Really useful! I am at the beginning of my feminine voice training and you trans and cis coaches have so many tricks to sound more fem !! It is very useful imo to see multiples coach and different approaches, thank you for all your work it's going to help a lot of trans women around the world!! ( I'm from France 😉)
Resonance is not static and I wholeheartedly disagree! I agree with the point about the exercises, as it's a common problem I see too; especially when doing whisper sirens, people tend to raise pitch as well as resonance in the unvoiced portion and then drop it to go into speech, dropping resonance at the same time. It's better to slide into speech (edit: NOT from unvoiced to voiced, don't do that, but voiced "la" to speech!) I believe, since any pauses can be used to go back to our automatic configuration. Apart from some vowels like /u/ tending to drop the larynx slightly, people also vary mouth shape resonance and even larynx height for emphasis or when changing pitch. Although removing the pitch-resonance conflation is useful early on for transvoice, it's extremely useful for getting a more natural sound to vary it very slightly. A voice needs to be comfortable and well trained before doing it, but resonance is absolutely not static. Changing resonance by +-100hz is completely normal, and people notice a voice is "off" when that pitch-resonance link isn't there at all. Here are some voices that are resonance dynamic: ruclips.net/video/qjC30KkyLLU/видео.html ruclips.net/video/EpM3nWRUqXE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/DYGBmB04SVo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/EpM3nWRUqXE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/3u6snmQNTRQ/видео.html If you don't believe me, use a spectrogram and measure the /a/ or /i/ vowels and see how consistent they are between different pitches.
Definitely! Resonance is what defines different vowels on a physical level, and without varying F1 (or R1 - weirdly enough hardly anyone uses the terminology “formant” in transvoice context anymore, despite being more or less the same thing and the standard term in phonetics) you physically cannot pronounce most vowels distinctly.
Your tutorials are some of the reason why I have finally gotten comfortable with singing female voices in public
Really useful!
I am at the beginning of my feminine voice training and you trans and cis coaches have so many tricks to sound more fem !! It is very useful imo to see multiples coach and different approaches, thank you for all your work it's going to help a lot of trans women around the world!! ( I'm from France 😉)
thank you. i ve been exclusively using my femme for over 3 years but i can always use new pointers.
This was a breakthrough for me - thanks Claire!
wow, that was mind-blowing!
I love your videos! What your saying is actually getting thru my thick head! LOL 💜
This video is gold
OMG best cat bomb ever. Also. Great video. Thanks! :)
Claire, you remind me so much of Hunter Schafer.
Resonance is not static and I wholeheartedly disagree!
I agree with the point about the exercises, as it's a common problem I see too; especially when doing whisper sirens, people tend to raise pitch as well as resonance in the unvoiced portion and then drop it to go into speech, dropping resonance at the same time. It's better to slide into speech (edit: NOT from unvoiced to voiced, don't do that, but voiced "la" to speech!) I believe, since any pauses can be used to go back to our automatic configuration.
Apart from some vowels like /u/ tending to drop the larynx slightly, people also vary mouth shape resonance and even larynx height for emphasis or when changing pitch. Although removing the pitch-resonance conflation is useful early on for transvoice, it's extremely useful for getting a more natural sound to vary it very slightly. A voice needs to be comfortable and well trained before doing it, but resonance is absolutely not static. Changing resonance by +-100hz is completely normal, and people notice a voice is "off" when that pitch-resonance link isn't there at all.
Here are some voices that are resonance dynamic:
ruclips.net/video/qjC30KkyLLU/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/EpM3nWRUqXE/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/DYGBmB04SVo/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/EpM3nWRUqXE/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/3u6snmQNTRQ/видео.html
If you don't believe me, use a spectrogram and measure the /a/ or /i/ vowels and see how consistent they are between different pitches.
Definitely! Resonance is what defines different vowels on a physical level, and without varying F1 (or R1 - weirdly enough hardly anyone uses the terminology “formant” in transvoice context anymore, despite being more or less the same thing and the standard term in phonetics) you physically cannot pronounce most vowels distinctly.
Could you ask "Heat from fire"? It really is pop now...
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