Hey, everyone! I'm transgender professional voice actress Alexis Vandom, and I want to welcome you to Part 1 of my new How to Sound Like a Girl series. Today, I'm giving you a quick lesson on breath support, a crucial but often overlooked step in the vocal feminization process. If you're interested, sign up for classes at the link below!

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Eric Arceneaux's Breath Support Tutorial: Sing Better in Chest Voice

This may seem dumb, but when i look at voice training videos on YouTube I get overwhelmed by the amount of techniques. Is there like a daily set of stuff to practice or a guide I can follow? For me it’s a lot easier to do stuff in a routine if I don’t have to think about it as much.

FTM just turned 18 years old last week, does my voice pass for my age, and is it in any way clockable? I have never voice trained before but if needed I will! I just want to sound like a male that's my around my age (17-20). I know my mic is ahhh but I am in the market of buying a new one. (me yapping about overwatch, not the best clip but oh well)

My voice isnt too bad imo, i use it in everyday life, but i do feel like its a bit clocky sometimes, i think i use too much vocal fry, especially when i first start talking. Thoughts?

Been self-voice training since June this year. I trained my self until mid-September and stops. Could be the be the brain-worms getting to me but my friends said that I sound pretty feminine and get gendered correctly 99% over the phone. My daily language is Vietnamese but here’s an English version. Let me know how it sounds. I don’t think I sound “real”.

Any feedback is appreciated !! Be honest. Love you all 💖

i thought i wasnt making any progress until i saw this video :))

english not my first language so i dotn have the best pronunciation

I figured regular, off the cuff talking would be a better measure than something more structured.

I believe vocal weight is still my biggest issue but getting light requires some disconnection that I don't want. I also just want to sound young. Idk why but it's more affirming for me considering my short stature or something.

I’ve been training for around 10 months now and I’ve felt really stuck on resonance and weight for the past few months. It’s like no matter what I try I can’t reach a small voice size, and my jaw kinda locks up when I try to push my tongue forward due to a tmj disorder. Is it just impossible?

I'm 18 and mtf, since realizing I'm trans last year my dream of being a singer has become more complicated and unrealistic. It's been my dream since about age 13 and I'm not sure if I'm able to let it go. Honestly I don't want to do anything else with my life, I feel like music is my purpose for living, but it's been rough. My voice has been fully affected by male puberty already. I've had my speaking voice pass over the phone, but when it comes to singing I don't even sound androgynous, I sound male still.. it's crushing. I do enjoy the process of creating music but I might not ever have a singing voice that I can be happy with. Any experiences and or advice you would like to share are appreciated.

I want to make my voice deeper and more mature.

And sorry for my accent.

Any thoughts on my voice are welcome.

hi! i want to know which voices sound more masculine, for the first one i’m trying to make my vocal size a little larger and the second one is my relaxed voice. idk if there is a big difference but i just wanna know which one is more masculine. feedback is always appreciated!

first voice 0s-36s
second voice 36s-end

I have no training or real practice in singing, so keep that in mind when evaluating what I’m asking. I’ve been thinking a bit about vocal range. In terms of pitch I can easily speak within the full range for a typical female speaking voice (as can just about everyone who has gone through a male puberty, to be honest), it’s just a matter of dialing in the timbre. But I want to be able to sing as a cis woman would, not as an actual singer in any trained or professional sense per se, but enough that I could do bar karaoke and nobody would clock me.

My full range as I just measured it is B2 or so before I bottom out to roughly Eb5 when I push it, with a comfortable range between roughly C2 and Bb4. I guess that makes me a tenor, but I had one person with some singing training tell me I was a baritone based just off my speaking voice. I’m not really sure what the most appropriate way to classify it is.

My goal would be to be able to hit most of the mezzo-soprano range, able to sing up to maybe F5 or G5 and have it sound convincingly feminine. I don’t need to sound like Ariana Grande, but it’d be awesome to emulate Christina Scabbia.

I know people are going to come in here and tell me it depends on whether or not I have the right physiology and downplay anyone who claims training can improve your range, but I don’t believe that for a second. I’ve seen plenty of anecdotes that makes it clear that the body is a lot more flexible than people give it credit for.

People on singing forums seem pretty convinced that your “voice type” is immutable, so I’m not going to go there to try to get a good answer. Trans voice training is technically quite different from regular singing training, as I understand it.

So, I’ve been voice training for well over a year. I’ve gotten my voice to a place where it’s passable and alleviates my dysphoria. I still have a little bit of work to do because it’s a little too feminized for my features and such, but I’m ready for this to become my voice full time.

I, like many, struggle quite a bit with consistent practice, and I still live with my parents. My family doesn’t support my transition, but they tolerate it with judgement. That adds a little pressure, and it’s made voice training specifically harder because I tend to default to something closer to my starting place around them. That’s become my full-time habit, and I do it even with the people who’ve supported me with my shitty wig and makeup. I also do it around people who didn’t know me before transition, and that makes me really really insecure.

That brings me to ask, how can I make my feminized voice become my full-time habit and finally shed my old voice for good? Any tips and tricks y’all have would be so so appreciated! One thing I’ve been trying is reading books out loud, but I’ve not done it enough to see any progress. Will that be helpful if I do it more consistently? I’d love to hear what you all think and what has worked for y’all.

I’ll attach a little recording of my voice as well just for fun!

ftm. this is how i sound if i try to put a bit of effort into pushing my voice deeper. i think the main problem is everything except for pitch but ive watched a bunch of videos on resonance and all of that but frankly i barely understood a thing. i got told i can do a young/prepubescent boy voice well but idk if it’s just ppl encouraging me or me being too self deprecating. any advice on what to train first could help, or reference voices that you would recommend (since i might learn better from that)

At the end, you can ear my normal voice. On what should I focus to improve ?

Before the critiques, please say that I sound like a man, woman or androgynous.

So, I've been on T for over a year, my levels are pretty high (higher than they should be for a cis man my age at 35, but good for a guy in his late teens) and I still sound 100% female. And I'm not saying I haven't trained and that's why I sound like that. Even when I use the chest voice, it still doesn't sound male. I'm getting all other effects of T but my voice bears no effect of T. Does it take longer since I started later or am I cooked?

I go to inselspital in bern, switzerland. They teach the LAKRU method. She says my "Taschenfalten" are very pressed and that i should work on that.

My lessons include many glissandi, wooow and waaoows tones.

I have upcoming 2nd December a appointment at my doctor. I wonder if 5-6 voice lessons sessions are enough to consider/get approved for surgery?

I am training since 2 years with yt videos btw...

I want natural sounding voice, not super girly voice like all trainers has. I have cis female friend sometimes people online think she's woman or just young boy. But it's obviously still a woman voice. Am I missing something?

(I'm a trans girl- 17 closeted) My goal is just to sound inviting and pleasent to talk to. :)