I went to my first speech therapy session a few days ago to start feminizing my voice. The speech therapist used one of your videos while explaining a few things lol
Loved this! And now that we know "what" a spectrogram is, I hope you'll (please?) do a follow-up with "how" to use it in a practical and effective practice routine. What harmonic ranges should get hotter and cooler between feminine and masculine resonance? What is the biggest "tell" between those two resonance profiles? How high should we see yellow increasing, where should our biggest decreases be? What noises help us target those? How to move from noises to speech? And maybe a selection of examples (maybe from Audible samples? although they'd be highly compressed and cleaner than normal, still likely a good thing to see?). IDK, maybe this is something I should just do myself, but it's what I found myself wanting after seeing this initial intro.
Hoshi Sato yes! I was going to work all of that into this video but the scope felt too large. Will make something like this eventually! Ty for the feedback!
I’m absolutely floored that my journey to finding my voice actually helped me learn something useful for my audio engineering. You are a blessing, thank you so much.
I’ve looked at so many different videos to find ways to make my voice work and it wasn’t until I found your channel that anything made actual sense beyond some esoteric examples. I really appreciate you taking the time to explain the science behind the human voice. My nerd brain loves you for that and I do too. Thank you so much!
You have obviously study voice and music, and I believe this is what all your viewers enjoy. The fact that you talk with knowledge and in this video a visual demonstration, which is lacking in many other similar posts. Keep going, I too am learning so much and your easy style is easy to listen to. Thank you xx🙋🏼🥰
So, I study linguistics and I'm beginning to work with spectrogramms for the first time. My girlfriend, who is a fan, passed me this video (she also recommended me this channel like three times or so). Honestly, this video is a really good video about how spectrogramms work, specially if you are learning about them. If someone here wants to know more about spectrogramms and want to see what they're capable of, in phonetics class we have to use Praaz, which is also free and has many tools (most of them I do not what they do, honestly). I think it's used by most of phoneticists (or whatever the word may be in english), and the programm can mark you which sound is which. So, that. I just wanted to add that, in case anyone is interested.
Your explanations of the "science" behind voice feminisation blows all the other explanations out the window, combined with the exercises and coaching you do the whole process is made so much more simpler.. I cant begin to imagine the difficulty and frustration that many experience who havent yet discovered you, you are an amazing woman and truly inspirational.
That's the most comprehensive video I've seen about spectrograms. Most videos don't explain the 3 dimensions, and without that understanding you get nowhere!! thank you for explaining in plain English. I get it now!
Thanks for another great video! As much as I'm interested in the nuts and voice of vocal modulation, this is all very good information to know, and I'd be hard-pressed to find someone more knowledgeable than you are. I really admire your talent and you've inspired me to think more on how I can develop my own talents that I use every day for the people I serve in my career.
I can't wait to see what my singing sounds like 😆 I'm actually tempted to start reading about sound and harmonics and stuff. It's probably the area of physics I've found the most difficult (I'm more of a mechanics gal)
Uhhh I love this... I remember learning about harmonics when I took phonology and phonetics in my BA. It was all really confusing! This kind of makes everything a bit more understandable. Although I still find it hard to grasp... physical sciences are hard and I'm just a linguist after all! Lol. You are adorable though, I love listening to you explain things! I'm sure you are a great teacher :)
Thanks so much for your comment! I love phonology and soon I'll be starting a phonology series on my channel! Glad I could help shed some insight into this very important acoustic phenomenon.
@@TransVoiceLessons OMG she replyed! i love ur work it's helped me so much and i now have 3 types of apps i use for my voice, pitch app, speech analysis and spectroid. i recently got a job because i don't feel as disphoric about my voice. thanks Z
This is so cool to see! I never really understood how to read the spectrographs you use in your videos! This really helps makes sense of things a bit better. Also, one questions, but do you still have to consciously control your voice to make it sound more feminine? Or is it just something you got used to over time, and it eventually became unconscious?
Thanks so much! I'm glad it's useful. Now that I have so much support on RU-vid and Patreon, I'm able to constantly focus on improving my content and making the best resources for everybody! It's amazing and I'm very thankful.
As for your other question, no I do not have to consciously think about keeping my voice up anymore. I had to for about 2.5 years until it become fully default. A lot of people get discouraged about how at first they have to consciously think about maintaining their voice but that's the most essential step towards muscle memory and behavioral overwrite. Think of it like kicking any behavior you dont want to do (smoking or chewing your nails). At first when people try to quit, they get urges and often relapse back to the unwanted behavior. Then they have to consciously suppress this urge in order to achieve their goal. Think of it as a ratio between Conscious Control and Automatic Behavior. At first the ratio is like 10:1 but the more you use that conscious control, the smaller the ratio becomes until it hits an inversion and now automatic behavior can take over and yield the desired result.
Pinguino del Rio I altered my voice for other reasons (changes less complicated, just tone it down deeper) and it took maybe 6 months of thinking about it and correcting when I realised I wasnt correcting, and now I just need to be careful when I’m stressed out.
Wow this video was amazing! I never really knew what exactly you we're doing with this thing in the other episodes. I guess I gotta go back and watch them again :D
I probably should have made this video a bit sooner but now I can reference spectrograms more directly in my videos and have a video to link back to for those uninitiated.
Thanks Z! If you don't mind me being pedantic though, in general sounds can be slightly different depending on the phase difference of their partials, not that it's of any importance here...
Yeah, digital spectrograms are usually generated using an FFT of a specific time window of audio (usually overlapping windows), at some fixed sampling/conversion rate for the FFT/spectrogram output. As an example, say, the spectrogram may represent the FFT of the last 0.25s of audio calculated and plotted every 0.125s.
Loved the discrption. Thanks. Two quick questions. Given a spectrogram can one recreated the sound? Also Frequencies have a phase and an amplitude? The spectogram does not need a phase, because it is showing the time?
I love your videos, I'm very visual and being able to see as well as hear where the voice needs to be is very helpful. I have a question from left field for you. Last june I was put on disability because of my breathing, when I exhale I have involuntary muscle spasms and my vocal cords fold over each other and blocks the air from getting out. My ENT said he's never seen anything like this. I've had two surgeries on the vocal cords ( and I couldn't convince the doctor put in a few stitches to change my voice ) and they tried botox shots on the vocal cords and nothing has worked. Is this anything that you come across or know of a doctor that might have experienced this. I know this is out of the normal as far as questions go and I wanted to say thanks in advance.
Rachel Lamb thanks for your kind words. Very thankful to have you join our community! As for your question, I have not directly heard of some case like that. I am very curious about the degree of behavioral modification possible to solve that problem though!!
@@symbolicmeta1942 oh I just saw you commented on a diff video. The software in from this video is iZotope Ozone 5 Meter Bridge. The formant tracking app is the link posted above.
it looks like the software you're using is different from the freeware. what is it? just curious. unless the user interface has just changed since you've uploaded this video
Hi.. are you still taking on students for one on one voice lessons? I sent an email inquiry because I am interested in getting personal help, but I have yet to get a response.. I am really really insecure about my voice and I hope I can still get lessons 😰 Please respond, thank you!
Yes! I am absolutely still teaching. More than ever actually. Currently my assistant is trying to process all the inquiries. There is a massive waiting list and we are trying to find the best way to accommodate all of the demand. If you sent an E-mail I'm sure my assistant has indexed it in the order it was sent. We are slowly accepting new students in waves to make sure we don't overbook. I'm actually looking for an apprentice now so I can have another teacher working with my students overtime. Sorry for the wait! The growth of this has been unreal.
