I've been writing down notes on voice feminization, here's what I took away from the video. If anyone has any notes on what I got right or wrong please let me know! Exercises aren't actual 'exercises' they don't strengthen the vocal muscles like lifting a weight would strengthen your arm. What exercises do is decontextualize vocal elements so you can listen to them individually and adjust them to a feminine point to apply to speech. The most important part of doing exercises is actually HEARING what you are doing rather then just doing the motions. Then if the exercise sounds off, do something different until it sounds right, rather then just trying over and over. Don't get distracted by exercises or stuck on them as they are only there to help by isolating elements of the voice, exercises also don't help with the style of speech, so even if you can do them perfectly, you might still not sound how you want until you start using your voice and adjusting it to what you want it to sound like. Don't just go through the motions, be present while doing the exercises.

Wait, Is she trans? If she is I couldn’t even tell

You just fed my soul ❤ thank you

I'm not sure if my knowledge in phonetics/phonotactics has helped or hindered me in understanding this lesson

Glad I had the chance to watch this...err I mean...watts this

Oh so THIS is what I'm feeling, I intuited this by accident! Although I am hoping to masculinize my voice instead, but I do want it to feel open and clear and natural. It makes me feel like a have a lot more space to increase my resonance in Edit to add: It felt like I was "opening" the very back of my tongue, that extends down the throat, but I'm now realising that these are my false folds!

Forgive me, but I can't stand Clover.

i’m demiboy but imma do this just to cause problems at family gatherings XD

Thank you so much for this - such truth. <3

im only watching this to voice act more characters so i dont have to pay as many people i swear

I like my voice though and don't want to change it, but I don't really have a choice if I want to ever pass 😞

I did start for like 5 weeks but felt like I made no progress after like the first few days

This interview helped me decide to chose him when I was kinda uncertain before, so thanks a lot!

Oh shit, my fem voice sounds off!

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This video is really insightful and groundbreaking!!! 🔥 This sharpness quality is such a useful addition to my understanding of voice! ⚔ I found that following along with the exercises was really effective at making the quality more apparent and distinct for me. I will have to continue integrating awareness of this quality into my voice practice! You did such a great job on this video Clover! 😊💜

Not pedagogical. Not how thyroarytenoids work. Sorta helpful with understanding acoustic properties, but still not accurate.

Thanks so much Clover. I had been plateauing for a while now and this was just what I needed. I really appreciate everything you, Z, and Viv have been doing.

I've recently started watching your videos and it's the best instruction I've ever had. I loved the message in this one, it's great advice, I'll try to keep it with me :)

When a singer pronounces words like "good" as "guid" - is that because of extreme sharpness? I think it's described as the "indie girl" or "cursive" style.

A lot of motivational stuff is super abilist and just truisms and bootstrap statements. I'm always glad when real, constructive, original thoughts are presented in ways that don't alienate those who have tried super hard and are struggling with things that arent fixed by being told to "just do it".

Could you let us know the name of that app you're using? You once told it to my friend in a private lesson, but when we went back to check the recording of the session it only had her speaking and not your instructions on how to find the app. Thanks for all your amazing instructional resources!

I’m useing this to help me to voice after a character

I'm so cooked, its been a year since I started and I sound like a chainsaw

23 year old cis man here to learn how to voice better female NPCs in my DND games.

how dare you call me out like this

"U're not sharp enough." I get that a lot. ;+D

_Make video for trans people_ AI developers and VTubers with female avatars: *It’s free real estate.*

8:16 the third, lighter, pitch sounds like Jenny Nicholson

how am i supposed to focus on my voice training when the background of this video is giving me music gear envy

This video is so brilliant. It takes into mind so many things like dialect or pitch sliding which can cause mistakes for begginers. Thank you Clover! <3

It's so amazing and strange to me the huge range of sounds the human mouth can make

please forgive my stupidity, but to make sure I am understanding correctly. To sound more feminine, with every letter, vowel and consonant, we want our tongue closer to the teeth, and then to sound more masculine, the other way around? I understand the T just fine, but I will admit, I got a tad lost when we went to other letters.

Try animal sounds such as cats and pooches and farm animals Zheanna and Clover, ❤ from Petra Brown

IM EARLY YASSS

Yes. So glad you made this.

This is 2 years old. Probably o one is going to see this but that's fine. I am doing the best I can. Its hard because the voice is the hardest part of the transition.

I'M having problems getting my voice where it needs to be. I'M 68 and need help getting where I need to be.

Solid second of shock at the masc voice audio clip

I feel like the more boyish sound sounds very tomboy and endearing very natural and I would never think anything of it if I heard it in public. so to all of you who cant seem to quite master this breathe easy ya sound like a girl

Wow... I feel like i can be a behavioral therapist now.

OMG I LOVE CLOVERS VOICE!!! 😍

Darn, the sharpness demos sound like resonance to me :( I wonder what I'm missing

The cycle: > I want to voice train > I take action and try it > Hearing the sound of my own voice is too painful for me to continue > I stop doing it

this works thank you so much!

It's been a while since I've followed your work. How is sharpness different from brightness?

It sucks that trans women even have to live up to perfect cis female normative expectations (when they are not cis) just to blend in and be safer in society, many female women have deep voices and are still women.

The teachers voice dosent really sound female, it sounds trans. Can't turn a male voice into a female sounding one. Its one of the many lies that exist in the trans world.