Oh, this Knowledge is enlightening

So fascinating 😮 you have so much control over your voice! I’ve only just started playing with my voice and am trying to get a more feminine voice to align with my gender identity. It feels like an impossible task but I’m holding on to hope and seeing how much control you have gives me some hope that I can learn to get the voice I desire.

For real though. This is actual great advice and I think should be way more recognized. I'm so glad I found your channel and am subscribing <3. Learning to love yourself whole is something I'm still learning to do myself 🩷

i wish this video had more views. this is such an important point in all aspects of being trans, yet such a difficult one to convey. the language used to express the point is very, very difficult to arrange in a way that doesn't sound discouraging, or even transphobic to some people. i've cowered away from saying it to people who needed to hear it, because i was too scared they would interpret 'you will always be trans' as 'you will never be what you want to be'. i regret that cowardice, because even if it were to make someone upset with me personally, it probably would have helped anyway. it's impossible for someone to be happy transitioning if they're trying to turn into a cis version of the other gender, because despite everything we _can_ change, the past is set in stone. we can be reborn, but we can't literally go back into the womb to emerge as something else. and there's nothing wrong with that, because what you came out as isn't what defines you in the first place.

crap. I don't get it. sort of...?

Whelp, I’m seeing this like 5 weeks late 🙃. Oh well, I think I’m too stupid to understand anything since I have gotten nothing from any video so far

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

this is where this lady was born =>me<=

I love the production on this one! Between the main lecture segment and the demonstrative spectrogram segment and it going back and forth! Really loving the direction y'all are taking!

That high strain voice sounds _suspiciously similar_ to YukkoEX...

When I try bringing my pitch up while doing this I simply never flip into my head voice lol. I just get to where I'm screaming/straining and have to stop myself

brilliant as always

I played breath of the wild and I was busy looking at the view... maybe it says something how i'm stuck in my voice training.

I have yet to understand ANYTHING useful from ANY video I’ve watched 🙃 Ugh. Going to try a few from this channel

voice training is hard because hearing my voice makes me dysphoric and my trained voice makes me cringe.

6:23 can you elaborate on big dog small dog? i have never heard of it

The more I learn about the scientific side of voice training the more fascinated I am by what I did completely accidentally. Going through puberty I was kicking myself so much because my voice didn't do the thing other boys voices did where it would just drop one day. Due to the fact that I speak in a more feminine way, having been raised by a single mother and never really connecting with a male identity at a young age (oh boy do I wonder why that might be), I sounded entirely like a girl until I was maybe 15 or 16 and only then there was the start of a VERY gradual shift, which again, frustrated me to no end at the time. What I realize now is that I was basically subconsciously continuing to talk in a higher pitch *despite* the biological changes except eventually those changes did catch up to me but only my natural register changed so to this day I can just get in the zone and do my other voice because it's still completely there. I basically did voice training for like 10 years without realizing how insanely useful that would be way down the line now that I identify as gf/nb. The ability to just pull out an at-worst androgynous and at-best decently feminine voice on the severely dysphoric days is such a crazy ace to have up my sleeve, even if I will visually never pass as fem because of my height (and don't necessarily aim to do that), this still eases the pain on bad days A LOT. Probably helps that I've been voice acting on and off for most of that time as well just collecting character voices all over the place that I can try to tune into to the extent that my autistic ass regularly forgets which one my actual natural voice is which confuses the living shit out of people. I had a day recently where I attended university classes and before I even got there while getting food I noticed my "boy-voice" was just GONE. Couldn't do it, wasn't there, forgot how to access it. So the expressions on my professors whenever I asked any questions that day where a sight to behold... Hasn't happened since and it really only spooked me while it was going on but oh boy was it a sign for me to look into more of the professional side of voice training to have better vocal control and not have that happen ever again.

wow what a way to dispell my fear and doubt, I need to relisten to that a few times

I'm a cis male, but when I was younger I would essentially code switch (even though I had no idea what that was until now) in order to make my voice sound more welcoming, and when it was over the headset, I don't know how many times my voice was mistaken for being a female voice, it happened quite a few times.

You don't have to talk like a woman. That seems super stressful. You were created XY with testosterone and that's perfectly okay.

You are right, it’s our own efforts that count, I have Cerebral Palsy, yet after some practice and plenty of giggles from doing SOVTES, I get some very interesting results, it’s motivation and perseverance. ❤ Petra

Also iirc she said she was also a trained singer in the comments, so maybe she has a leg up on the rest of us 😅

thank you!

that's a good sequence of training, thank you.

Congratulations on the launch!! Here's looking forward to a successful future!

Why you give me feelings q.q Very nicely said, that's something I struggle with a lot lately. Working on an ok sounding falsetto voice becouse I just can't stand my voice below a pitch of 300hz...

lol that sound at the end

I think it's because a lot of people associate smiling with a smaller mouth shape, like with their tongue higher in their mouth. It's one of many possible paths to help somebody find the right mouth positions

Duke Nukem to girlvoice™️ 🤣

Finally I can defeat the creakiness from my voice TYSM

This was really helpful! The tongue-twisters, for anyone intersted: "Tabitha tasted tangy tangerines by the tall tree." "Dancing ducks dined during dawn." "Sophie savoured sweet strawberry sundaes slowly." "Zachary's zany zebra zigzagged zealously through zion."

Looks like you're doing it well 😇🌹❤️❌⭕❌⭕

Love the Glasses really elevates your Sensuous Eyes! Great Point! ❤❤

wtf, this is actually understandable unlike the other ones !!!

So, I tried a bit of vocal training pretty soon after realising I was trans... and I wasn't happy with it. It sounded kinda ok, but missing something, and didn't sound natural. So I 'put it on the shelf'. Over the following, say, 18 months, I was able to shed a lot of the 'protective repression' I'd built when younger, which let my natural self come to the fore. Part of this was my voice shifting to have more of that 'gay accent' - I wasn't forcing it, I just wasn't forcing myself to *not* do it. When I picked the vocal training back up, it instantly sounded more natural - it had been missing those feminine affectations.

I think it's really cool and helpful that you're comfortable demonstrating both masc and femme vocal examples. Hearing the different notes, timbre, and articulation played on the same instrument is so important, and I know a lot of trans women are understandably uncomfortable returning to masc voices, even if they (like you) couldn't pass as a cis man anymore to save their life!

My goal is the Star Trek computer.

this gotta be a joke, right ? Facking hell, can you stop your american-colonialism by putting all your nevrosis on the japanese people and their creations ? They didn't ask for this. And they already explictly said multiple times that they hate everything related to lgbt-culture.

I recognize this is completely besides the point, but where did you get those pants and those shoes?

Thank you for uploading this video, I really needed to hear something like this tonight <3

Love this video, another banger Altamira! This dichotomy is so important.

I grew up watching Regular Show. One thing they always say is YEYAH, so I kinda do that and practice from there. It’s a start.

I picture sounding like a news caster. lol I'm transmasc.

you've got other problems than voice training!! <- i love it!

omg it’s me lol

Oh helllll nahhhhhhhh thats gotta be a crime 😅

There’s no such thing as “trans” it’s made up term for people with subjective feelings and hold no objective facts. No one attend this bullshit “lesson”

Super validating to hear that this is not just a me thing! Also kind of liberating to think about it in terms of code-switching as opposed to just getting lazy/sloppy with my practice in more comfortable settings. Thank you so much for this!