voice transition progress?
Jul. 11th, 2017 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spoonlessIt's weird. I felt like I was making very little progress on voice transition, when I made the last post, including a few voice samples. That was July 3rd. I guess it's only about a week later (July 11th), but for some reason I feel much more optimistic now. Like I've actually been making real progress. Not sure if that feeling is solely because of progress I've made within the past week, or if I had already made progress that I didn't feel ready to acknowledge yet.
I've also discovered and started using a new tool since the previous post. There are many apps that do spectrum analysis on the sound coming in (such as PitchLab or Advanced Spectrum). But this one is designed specifically to help people train their voices over time to sound more female or more male. It's called Voice Pitch Analyzer And it's fantastic! When I use it, I sometimes get male, sometimes female, and sometimes androgynous. I can usually tell which I'm going to get ahead of time... but to get female I usually have to strain myself too much which means that even though I'm in the right pitch range, it's not going to sound super natural. I think I can make the androgynous range sound pretty natural at this point though. Maybe using this app has helped me gain confidence. Or it could be some new types of exercises I started recently, based on some notes I copied from a friend's voice training lessons.
Anyway, here are some more samples. One of the exercises I do a lot is counting numbers... here is a sample of me counting in (my best attempt at) a female voice:
female numbers
And just for comparison (so you can see how far I've come), here is how I sound counting numbers in a male voice:
male numbers
A new thing I started doing today is finding and reading monologues suggested for actresses to read at auditions. This one is based on Dr. Who! Lots of fun...
Dr. Who monologue
(the text of the Dr. Who script I'm reading is here)
I've also discovered and started using a new tool since the previous post. There are many apps that do spectrum analysis on the sound coming in (such as PitchLab or Advanced Spectrum). But this one is designed specifically to help people train their voices over time to sound more female or more male. It's called Voice Pitch Analyzer And it's fantastic! When I use it, I sometimes get male, sometimes female, and sometimes androgynous. I can usually tell which I'm going to get ahead of time... but to get female I usually have to strain myself too much which means that even though I'm in the right pitch range, it's not going to sound super natural. I think I can make the androgynous range sound pretty natural at this point though. Maybe using this app has helped me gain confidence. Or it could be some new types of exercises I started recently, based on some notes I copied from a friend's voice training lessons.
Anyway, here are some more samples. One of the exercises I do a lot is counting numbers... here is a sample of me counting in (my best attempt at) a female voice:
female numbers
And just for comparison (so you can see how far I've come), here is how I sound counting numbers in a male voice:
male numbers
A new thing I started doing today is finding and reading monologues suggested for actresses to read at auditions. This one is based on Dr. Who! Lots of fun...
Dr. Who monologue
(the text of the Dr. Who script I'm reading is here)
