I want to get as many resources possible for myself and other gender-queer folks who frequent here.
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCBYlEnfAUbrYSwF0VujcmHA
@TransVoiceLessons
i found these videos really helpful, but ultimately, you already sound like you, love yourself or whatever (i am required to say this to myself), on the other hand plenty of cis people alter their voices and no one bats an eye
p.s. drink plenty of water, and cough instead of clearing your throat with a little hep hemm cause it strains your muscles, google some vocal warm ups to do in the morning
p.p.s. oh and if you raise your voice in my head, thinking in a higher pitch etc, your larynx will actually make tiny movements to match, thats fun. Keep in mind pitch isnt anywhere close to the most important thing
I’ve been aware of her for a while, she’s pretty great. The coughing thing is helpful, I’m gonna give that a go
This is the one I have been using. I am only on video 4 but liking it a lot.
https://voxnovastudio.com/ Studio run by Selene, she gives public and private lessons on her discord server(Link on this site) and there are many free resources available on the server as well. When I was actively voice training, I did lessons with selene, and would just hop on the voice servers and talk with a lot of fun trans folks around the world. Really helps with those early jitters of using your voice in my experience too!
I recently searched “transfem voice training” or something similar and these are my findings:
Some nice exercises, well structured, with nice explanations on why I am supposed to do something. Which I appreciate.
https://www.undeadvoice.com/guide
Didn’t go through everything yet, but I like the way the information is also written out, and the videos are short and informative. I found it easy to follow. There is a lot of good fundamental information of what voice training actually consits of, what you are actually doing. Also there is a downloadable guide. With the audio included.
https://www.voicebykylie.com/blog Also a good guide, but it suffers a bit from being hard to immideatly find what you need.
I think Voicebykyle and Undeadvoice have the most comprehensive and well organised lesson plans.
I prefer text, cause it makes the information easier to parse for me, rather than watching someone talk into a camera, but it is of course very useful to have audiofiles as well.
Edit: I removed guides that were not actually good, I am thankful for any further information, since I don’t really know how to evaluate stuff.
I was the one who shared AlyssaVT’s guide. I kind of regret doing that, as I hadn’t tried it out for myself back then. After doing those voiceless excercies for a few weeks I ended up with a sharp pain in my throat, and then I became more sceptical and looked into what others had to say about it.
From what I’ve read on the transvoice subreddit and discord, it seems like guide’s focus on anatomy (training the throat muscles, raising the larynx) is outdated, inefficient and potentially harmful. The focus should instead be primarily on changing two specific sound qualities, size and weight, and getting the two in balance to achieve what’s called fullness. That is done by first training your ears to hear the individual size and weight aspects by listening to demonstrations of other people changing those aspects. Then you move on to trying to change the size and weight of your own voice by actively listening as you’re doing voiced exercises. It’s very important to keep the throat relaxed while doing this, you’re not supposed to push beyond what’s comfortable.
I’ve found it really helpful to listen to voice clips by Selene and this video by TransVoiceLessons. The charts shown in the video were also nice, they helped me better understand how weight and size work together.
Btw, I’ve also read that L’s guide contains a lot of outdated and bad information, such as the swallow and hold excercise. Doing that excercise is at best a waste of time, and at worst can cause serious damage to the throat.
Thanks! I removed the guides that you pointed out. I am honestly just singing to myself and having fun with it currently, some of the exercises I used to get better voice control, and luckily the swalloing exercise was always too boring for me.
Learning how to throw my voice for public speaking helped me the most for now I think. I can already speak without my chest vibrating, if I want to.
acousticgender.space (it gets affected by accents and can only reliably parse English but it’s a great tool for comparing different voices you do)
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s204/sh/a412f232-e612-439c-b01e-9054631c31e3/971c206b31f0c3dad156c16de159609b - Detailed document for beginners. Explains the anatomy of voice training too which really helped me(voice trained to hide I’m on T).
