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Trans people often suffer from voice dysphoria. The right kind of coaching can change everything.
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Thank you!! People keep looking at pitch, but there are cis women with deep, unquestionably feminine voices.
When I thought about it for a while, I think it’s all in the vowels: to make your voice more feminine, make sure your close vowels like your /y/‘s and /u/‘s have the same fundamental frequency as your open vowels like /ɒ/ and /ε/. I think this is what the article means by ‘resonance.’
Keep your voice box in the same ‘place’ in your throat as you switch vowels, and try to use only your tongue to shape them.
I can’t attest to this method too much since I’m not really out (and thus not using a ‘girl voice’), but when I tried to subtly make this one change to my voice (even at the same pitch), the first sentence out of my mouth made a cis coworker flinch. Take that how you will. I never really tried again after that, though.