I've seen a lot of discourse and even some arguments lately about who sounds fem and who doesn't. Women come in all shapes and sizes and have voices that range across an entire spectrum.

Quit being so hard on yourself and have fun with the journey!

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So I’ve been working with a vocal coach for a few months now and according to her, I have a pretty passable fem voice now. However, when we do extended conversation or I practice on my own for a while, I find that my average pitch slowly starts creeping back down to my baseline masc range and ruins the fem voice.

It’s too slow of a change to notice in the moment, and I’m not really sure why it happens. I don’t really have much strain or anything at the higher pitches, at least not any more than normal. My vocal coach says it’ll just fix itself with more practice but I’m worried it’ll never get better. I have no clue how to fix it or practice not doing it - you can’t fix something if you can’t even notice you’re doing it.

I’ve been researching surgeries to permanently raise pitch but the risks and recovery are super scary so I’d love to not have to do something that drastic.

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It’s like this, Internal part of the voice. Something that binds the overarching words together? Almost like the backdrop of what i’m saying.

Any help would be huge :( really frustrated. Worried i’ll need surgery.

So basically I've been voice training off and on with varying degrees of success for the past 6 years. I've tried so many things, but my biggest difficulty is and always has been getting my trained voice to become my "natural" voice. Whenever I'm not thinking about it, whenever I haven't done my vocal warm-ups, whenever I have a longer conversation... my voice always goes back down.

Granted, there has been incremental improvement over time. Listening to recordings of my voice from 6 years ago is kind of surreal, actually! Like, I can't believe I used to sound that deep and monotone. Recently, I've actually started getting some compliments on my voice training even when I don't think I sound my best. That being said, my resting voice is still in no way "cis-passing", and there's a huge gulf between what I know I can do and what I normally sound like.

So yeah, I've been feeling pretty depressive about this lately... if you are someone who has been through this and come out the other side with a voice that you liked, please share what worked for you. anything at all. thanks!!!!

Hello everyone. Just starting with my vocal journey and eould really love help from the more knowledgeable people in the community. Anything would be greatly appreciated. Voice is kinda tired during this recording.

idk where to start i need help, any guides or yt videos that yall recommend?

I kind of just accepted it. I am mtf and have trained my voice to be passing. A big goal of my transition was to get a female voice which I have mostly achieved. Of course it isn't perfect. My voice is a very important goal of my transition, as my voice dropping was one of the worst experiences of my life in regards to my dysphoria.

I am mostly happy with my voice right now. I have a lower pitched female voice. I have really improved on my vocal weight and I am straining less.

But I have become hyper aware of instances when my resonance drops back down and my weight becomes too heavy when I am out in public. When I wake up and practice, I often hear gaps in my resonance that I have to fix. I have been practicing every day for a year now. Because my voice is something that I use every single day, I don't feel confident when I don't have a practice session in.

Really sucks that one pubertal change sentenced me to a lifetime of playing vocal cleanup. In february I am having a consultation for a glottoplasty which I am still on the fence about because I have made huge improvements to my voice over the course of a year. Glottoplasties also dont address resonance. It would be nice to make vocal training at least a little easier. But I also like singing. sooo

Maybe one day I'll be able to use my voice without practicing. But I have too much trauma roped into what I used to sound like and want to stay as far away from that as possible.

Hello,

i have been trying to practice control over my vocal weight and i've been liking my progress, but i've started noticing that there is this strange tension building in my hard palate, like it just feels tense, not painful or anything and nothing past it (not soft palate nor anywhere near my voice box/throat) and i'm just not sure what might be the issue, i saw it could be related to either jaw or tongue tension, so i've tried to stretch my tongue and relax my jaw and i'm fairly certain i am not slipping into falsetto either..

My reference point for weight has been the 'cooing at a baby' method from Trans Voice Lesson Youtube, and from there i glide towards softer whisper and towards louder buzzy voice.. i do think i have a conscious control over my soft palate, or something in that area and even when i try to focus on relaxing anything near where the tension is.. it doesn't completely help.

Did anyone encounter this or has any advice?

Thank you.

pls ignore the German accent lol

does it pass? I'm quite insecure about my voice

a friend of mine who is not really hugboxing me (also told me i should get forehead reduction because i asked for actual feedback) told me that my voice passes but still unsure

I am a little sick right now but other than that, this is what my voice normally sounds like. I sound very feminine and get misgendered even when I visually pass. What should I work on?

mostly stems from antisocialness, i think, but this is just how I speak atm.

Also, I'm French, please ignore the bad accent and focus on my baguett-y voice.

Hi im male 25 years old
I tried to watch and train my voice so i could sound more like what i feel like me but i could change my voice at all
I traid TransVoiceLessons and other creator on youtube for over 7 mounths
My voice is the same💔 (i did cheaked with old videos) i need to know what do i do wrong
I really start thinking about wendler glottoplasty sergury but cant affort the travel and sergury atleast not for 2 years but i cant wait tell then im tried from my voice
Any advice?
I feel my biggest proplems are Resonance and inflection i cant fell or see any change in them

Alsoo if you could try pointing mi age range it would help me a little to see where in particular to improve ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

Hello! I’m 35 days post-op from a modified Wendler glottoplasty, and I’m looking feedback on how I sound! My pitch has increased a lot, though I’m not able to gauge how well my voice passes. I trained for about a year prior to surgery but my voice was pretty buzzy and I wasn’t able to get to a place where I could sustain my pitch above about 160hz without losing volume and range. I tend to have flatter intonation when reading than talking as a heads up :).

Ok so my voice gets really grainy after I stop sounding fem, and whenever I do sound fem am always stuck in the andro ranges. I have tried forcing it into the high fem range but it always sounds choppy and weird.

(Ignore the start I was just trying to tune the recording app)

Ignore the weird visuals lmfao. I have been singing with a hyper fem voice and hate how nasally so I tried applying the brightness to a deep voice and think it sounds somewhat fem… thoughts? I tried a couple different tones on the same line :)

(FTM) i wanna know how my voice sounds, is it passing, is it clocky, is it not passing at all? how old do i sound? any feedback would be greatly appreciated

sorry for the background noise lol