A local program to help the M2F get a more feminine voice and speech pattern.
Monday 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm Starting Sept 21 through Nov 9.
with 1 1/2 hour individual training session Oct 19th and a following 1 hour reassessment on Nov 16 or 19.
If you can make it to downtown Vancouver for this type of meeting, you can self refer to the program. [ it is free, but there is a waiting list ]
They do list a few apps to help with monitoring the pitch changes needed.
1) Voice Analyst: $18 - 30 CDN [ 18 for android device 30 for Apple apparently ] real time display of your voice pitch which help you keep the higher pitch we usually need.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.speechtools...
Their recommended app.
2) Free Seventh String Tuner
Meant for tuning string instruments, gives a prolonged tone in semitones.
http://www.seventhstring.com/tuner/tuner.html
3) Gstrings
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id-org.cohorter.g...
tip: set to autotune
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So given courses like these
In addition to self taught and other voice therapists, that is the population of post-puberty T-girls out their would be considered to have an average female voice? For you statisticians, say within 1 sigma?
Point is it would be interesting to gauge the effectiveness of various programs and also the determination of the trainee given the same techniques and starting point of their voice.
results vary
both because of effort put in and because of the depth of the original voice.
cismale vocals are on average around 100 hertz to 140 hz. mine: reading out loud 93 hz, describing a picture 102 hz, conversation 110 hz.
cisfemale vocals range from 180 hz to 220 hz.
gender neutral vocal range is 140 hz to 180 hz
The target range for me to acquire is in the gender neutral range, at 160 hz.
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I agree totally. 160 is certainly an achievable target, it would be a half-octave lift. I had a pretty deep voice, pre-training (about your range I think), so consequently it took me many years of constant use before it got retrained to the point it becomes instinctual. I am pretty sure my original pitch is similar to you, given I was a baritone in middle school and a deeper one at that. My speaking voice is roughly about 200Hz average, speaking-wise.
It took longer for me to achieve this (years literally) because it does create a lot of strain to raise it higher, the higher the more effort imho as I don't have a ton of natural range. A perfect example is Melanie, of Melanie Speaks fame. She was a natural tenor so that helped a lot.
Anyway, the first two years full-time were the worst as I had no speaking stamina at all. It sounded not bad but it was wearing at the end of the day.
I have a complication though
Chronic Obstructed Pulmonary Disease [ COPD ]
severe emphysema, which is air trapped in my lungs. This actually took my bottom limit from closer to 60 hz to the current 80 hz, and it limits my upper range capability.
during my assessment the technition had me aim for a 160 hz tone, the medications for my copd affect my voice and when I hit the 160 hz tone it suddenly had the display of my tone jumping all over the place. I could get 158 hz with a stable monitoring signal, but not he 160.
lol
hard to know you have the right tone when the display of your voice tone is jumping from 60 to 220 hz every millisecond.
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