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TV news anchor shares his three expert strategies for sounding more confident when speaking to others

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/tv-news-anchor-shares-his-three-expert-strategies-for-sounding-more-confident-when-speaking-to-others

SleepyCatten Jan 23

RE: https://swingset.social/@Mux/115943861466549997

Hey lovely trans+/enby fedi folks

Could any of you perhaps offer some advice for our friend Mux?

This is mostly aimed at German fedizens, but you don't need to be a German fedizen to answer, so long as you have experience of what she's asking.

Unlike us, she's fluent in German, so you can answer her in German, English, or the other languages she speaks.

Persönlich haben wir zu viel Deutsch verlernt 😅🤦‍♀️

Danke 🫶

#trans #transgender #TransFem #VoiceTraining #HairRemoval #AskFedi #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+

Maxi 12x 💉Jan 19

Wow!

For you #trans girls who think their voice is too deep for #voicetraining

https://youtu.be/v82m5Vg1kOY

For you trans girls who think their voice is too deep for voice training

YouTube

Lumen Jan 8

Brains are weird. But I seem to have found a voice training hack for mine.

I have an internal monologue; a major one. Like easily 2/3-3/4 of my thoughts come through as speech. I still see plenty of images and other sensations, but audio is how I think - and it always has been.

Not only do a large portion of my thoughts work as spoken words, but I process much of what people say to me that way. Makes it hard to have a conversation in a loud place, or if the TV volume's too high. I also hear what I say in my head before I say it, and that's where the hack comes in.

I've been voice training for just about seven months. I'm to the point where my therapist and I are no longer just working on being able to use a modified voice recipe; it's now down to tweaking things to sound the way I want. She's very happy with my progress, and to hear some tell it, I'm moving stupid-fast.

A few days ago I realized that my internal monologue is still in my old voice. Or close to it. And for the first time ever I had the idea - why can't I change _that_?

Turns out, I can. It takes some cognitive load (for now), but having my internal voice match the one I've been practicing makes it easier to keep the new recipe up when speaking! Wild, right?

Mentioned this to my therapist today, and it was something she'd never thought of. But since it's not something that'll harm me like raising my pitch too high, she's all for it!

Anyway - brains are weird!

#Trans
#VoiceTraining

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TechnoTenshi

Nov 26

Time to get serious about my voice training.

I really did not have overpowering dysphoria about my male voice before. I tried voice coaching at Seattle Voice Lab and completed about four sessions. I did not see any progress, and after losing my job, I stopped voice training. On top of that, I was very discouraged.

Any time I stumbled upon a voice training video on YouTube, I would save it to a playlist. I never had the motivation to actually watch them or practice. Or rather, I did not want to feel disappointed with myself, remembering my previous experience. I also paid for a couple of voice training apps, and even the full course from Jasmine Vine.

I also began following a lot of transgender content creators, and many of them are trans women who still use their "male" voice and have stated that they are not pursuing voice training at all. I thought that maybe I could take that path too. Voice training is not a requirement for being a trans woman, so I stopped looking for ways to resume/start again from scratch.

Ten days ago, Seattle Voice Lab published a video about one of their former coaches, who was fired after several complaints from students, low performance, and questionable behavior. That was the very same coach who was assigned to me back then, and learning about the types of complaints this person got (which line up with my own experience) made me wonder if voice training itself might not be as bad as the experience I had with that particular coach.

Yesterday’s experience was my first time having really bad dysphoria about my voice. Today I am a lot calmer. I think that as long as I do not hear my own voice through a recording, I will be mostly OK, but now I have renewed motivation to move forward with training.

I have had the pleasure of talking with Jasmine, and she has been really sweet every time, so I am going to give her coaching a serious try. I might even return to Seattle Voice Lab once I can afford it, of course.

Getting SRS within the next year is a possibility, but it is not entirely under my control. Engaging in voice training IS under my control, so I am making the commitment to it, with the goal of having a female-passing voice by this time next year.

My wife really encouraged me today, and she mentioned that sometimes, especially when I say "Thank you," I sound totally cis.

So this fight begins. Wish me luck.

#TransVoice #VoiceTraining #TransWomenAreWomen #TransitionJourney

SleepyCatten Nov 21

We imagine that most folks reading this will probably recognise the tagline:

In space no one can hear you scream

... even if they don't recognise its source (the tagline to Alien).

It makes sense that this continues to get used, in one form or another, in any media set in space, but it also feels like folks are missing a key extension of this.

Nobody can hear you scream because the space around you is a near-perfect vacuum (almost entirely devoid of matter), so sound cannot travel through it.

Using this same logic, if you were in an isolated capsule in space, with near-perfect vacuum all around you, nobody would be able to hear any noise you made.

And there were no windows within that capsule, nobody would be able to see you either.

Imagine the possibilities here for neurospicy people who don't want to be perceived.

For neurospicy trans+ people:

In space no one can hear you voice train.

For many neurospicy people:

In space no one can hear you stream... or record other content.

This post was sponsored by our first lisdex starting to kick in and us being pathologically unable to voice train if anybody can hear us (or if we believe that they can) 😅🤦‍♀️

#InSpaceNoOneCanHearYouScream #InSpaceNoOneCanHearYouVoiceTrain #InSpaceNoOneCanHearYouStream #trans #transgender #VoiceTraining #VoiceTrainingIsHard #neurospicy #neurodivergent #AuDHD

Alien (film) - Wikiquote

SleepyCatten Nov 17

PSA for any trans+ person looking to start, or currently doing, any kind of voice training

Seattle Voice Lab has broken their silence over a former employee of theirs (Jimmy Chen), who set up his own voice coaching service called Trans Voice Lab.

We need to address Trans Voice Lab.

We highly recommend watching / listening to the whole video, but here are some key points within their video:

Jimmy's employment was terminated for "manipulative teaching practices and dishonesty towards" their students.
He downloaded their bespoke training materials (SVL's intellectual property) and client lists (!!!), then used these to set up his own voice coaching service and write a book.
SVL didn't want to have to make the video, but has felt obliged to do so.
SVL is pursuing "legal counsel" over Jimmy's actions.

tl;dr