• UnixSlvt42@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    10 days ago

    Why doesn’t she- the bigger one- not simply eat the other one?

    Oh, she does? Perhaps humans are more ruthless than I thought.

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    Mann I really wanna try to voice train but hearing my own voice regularly is already kinda embarrassing, let alone trying to do new things with it

    • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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      Are you any good at impersonations? You could always pick a woman who’s voice you like and copy them. I have a friend who did that. She dramatically changed her accent, which was weird but she also definitely sounds feminine.

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        Sadly I’m terrible at impressions, and I hate trying to do them because I feel like I always embarrass myself even when I’m alone 😅

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          aww that’s the fun of impressions. if you don’t like embarrassing yourself in front of the cats i don’t see how you could enjoy doing them

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            Yeahhh. I do like doing a high voice at our cat but as soon as she leaves or I do it for more than a moment then I start to feel a crushing awkwardness. At least I can practice a little a few moments at a time here and there

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              I’ve gotten used to mst3k-ing the video games I’m playing for the cats when they’re in the room. I’m not funny enough to be a streamer, but I’m funny enough for them.

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    10 days ago

    I can’t wait to be finished with my SLT apprenticeship to be able to give voice training to trans folk :) It’s also on our curriculum for our voice therapy classes - looking forward to it.

    Only thing I don’t know right now is if I’ll be able to give tips to transfem as a cis male. Maybe with sufficient experience or advanced training courses

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      As someone who has looked into voice training a lot, at least the basic ideas I’m sure you can. None of it is necessarily specific to transfems and I would assume all the mechanisms behind feminizing your voice will be covered. The part that people might ask about that’s more specific is probably which parts are most important for being recognized as feminine (and the answer from what I gathered is kinda just “it’s complicated but it’s not just pitch”).

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        what I gathered is kinda just “it’s complicated but it’s not just pitch”).

        i’m a musician, so this is the way i think of it: men sound like woodwinds, women sound like strings. sometimes the pitches overlap, but usually women are an octave higher. if you start as a lyric soprano and can stretch yourself down to alto, or as a bass stretching yourself up to a tenor, you can get the rest of the way to “passing” just by changing your tone and cadence.

        • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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          So do i, especially my singing voice (if Jonny Cash sang an octave lower). But my voice has always bothered me, as in it’s the changeable thing that gives me most dysphoria (well that and the hair). I’ve always felt a shudder down my spine whenever I head a recording of my voice. So I can’t imagine not training my voice.