Ugh I hate voice training so much but after yesterday’s breakdown while trying and getting two “voice analysis” results showing “0% female, 92% male” I decided to watch some videos I’ve seen recommended, and honestly YuukoEX was the one that helped me the most because I feel like I can try to emulate her voice better than others I’ve heard.

After spending yesterday on exercises and trying to figure out various muscles around my throat, I managed this:

It’s not much, but it’s an improvement!

Also, I’m trying eye liner today! It’s a little smudged in one or two spots, but it makes a HUGE difference in my own perception! I even took a face selfie! On purpose!! (for myself I am not nearly confident enough to post lol)

So if you need the reminder, I guess here it is!

  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Don’t read too much into those percentages. IIRC app uses solely pitch to generate that ratio. It has no way of measuring how masculine or feminine your voice actually sounds.

    Any woman could get 100% male just by talking deep while still sounding like a woman, and vice versa.

    Pitch is one factor that humans use to assume gender, but it’s not the only one and most vocal coaches agree that it’s not even the most important one.

    My speech therapist helps a lot of trans folks and she specifically recommends people don’t use the analysis feature of that app because it usually just discourages people.

    • Waldelfe@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’m a CIS-woman. I just stumbled upon this post and tried the app for fun. I got 71% female and 29% male. I can also get the app to show 92% male be simply talking in a deep voice that I guarantee sounds nothing like a man but like a woman lowering her voice. Not saying that the app is useless, just take the results with a grain of salt.

      • emmmy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        30 days ago

        Thank you for experimenting and posting this! It’s really helpful to have confirmation of what we’ve been telling folk starting training.

        Voice Tools is nice to get pitch where you want it and to monitor how consistent you are with it, but pitch alone is truly insufficient for voice feminization and people tend to get too focused on it because of apps like this.