I have been trying to slowly change my body since early primary school and these videos have helped so much. I genuinely can speak decently femininely now. Thank you so, so much and much love.
Speak less than hour per day (more like week)✔ Voice is quiet or weak ✔ Are basic vocal functions hard ✔ Shy/withdrawn individual ✔ Isolating hobbies, passion, or work ✔ Quiet Household ✔ Period of muteness ✔ I . . . I'm lost 😭 Wish I could put into words how overwhelming this is. Can't even enjoy my lame pun because I feel sick and want to cry.
I know it's been a year but as someone who struggles as well I can tell you that we can do it! Just the fact that we clicked on this video shows that we wanna get better, and we totally will! I believe in you and I believe in me! Let's go, Spider!
i was struggling so much up until now because i didn’t know i was vocally underdeveloped. i played this video a couple times to get the exercises down, and i’m starting to see immediate results. thank you so much for this 💜
Thank you so much for introducing this concept! My voice definitely atrophied early on. I'm autistic and one of my symptoms is incredibly sensitive hearing. I keep thinking that people are yelling at me when they're using regular voices. By extension, my voice is a lot quieter because I want to avoid sounding like I'm yelling. More recently, I've been using my voice less and less since I haven't had much need to use it. Speaking has been getting tougher and I never considered that my vocal cords might be atrophying. I'd certainly like to strengthen it again.
Thank you again Zheanna!! I'm slowly building up the strength to support my ideal resonance and this was such a helpful reminder not to strain past exhaustion, work on volume, and train that stability stamina. Don't abuse your voices everyone out there!!
I picked up doing lip trills each day about a year ago and it really does work! Although I still fit most of the risk factors, I think my symptoms have gotten a looooot better. Also, a quick note about the sustain: if you're recording yourself trying to sustain, many phones and computers automatically apply a "noise reduction" effect. This basically takes any consistent noise over the last few seconds and makes it quieter. So, if you're sustaining the same note and volume, but the playback is drastically reducing the volume after a few seconds, that is a computer effect and you need to turn it off (or if you can't, record with a different device). I'm not sure if sustaining is one that you necessarily need a recording device to make sure you're doing it right, but if you are, just something to keep in mind.
You're a phenomenal presenter! Thank you for always bringing your best self to this important work. You're inspiring confidence, and that might be the best gift anyone can give someone else.
thanks so much for everything Z! I started a short time ago (maybe January) and I've had a surprising amount of progress since then, thanks entirely to your videos. can't express how cool it is that you do this, absolutely planning to sub to the patreon soon
@@TransVoiceLessons oh i actually have a question! might be dumb but it's not specified on patreon, is the discord access permanent or is it only accessible while you're subscribed?
I talk a bunch at work (and train my voice!), but after work, unless I'm doing vocal training, I don't usually speak. Thank you for the strengthening video, it's very much appreciated~
This lesson taught me that I have no lung capacity. I immediately run out of breath after like 8 seconds. I'm really gonna have to work on this to get those notes held as long as possible.
Hello!! Brenda here - i'm mtf and thanks to your videos/lessons i've been training my voice wrong for so looong !! You really dug in and got to the heart and brain of the matter. Fantastic to find out if you make voice training fun it's not a chore or drudgery. My hertz used to be 180 mhtz - now 205 with just a few days of casual practice. (cooking , cleaning, etc...) I.m hooked.and am watching all your videos.....bless you for your fine work !!!
Great video! I just started working with a speech therapist about a month ago and we do these exact same exercises! Thanks for the content as always, your videos were a big help early on in my transition
I loved your videos so much!!!, but always fell apart because my voice was too soft, I'm often criticized by family and co-workers and even friends because it was so soft I never knew it was an actual thing , this gives me so much hope!!! (Also would you consider making a discord community?)
As someone who had basically never talked in my own house or to others in general. Thanks for the tips. I am slowly becoming more confident and comfortable with my own voice.
I made a bunch of progress on a fem-sounding voice, but then it started to get worn out really easily! Someone suggested I should strengthen my voice since I am an under doer. Hopefully this will help and I can become more comfortable at high pitches eventually.
Glad I found you as I was just thinking about this recently. I have an interview coming up and I was watching and recording myself. I have always hated and neglected watching and listening to myself, as I used to be very self conscious. Once I overcame that partially by learning not to care about what others think, so I just spoke how I feel, which does not sound elegant but very jagged, gravely. I also learned a few years ago I have hypothyroidism and may have my whole life, that sure explained some things. So I was thinking about speaking and voice lessons and though of you, and behold synchronicity, your new video topic ;) Thank you.
totally just now realizing that vocal underdoers exist and I had to just sit here as you described my vocal patterns to a tee. this whole project is a breath of fresh air, very thankful to have found this channel
I try to use my femme voice as much as I can at my customer service job, but I don't do any sort of exercises to train my voice. I've had struggles with volume as well, so this should help.
