Resonance Exercise for Transfeminine Voice

[@sarahcraig2915]

I am a singing teacher in a small town and have students asking for this kind of therapy. thankyou for ideas and guidance.

[@moonstruckstarlet6607]

Thank you for offering that resource for your students!! That's a world of good, especially in a small town.

[@moonlight_fay]

I love that for your student's and your school

[@DriftWorn]

OMG Thank you!!! I was told to pull back the corners of my mouth, akin to sucking on a piece of candy or a straw. It wasn't working, and I was having a terrible time with it, but when you said French, it clicked. It has made a world of difference :) For once, I don't hate my voice!

[@NoemCharlotteThieves]

Thank you for all of your hard work, advise and support, it is much appreciated!

[@yourehomerealestatebobbyst8615]

Fascinating!

[@wad548]

Thank you for making this!!

[@quinndonnelly1888]

Hey I'm in Eugene! This was helpful, thank you

[@favourjeanette3303]

Selling effective voice highlighting tea. High in Vitamin C, vitamin B12 and Thiamine. You should try, take two weeks to hear changes.

[@subjectdelta7210]

Wish I could practice anytime besides 12pm. I’m tired

[@cicihusainah999]

Great beneficial

[@elyanabela1397]

Awesome

[@favourjeanette3303]

Selling effective voice highlighting tea. High in Vitamin C, vitamin B12 and Thiamine. You should try, take two weeks to hear changes.

[@andromedastormcrow3288]

I have been looking for something like this, thank you so much

[@jessicawinslet684]

I'm trans too ahhah I look very feminine but I still sound very male

[@aruwaurachi9649]

As a french person i am even more confused now

[@domhaydel3894]

@Eugene Speech Therapy due to a crooked nose, Is it a possibility my training is not effective when I focus speaking through my nasal cavity

[@hacgiaythiengia7516]

Do you know any method to measure female male resonance? Like measuring pitch.

[@coolfred9083]

Measuring pitch? A smartphone can probably do that using the microphone. You'd have to get an app for it or something.

[@fighterflight]

@@coolfred9083 I think they’re asking if there’s something similar to measure resonance

[@jayseelan1257]

My friend is a female but her voice is male voice Pls help

[@ChloeASMR91]

Im a Trans Woman and To be honest there was very little information from this 4 minute short video and did not help at all

[@triplea25]

Can you do a video about talking to Houseplants ,

[@favourjeanette3303]

Selling effective voice highlighting tea. High in Vitamin C, vitamin B12 and Thiamine. You should try, take two weeks to hear changes.

[@abbycyrus1981]

@@favourjeanette3303 thanks leaving your add on your description, I just mailed you. I need this 🙏💕

[@sunisshining1582]

as a man do I need hormons or is it possible with technique to speak feminin?

[@descendentoftherose2252]

Hormones don't make voice feminine.

[@Swenthorian]

As a linguist, I'd have to say that this is not the best instruction at all. TransVoiceLessons is literal decades of learning ahead of this. For SLPs and other phoneticians: The 1-step exercise to increase "R1" (what TVL terms the resonance of the laryngeal/pharyngeal space), is to articulate bare aspiration, and raise the pitch of that aspiration (do not palatalize!). Once you have gotten this very high, hold it there and start speaking. You'll be able to hold a modal voice with a much-smaller R1 space. To reduce how much of the vocal folds are vibrating (what TVL terms "thinness" or "thickness"), just tilt your neck all the way up / tilt your head all the way back while you're speaking, and maintain the sound it gives you. This is a distillation of an hour of introductory TVL videos. I definitely recommend watching them for yourself. A typical female SLP will always have difficulty demonstrating the full potential of this effect, however, since women do not as a rule get large R1 spaces in puberty.

[@SierraSpeech]

Hi Rylie, that is an impressive page! I love how it is so in-depth. This is going to help a lot of people. I’m sure you can understand that my videos are glimpses into what it is that we do. As you are aware, there are many complexities to changing the voice and each individual is different. Using evidence based practice as a foundation, I tailor each POC to the person and make decisions based on that person and their needs/anatomy. That is why my videos are not in-depth, they are never meant to treat anyone, but act as a guide and let people know that they can get assistance. Thanks for your input.

[@Swenthorian]

@@SierraSpeech I think you replied to the wrong comment! I'm Miles, not Rylie. XD

[@nunu_beee]

@@Swenthorian They literally copy and pasted their reply from another comment and didn't even bother to change the name! It's probably the go-to response when someone mentions TransVoiceLessons.

[@fighterflight]

@@Swenthorian the rest of it was meant for you and I thought it made perfect sense just ignore the name typos happen

[@me.atul10]

❤

[@yeetmeouttheroofredacted5027]

I'm doing this to mess with my friends lol I'm not Trans I swear

[@sneakerstring]

🥚

[@miamonteverdi]

I am so sick of cisgender speech therapists like you who don't know the first thing about voice feminization telling us trans women how to use bullshit classical singing techniques to make subtle changes like the ones demonstrated here. Viewers -- Notice how all of the different voices she uses in this video all sound cis female. That's because she is a cis female, and she isn't doing much of anything to change the size of her resonating cavities. If she wanted to sound less female in any truly noticeable way, she'd have to lower her larynx as well as use a heavier amount of vocal weight. The real trick to voice feminization is in shrinking the space inside and thus raising the main resonant frequency (or R1) of our voice, which is largely done through the raising of the larynx. Some stuff with the mouth space is involved too, yes, but without any larynx manipulation, you're just going to be making tiny subtle changes like the ones heard in this video, and not really changing your vocal gender much at all. Speech language pathologists like this hack will usually not tell you to raise your larynx though, because there is a phobia in the classical singing community of raising the larynx. It can be associated with increased tension and strain (keyword: can), so they largely avoid it, clinging to this delusion that larynx manipulation and tension cannot ever be decoupled. Check out transvoicelessons though. She's a much better voice teacher than I am. Focusing too much on thinking of it as "larynx raising" like I'm saying here can indeed sometimes lead to tension, and she's been modifying her teaching style to be more effective in all sorts of ways since I did the bulk of my initial study into this. Don't trust cis SLPs. 90% of them have no idea what they're doing.

[@drfelixgraham]

......you DO realize that changing laryngeal posturing in a sustainable way is done to a large extent with the mouth (i.e., the articulators)?

[@realcyrusjohn]

I am a man not a trans but I have high pitch sounds like femine.

[@n0ra758]

I’m literally the contrary, I’m a cis woman but my voice is freackin deep

[@realcyrusjohn]

@@n0ra758 Do you feel ashamed in large crowds?

[@n0ra758]

Cyrus John Cyrus John I mean I feel more uncomfortable talking all the time but even more on the phone or with new people and everything. I just feel like every time I talk, people don’t expect a deep voice and I can feel them kinda judging me. I just wish I had a higher pitched voice tbh

[@realcyrusjohn]

@@n0ra758 same with me I am afraid if I am speaking in front because of my high pitch

[@realcyrusjohn]

@@n0ra758 how I wish we can change our voice.I want your deep voice and you can have my high pitch ahhaha

[@CMDRunematti]

this confused me even more...

[@favourjeanette3303]

Selling effective voice highlighting tea. High in Vitamin C, vitamin B12 and Thiamine. You should try, take two weeks to hear changes.