Academy 9 - Transformation 16 - Vocalizing


Welcome back sweetheart.

Today we’re going to work on our voices. You’ve been practicing and exercising your Adam’s Apple for a while and you should be at a point where you can hold it in a higher position relatively easily, it might still feel a little peculiar, but that will disappear with a little more practice.

 

Before you begin, make sure you warm up your voice! We’re going to run through a few exercises and you should be in a position to follow along. If you’re not, go and warm up, get a glass of water and come back when you’re ready.

Ready to go?

Excellent! Let’s begin, male voices come from the chest and female voices come more from the throat and nose. You can “move” where your voice comes from which will change how it sounds.

 

Put a hand on your chest and start talking in your male voice. You should be able to feel the vibrations in your chest, they might be quite faint but they will be there!

 

Once you feel it, you need to move the source of your voice higher up. You can use visualization to help you do this, think of your voice as a light in your chest and as you raise it higher, imagine the light slowly rising.

 

You can exaggerate this at either end, have your voice go ultra deep at the bottom (this can be helpful if you’re struggling to feel the vibrations) and then raise it up so you sound like Minnie Mouse at the top.

 

Some sissies want the ultra high voice but it can sound very unnatural and holding a voice at the extremes will tire it quickly and it will take you longer to become comfortable with.

 

If this is what you want, then I would recommend working on getting comfortable with a more regular femme voice and then stretching out towards the higher reaches. It’s a little like climbing a mountain, you can do it all in one go, but a better tactic is to climb part way, set up a camp and acclimatize and then push on further. The goal is harder, so you need to work longer and smarter but it’s still achievable!

 

You can record yourself as you’re doing this and then play it back to see what it sounds like. These aren’t recordings to keep, use them to hear how your voice sounds when it’s coming from different places.

 

You can use a set phrase like “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” at a few different points then listen back to them all.

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Once you have the hang of this, you then need to combine it with the gentle voice you’ve been working on. Gentle doesn’t mean whispering or even quiet, a letter in a later module will deal with this more, but as well as the physical differences between male and female voices, there are differences in how they communicate. These are stereotypes so should always be taken with a pinch of salt, but men tend to subconsciously treat communication as combat and spit out words like they are commands or punches.

 

We’ll work on this more in future, for now, make sure your chest isn’t tight when you’re talking and your words aren’t being fired out of your mouth like bullets. Exaggeration can be useful here too, go all the way to one extreme, tighten your chest and fire out your words then go to the other, take a few deep breaths, relax and let them gently flow out.

 

Once you can feel the difference, when you’re practicing your female voice remember to just check in and see if your chest is tightening and your words are becoming too forceful and pointed.

 

Homework

You have something to practice here, it can sound a little woolly, but once you start trying it will start to make sense.  

 

Your homework will help with this too. First up, you need a voice analyzer app. There are a few different ones available for free on Android and Apple app stores, tuning apps for instruments work just as well. These apps show you what frequency your voice is at, as we’ve discussed men speak at a lower frequency and women at a higher one.

 

You can combine your new app with moving where your voice is coming from in your body and see how it changes the frequency.

 

Part 2 is to find women who speak in a relatively low and flat (for a female) voice. This might sound impossible but you have access to a ready supply of them. News Presenters/Weather Presenters and Reporters all speak at you and are providing information. They don’t have to make you believe that it’s going to rain tomorrow, they’re just telling you what the model predicts, so they can hold a softer, less urgent tone.

 

Find a local example of one of these women online and make sure there are plenty of videos of her performing her job available. Then you can get to work! Watch her talk and run her voice through the analyzer, then you can repeat what she says and try to match her voice.

 

To begin with, just do a few sentences and repeat them a few times until the analyzer shows you’re getting close then record yourself and record her. You can play them back at the same time to get a feel for where you need to work and then it’s just a matter of repetition.

 

If you’ve been practicing consistently and strengthening your voice, you should be able to increase your sessions to 20-30 minutes, but pay attention if your voice starts to tire or your quality slips. It’s better to be conservative and cut it short then to push because you really want to spend 30 minutes working and risk straining things.

 

Once you get the hang of holding your voice in the right place, you can copy longer and longer clips. YouTube has a subtitle function so you don’t have to remember it all but make sure you keep the pacing of the presenter, not the captions that are popping up.

 

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