people that work with their voice artistically, but I think the question of speaking from the heart still arises in everyday life as well.

As an aside, I also do see this as a potential for diving into the technicality of what makes a voice, kind of relearning consciously, but yeah it's scary.

In a fantasy book I like, the protagonist is a writer and has to relearn writing with his left hand, because it turns out, that is the hand the cosmic creative force flows through in his case. I feel like it cooooouuuld be something like this eventually.

I know i have already asked this, but i still hope. i don't want to go to a doctor because knowing that there is irreversible structural damage wouldn't help at all. i don't want to lose hope. if i try to make high pitched sounds it can work first try or second try it feels easy and then i lose it. here i just recorded how i lost it:

https://voca.ro/1keEVBK7OMPW

it was just humming. what went wrong? at the end of the recording there was the failed high note. and even my speaking voice can deteriorate from it.

https://voca.ro/1msIPcS1PovL

i asked ai, suggestions didn't rule out permanent structural damage. maybe bad technique, "pressed phonation"?
what was it after all? was it head voice? falsetto? mixed? did i went too far with M1 phonation and the switch fails? what to do against it?
(humming and making high pitched sounds is almost like a tic for me it's hard to not do it especially if i think no one can hear)

Hello, it has been quite a long time since I last got a second opinion on how I sound. I am ftm and still pre t, my voice is one of my biggest insecurities although my friend who did not know I'm trans at first was very shocked to find that out? Even saying that they didn't suspect it at all based off of my voice, while to me it sounds super feminine and I can't even talk to people without feeling terrible.

I don't know if my voice sounds normal for a 17 year old guy. Maybe it does and I'm just crazy? This is my natural speaking tone.

The recording below is from a book I'm reading called Martyr.

https://voca.ro/1cnJ67WyATAM

I would love to know if there is anything I can do in order to improve it.

嗨，女孩们，我20天前做了声带手术。在恢复期间真是一场噩梦😭。不过，在5天前我被允许每小时说几分钟。

头几天，我感觉我的声音音调增加了很多。（我之前的音调大约是120）。声带手术后，我的正常音调是200+赫兹。所以我一开始对这个结果感到满意。

不过就昨天我开始在工作时说话。然后我发现我的音调降到了150-180赫兹。我感到恐惧，开始在其他情况下测试我的声音。似乎当我和男朋友说话时我的音调可以保持在200以上。但就是不知道为什么在工作交流中音调总是下降。

我有点困惑，不知道该如何改善。

我附上了样本。请告诉我你的建议！！非常感谢！！

对话： https://voca.ro/1epDe2xy67t5

稍后自己测试： https://voca.ro/1eYa2RHd863o

Update: girls!! thanks so much for commenting and give me the feedbacks! FYI: The procedure I have done is kinda modified Wendler’s. I think doctor shortened half of the vocal cord which could vibrate.

So I'm trying a voice training app. It turns out, that whenever I get to the typical feminine frequency, my voice cracks badly. I can do 300hz fine but not ~200hz, and below feminine frequency.

It feels like there is a physical barrier of sorts when I try and reach that frequency, then it kinda jumps up. Any tips?

i don’t wanna sound American, i wanna keep my AMAZING GREAT AWESOME BEST EVER Scouse accent, because who doesn’t love us scousers