The best way I’ve found to learn how to have an effective feminine voice is through mimicry. If you’ve done steps one through three correctly, you should have a kickass lower-registered-female hum! Great! Have some ice cream to celebrate! Now comes the fun part – actually speaking. Continue humming around a middle C and a few notes above and below for a couple of weeks until you are comfortable. Can you hit the range between middle C and E? Remember, you don’t want to go incredibly high – it won’t sound natural. That’s great! Compare your humming pitch with a piano. You’ll find with a raised larynx, your voice will actually be higher than you are used to. After 2-3 weeks of doing steps 1 and 2, you can finally start humming.Another way to describe it is the feeling of ‘tucking’ your larynx up and inside your throat. Keep at it! Do it once in the morning and once at night for 5-10 minutes (or longer if you feel like your throat is strong enough. This will eventually become so normal you won’t even notice it, but at first it will feel very weird. It is absolutely possible, and with the right muscle control you will be able to hold up your larynx and relax your tongue. After about a week or so of doing this, you should start to be able to feel out the muscles that are holding your larynx up more acutely, and this time try to keep it held while relaxing your tongue so you can breathe.Do this at morning and at night, followed by a glass of warm water. And once your larynx starts to hurt/ache, STOP. Try to hold the swallow for as long as you can. You won’t be able to breathe at this moment, because your tongue is helping to hold up your larynx. Now next time you swallow, hold the swallow when your Adam’s apple is at the highest point. Do you feel your Adam’s apple rise when you swallow? Okay, great. So for a period of two weeks or so, before you try humming or speaking at all, you’ll want to practice raising your larynx (basically your Adam’s apple) and keeping it raised indefinitely. I came across this tip once in an old YouTube video on training your female voice and it helped me exponentially.
Okay, so if you want to target a middle C and have it sound natural, there is a set of exercises you need to do first before you start trying to speak, and that is raising the larynx. Both are just as important, in my opinion, but let’s start with pitch! So, let’s divide the article into two sections: pitch and enunciation. Sometimes going too high can hurt your passing ability rather than help it. Humans have a stellar intuition for things that seem ‘off’, and if your voice is too high for your speaking mannerisms, body type, or comfort level, they can pick up on that right away. I’ll touch more on this later, but trans women have a tendency to overcompensate and have the lightest, fairy-est voice they can to try to sound feminine. And then who’s going to pass flawlessly while talking to telemarketers? Not you, that’s for sure. But if you push your voice too hard you could strain it. Eventually you will be able to sustain it all day, every day. If you feel your voice hurting/aching, STOP and rest. This process will take weeks to months to perfect.
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