How to change your voice

[Nicole]

Since I have been actively crossdressing for a couple of weeks now and trying to adapt to things I am also trying out to find a more feminine voice.
People praise me for my imitations of celebrities. Yet they are always cartoon characters or men.
I don't have a very deep voice, but when I try to do a female voice it is or too squeeky or I sound like an overly gay male.
I checked some video's online but the only thing I find are mostly yourneys of people who CD and changed their voice over time.
Never do I seem to find real trainings, how to's and such.
Do you have any daily tips I could practise so my voice becomes a bit better?
Love, Nicole

[Ralitsa]

There are some threads about this a few years back, you may want to search the old posts.

I think the consensus opinion is that it does take years of practice, there is not a quick fix. But also there was the point that it's not so much the pitch of your voice, but more about the things you say and how you use inflection. If you carefully observe the words and phrases that women use, and their tone you will see how to do it.

I've been trying this the last few years. Even though I'm using the same pitch I always use, I try speaking the way a woman would. It's quite different, rather an interesting experiment. But yes, if you raise the pitch of your voice you end up sounding gay.

[Anthony Simon]

I put "voice" into the search engine and came up with 1150 hits, which is 77 pages (!)

http://crossdressers-forum.com/forums/v ... ce#p157715

http://crossdressers-forum.com/forums/v ... ilit=voice

http://crossdressers-forum.com/forums/v ... ce#p150105

http://crossdressers-forum.com/forums/v ... ilit=voice

[Davita]

My web site has links (and hopefully they are still good) for voice training and techniques. See http://davita-farley.webs.com/reference/body2.html Two things to remember about voice -- there are as many women's voices as men's and voices change with age and time.

My voice is fairly neutral so it passed easily. BUT you can't be monotone; women aren't monotone... I hope my links help with what you're looking for.

[Nicole]

My voice isn't monotome at all luckily. Yet however I don't sound like a woman at all (except when I laught I heard).
I get a bit lost in information and don't seem to find daily practise stuff.
I know this won't change within the week but it is something I want to work towards.

[Anthony Simon]

I think the one thing people seem to agree on is the value of singing. This is because women's voices characteristically contain a melodic element where words are kind of semi-sung or modulated with emotion. It produces a richly detailed result which contrasts to the deliberate flatness of the male voice.

I know when I speak (as a guy), I can hear myself deliberately flattening my voice. This is in line with the self-image of men as "unemotional" and "rational". I know that, in order to sound authorative, I also drop my voice - like it gets lower. Both happen quite instinctively. One thing I observe with women is how, when they particularly want to draw your empathy on some point, they will inflect their voice higher and semi-sing the end of a statement.

When people want to learn how to play an musical instrument, one thing they do is to play along to records - thus emulating the players they admire. I know I've tried something parallel with one of the female impersonators I admire - Christopher Morley (It's in one of the posts I linked). I'm pretty sure that you could do the same sort of thing with recordings of women or women singers. I mean you'd be training your vocal instrument (your voice).

You could do it every day. What it does, while you're singing/talking and emulating, is make you listen intensively to women's voices. So then you're going to work out what make them different from men's - and, in particular, yours when you try and imitate them. It might help you to begin with this. I've done it a bit.

[DonnaT]

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[Anne Bonny]

There are some good tips such as loosen up and talk a little gay. Let your voice come only from your throat up, there should be no vibration in your chest. Try speaking without causing your chest to vibrate it makes an amazing difference! Then enunciate your words completely. and lastly remember the final inflection of your sentences tend to end up not down (hum...seem to remember reading there is something submissive in this). If you do this you can work to find how low you can go without causing your chest to vibrate - it literally feels as if you are talking from your head but not in a falsetto. It works for me at least and those tips I found on You tube it was amazingly simple and it works! And the comments about the sing songy melodic sound of feminine speach is another thing to practice. Listen to women, they tend to nurture....

[Amber Chen]

Yes, I agree that women have a 'sing-songy' way of speaking, but I've also observed that their phrasing also varies from the way men speak. Like women often 'ask a question' rather than make a statement, such as 'Isn't that blouse a nice color?' instead of 'That shirt is a nice color!'
Check out how women talk in terms of the words and phrasing and forms of speaking that they do.