@@TransVoiceLessons if you mark the big videos and the simpler videos clearly (maybe 2 different series) i don't think people would mind :) i'd like to have both and like it if you are open to do what feels right for your process. All the best💜 (Edited a typo out and lost the heart and some upvotes, interesting :D)
One way to deepen a voice faster than anything is a scream that is backed with everything your voice can muster. Also a severely underused voice can have a higher pitch and timbre. However it's important to note that practice gives you strength, control, resilience, and endurance. Strength being claimed by the masculine, and control a source of feminine strength. I've talked about using deafness in voice modulation, when wearing earplugs, or even talking while wearing earphones, my voice automatically adjusts its timbre because I hear a smaller part of the sounds I'm making. it's really interesting and I highly recommend exploring the effects that safely limiting hearing has on vocal modulation tendencies.
Oh, I've been all over the board on my vocal usage, with literally years in either extreme, so I have all the tools to use my voice, and a good amount of controlled vocal atrophy to go along with it, which in this field can actually be highly beneficial. Zheanna, even your voice has greatly atrophied in your former lower range, so vocal atrophy isn't one-dimensional and can't be assigned to "good" or "bad"~~
Thank you so much for making this video. Your checklist validates my experience in so many ways! I am also a bit shy and introverted, which feeds into the loop of being a vocal underdog-er. Hoping I can make progress in finding the potential in my voice!
i recently discovered I''m trans. i had been attracted to transgirls before but over the last few months i've been imagining myself *as* a transwomen more and more not just being with a trans girl, and i had this vivid dream about being a women based on my female fallout 4 character, with the same hair, face, and bodyshape. Her name was Eliza, as a female version of my name Eli originally so i now go by Eliza. But i know one of the things i need to practice is my angry rants and yelling at/berating people while still sounding famine and not slipping up and sounding a man again. My male voice wasn't that deep, but it was still masculine, and me now becoming trans doesn't take away from the fact that i liked being masculine as a man. and I'm 28 now and i learned that the late 20's/early 30's is when gender dysphoria onsets on average, but i had always assumed it was something that happened in puberty like being gay or bisexual (i'm bisexual myself, and yes still bisexual as a transwomen)
Thank you so much. You are so kind to make this available, so professional in your work, so inspiring in your presentation. I wish I had you there 50 years ago!😂❤ Much love, Kay
This is a very specific request, but I ‘d love you to make a video for non binary/trans-fem people, to show us which features we can add to our voices to not sound too ‘girlie’. I myself am slowly starting to apply resonance, softness and pitch in my everyday life, but sound a bit like a male-gazey video game character.. any tips on getting a more ‘grunge’ vibe are also appreciated
I'm NB and transfem too and also going for a more androgynous voice, like you described. I've basically just started working on my voice. As this comment is a year old, was there anything you figured out or any resources you ended up finding that helped?
@@ivyivyyiivvvyyyyvy look at zhea's fullness/underfullness video for a full range of examples. heavier weight (like, medium weight), and medium pitch from 140hz-230hz not higher. Don't drop your resonance, keep it raised. (also known as small vocal size). But try to avoid going overfull with it. Will give you enby west coast lesbian vibes.
Thanks so much for this! I'll definitely be using these exercises soon. I talk very little, but I sing a lot (not well at all, but whatever, it's still fun), which I'm hoping has prevented my vocal skills from completely deteriorating. Hopefully this will help me gain confidence in my voice. Thank you!
You are AMAZING! I'm definitely a vocal underdoer and I feel seen by this video. Haha my dog got really confused when you were demonstrating those exercises in the beginning. But THANK YOU SO MUCH I'll practice these exercises to add some strength to my voice
Watching your videos I came up with and understood 4 functions, though the 5th one is brutal but I did it anyway. Accent - I did British yeah? Like, from Doctor Who, Clara the impossible girl and the other one as well that's a bit pepper in her speak. Vocal control - ranging from a high falesto and making a squeaky anime girl voice, two a soft mommy voice and learning how to level those two and find a balance. Although I am no professional I sought to sing and voice act as a guide. Larneix strength - Stretching the Accent and then like learning to change the cords in my throat to soften over strainng them with the rythem in mind. Voice pattern - the ability to recognize the various ways the female repesentive speaks. Like a river and current always changing. Partially spiritual, partially scientific. Finally the 5th I told my brain to shut up or die I am in control of this narrative. You spoke one videoa phrase such as Heat in Fire and Fire in Heat. The Dremah we are heat and fire as well as voice. It's thanks to you and your video that day that lead me to understand this system I've made. And I thank you for that.
