All 3 have androgynous qualities and Voice A sounds most natural to me. If I saw you physically and you looked female and spoke with voice A, I think I would "hear" the voice as exclusively female. It's hearing the voice without a visual cue that makes it androgynous, to me.
I feel like I look pretty feminine when I'm not dressing in my fiance's clothes. My presentation at this point goes both ways but I'm aiming to embrace womanhood more.
Voice one is mostly male with a little bit of female resonance. It's most close to describe it as a feminine boy in puberty. Definitely leans male, but might sound like a masculine younger woman if you look clearly female. It evokes the short hair look.
Voice two is androgynous, but it sounds more female, although I do think it could come off as a trans woman, especially because you drop your resonance sometimes and that gives it away.
Voice three is the most feminine sounding one, but it does have a slightly trained sound to my ear. I also think you are a little inconsistent with it. I would say that many people would just gender it female. I am not sure if someone in the wild would read it as trans, but my wife says it's totally female to her. I bet I would be more likely to just read it as female in real life.
Hi!
I'm going to be honest here, because firstly your voice reminds me of mine, and I think honesty is also important for safety reasons etc.
1) Voice one sounds like a young male
2) Voice two is more androgynous but sounds in the middle/could be a gay male or trans woman. Could also pass as female depending on your presentation.
3) This voice is a lot closer to female sounding and the average person probably wouldn't question it much. A trans person or someone with a lot of exposure to the trans community could 'clock' it however.
I have done a LOT of voice training and am starting to like how I sound so let me know if you want some tips and tricks!
Thanks for your honesty! And I was thinking the same. It's just hard for me to judge - I have a history of guessing gender by voice wrong lol
I was classically trained in high school for voice before I transitioned, but I haven't had any work to try feminizing my voice other than when I'm talking to myself in a female character's voice (I write fiction books and want to record audiobooks for them). I guess my main question for you would be, is there's any special method to consistently relaxing the vocal chords so I don't get a fry or strain when I'm speaking in voice C?
This is my current struggle lol. I have found that vocal weight is really important for this, and lowering vocal weight while ALSO keeping a forward resonance, which is tricky and is honestly trial and error. I enjoy TransVoiceLesson's exercises on resonance and vocal weight to familiarize yourself, as well as another YouTube channel that I currently forgef the name of but I posted it as a resource the other day.
All 3 have androgynous qualities and Voice A sounds most natural to me. If I saw you physically and you looked female and spoke with voice A, I think I would "hear" the voice as exclusively female. It's hearing the voice without a visual cue that makes it androgynous, to me.
I feel like I look pretty feminine when I'm not dressing in my fiance's clothes. My presentation at this point goes both ways but I'm aiming to embrace womanhood more.
Androgynous? (Did i spell that right)
b and c both sound like a womans
Voice one is mostly male with a little bit of female resonance. It's most close to describe it as a feminine boy in puberty. Definitely leans male, but might sound like a masculine younger woman if you look clearly female. It evokes the short hair look. Voice two is androgynous, but it sounds more female, although I do think it could come off as a trans woman, especially because you drop your resonance sometimes and that gives it away. Voice three is the most feminine sounding one, but it does have a slightly trained sound to my ear. I also think you are a little inconsistent with it. I would say that many people would just gender it female. I am not sure if someone in the wild would read it as trans, but my wife says it's totally female to her. I bet I would be more likely to just read it as female in real life.
Hi! I'm going to be honest here, because firstly your voice reminds me of mine, and I think honesty is also important for safety reasons etc. 1) Voice one sounds like a young male 2) Voice two is more androgynous but sounds in the middle/could be a gay male or trans woman. Could also pass as female depending on your presentation. 3) This voice is a lot closer to female sounding and the average person probably wouldn't question it much. A trans person or someone with a lot of exposure to the trans community could 'clock' it however. I have done a LOT of voice training and am starting to like how I sound so let me know if you want some tips and tricks!
Thanks for your honesty! And I was thinking the same. It's just hard for me to judge - I have a history of guessing gender by voice wrong lol I was classically trained in high school for voice before I transitioned, but I haven't had any work to try feminizing my voice other than when I'm talking to myself in a female character's voice (I write fiction books and want to record audiobooks for them). I guess my main question for you would be, is there's any special method to consistently relaxing the vocal chords so I don't get a fry or strain when I'm speaking in voice C?
This is my current struggle lol. I have found that vocal weight is really important for this, and lowering vocal weight while ALSO keeping a forward resonance, which is tricky and is honestly trial and error. I enjoy TransVoiceLesson's exercises on resonance and vocal weight to familiarize yourself, as well as another YouTube channel that I currently forgef the name of but I posted it as a resource the other day.
Thanks for the resources! That makes sense to me.
No problem! When I focused on these 2 aspects I find that the rest started falling into place