Ugh I hate voice training so much but after yesterday’s breakdown while trying and getting two “voice analysis” results showing “0% female, 92% male” I decided to watch some videos I’ve seen recommended, and honestly YuukoEX was the one that helped me the most because I feel like I can try to emulate her voice better than others I’ve heard.

After spending yesterday on exercises and trying to figure out various muscles around my throat, I managed this:

It’s not much, but it’s an improvement!

Also, I’m trying eye liner today! It’s a little smudged in one or two spots, but it makes a HUGE difference in my own perception! I even took a face selfie! On purpose!! (for myself I am not nearly confident enough to post lol)

So if you need the reminder, I guess here it is!

  • Waldelfe@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I’m a CIS-woman. I just stumbled upon this post and tried the app for fun. I got 71% female and 29% male. I can also get the app to show 92% male be simply talking in a deep voice that I guarantee sounds nothing like a man but like a woman lowering her voice. Not saying that the app is useless, just take the results with a grain of salt.

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      2 months ago

      Similarly, as a new trans-femme I can get this app to show >90% female, and 5% male, just by pitching higher, but my voice clearly just sounds like a softer/lighter masc voice. My base voice isn’t that deep, but it is very raspy and clumsy, so I’ve been struggling too.

      @Courtney You got this, just follow the usual guides on resonance and fullness, I only just started recently, but I can tell the resonance stuff helps, and I’m moving in the right direction. Here are the two guides I’ve been following, if it helps.

      https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j_-8dndFzKTX0xBSF15ZEJWdw958ryh0IPKq1sz8p04/edit?tab=t.0

      https://old.reddit.com/r/transvoice/comments/d3clhe/ls_voice_training_guide_level_1_for_mtf/

      One thing that really gave me hope is this clip from the first guide: https://clyp.it/xavctl0s

      And here’s the frequency difference of the above clip, showing before and after, NOT my voice FYI:

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      2 months ago

      Thank you for experimenting and posting this! It’s really helpful to have confirmation of what we’ve been telling folk starting training.

      Voice Tools is nice to get pitch where you want it and to monitor how consistent you are with it, but pitch alone is truly insufficient for voice feminization and people tend to get too focused on it because of apps like this.