Anyone else got hiccups (can't stop for >5min now) from exercising with a straw in the water? (Doing pitch sirens specifically.) I felt the air pressure was "vibrating" weirdly with the bubbles (maybe that's what caused hiccups), is this "normal"?
I never talk because A my jobs so loud I can’t hear what anybody is saying. B We’re not supposed to talk a lot unless it’s about work. C until recently had crippling allergy’s. I hope this video helps like the others. The most noticeable side effect is with better control over my voice I can force my body to breathe properly
Signs of an undeveloped voice : - Yes - Also yes - I'm starting to worry - Oh god - Kill me now - Sadge But what did I expect lol, for the past 5--7 years I mostly been either whispering to myself or talking to friends via discord, which means I spoke in a volume that is JUST above whispering so the mic recognizes the voice. (Sometimes my friends also say that my voice chopped off, probably due to me being too quiet for the mic sensibility settings i use.)
This video was super helpful ! I think I’ve been neglecting a lot of focus toward volume in my practice. Also you have SO many keyboards are you ever gonna use one in a video?
I have a question regarding Softies ^^ I breath through my nose automatically once i start them, should i pinch my nose with my fingers closed or not, if pressure is escaping that way? Otherwise, extremely helpful video, thank you Z! :D
i didn’t even know this was a thing. i wondered why voice training was just going in the direction where i try for 5 minutes , get frustrated , and cry cuz i can’t even hold a noise for 2 seconds without it breaking.. now i know to . do whatever this is called firsr i already forgot but. yippee
That key to mastery quote is just universal, absolute gem Unfortunately, if we try to apply this to everything we desire to improve on in our lives, that's a speed run to burnout. Choose your battles wisely everyone Great video!
I work on a building site.Been constantly trying to hide the fact im trans,man its soo difficult.Any time its come out in the open im trans i get the sack and they say itsy work.Last thing im going to do is talk feminine on a building site. Life's hard in this industry. Its changing slowly though maybe one day i will be accepted !
literally first tip is my problem. I spend a solid 15 hours a day not saying a single word. Not a joke or an exaggeration or anything else. I just literally don't talk.
In your videos, you show the different aspects of sound visually on a program. What program is that? Is there a simple version you can recommend (I'm assuming yours is more complicated since you do so much sound/voice work)? Love the videos ❤❤❤
I haven't properly talked for almost a year now and when I do, my throat hurts and I develop dry cough. Is this because I haven't talked in a while I wonder. Tests from laryngoscopy and endoscopy didn't find anything 🤔 did anyone else get throat pain and dry cough when speaking?
It makes sense that if you haven't used your voice (or any muscle for that matter) for a long time, it'll be difficult to use them again. If I read aloud for a while, my throat gets sore and scratchy, feels like there's a lump in it, and I get a dry cough. I suppose gradually increasing the amount that you're using your voice would help. Making sure your throat is well lubricated (water, cough lozenges), and not straining your voice. Maybe try practice reading aloud every day but avoid pushing past the point where you get the pain and coughs. Then when you feel more comfortable, you can experiment with volume and whatever else.
I might be doing the exact opposite of under-doing. I'm afraid that for 8 or so years I've unknowingly spoken "incorrectly" (I certainly do not speak for brief periods only), to the point where my throat and vocalization is all kinds of broken - it's scratchy, it quickly gets painful (sometimes within 10-20 minutes), it feels like something's wrong and sometimes no sound comes out at all, it's just air. Overall my voice is not at all comfortable to use and it's honestly pretty worrying.
How about weakening strong voices? My voice is too strong and no matter what I do I can't get rid of the horrible base resonance and vocal weight without sounding super breathy. What's the solution?
So I have alot of control over my 'falsetto' range but I have neglected my natural range because I don't like the gravelly (I sound like I'm sick) sound and I can't seem to get very loud even when I'm screaming....
im a little late to this, but - do you have any advice for someone struggling with higher pitches? i find that i can't maintain vocal fold adduction as i go higher, even with SOVTes. is this a transition you're masking as you slide up in pitch, or could i be missing something thats stopping me from holding onto that closure?
