You may be trans, or nonbinary, or questioning your gender, and somewhere near the top of your list of transition goals is changing how your speaking voice sounds. You are not afraid of a little research. That is probably how you ended up here.
Maybe you are completely new to voice training, in which case, welcome. Or maybe you have a playlist of favourite voice training videos, a folder of articles and Reddit threads in your bookmarks bar, and a couple of physical books on the subject. You have downloaded Voice Tools. You are possibly brave enough to make recordings. You have played around with Acoustic Genderspace.
And after all of that, you feel lost, confused, and short on direction. Like you have trudged through a forest, you are low-key exhausted, and the trail ends with no landmarks at all. You do not even know what your goal is, let alone whether you are moving towards it. I made something for exactly this. In this post and in the video below, I am announcing my new book, The Trans Voice Practice Journal: Explore, Track, and Claim Your Gender-Affirming Voice, which is available to pre-order now. Here is who I wrote it for, what is inside, and how to get 20% off.
Watch the Announcement Video
Everything below is covered in the video, so watch whichever way suits you better.
Why Trans Voice Training Leaves So Many People Feeling Lost
In the years I have spent teaching gender-affirming voice, I have met hundreds of people in the position I described above. Enough that I stopped treating it as a personal failure of research skills and started treating it as a structural problem.
There is a lot of information out there, and a fair amount of misinformation mixed in. No two people are the same, and everyone needs something a little bit different. So the difficulty is rarely a shortage of material. It is that nothing tells you which material is yours. You can read every article, watch every video, and still have no way of knowing whether the thing you did on Tuesday helped, or whether you are any closer to a goal you have not yet put into words. I wrote about that gap in Identity-Based vs Target-Based goals, because a goal like "a more feminine voice" gives you nothing to check yourself against.
It makes complete sense that trans voice training leaves people frustrated and overwhelmed. The work is abstract, the feedback loop is slow, and most of the tools available are designed to teach you a technique rather than to help you keep track of your own practice.
Identity-Based vs Target-Based Goals
Announcing The Trans Voice Practice Journal
If you have been following me for a while, you know my whole thing in the gender-affirming voice space is making the tools that do not exist yet. I take what I see over and over again from working with students, and I ask myself what is missing. What do people actually need in order to succeed?
Over the years that has meant self-directed courses, practice log templates, a practice games ebook, a vocal anatomy colouring book, and a good deal more. Several of those are sitting in my free resource library right now.
This time it is something bigger. The Trans Voice Practice Journal: Explore, Track, and Claim Your Gender-Affirming Voice comes out on November 19, 2026 in the US and the UK. It is 272 pages, paperback, and available to pre-order now.
Through an actual publisher, I should add. It is being printed as I write this, so I do not have my own copy yet, and I will not pretend to be cool about it. I am very hype!
What Is The Trans Voice Practice Journal?
Think of it as a guided workbook, split down the middle.
The First Half: Building a Practice You Can Sustain
The first half is exercises and prompts. They are there to help you build a practice you can actually keep up, work out what your goals are, and figure out which framework makes the most sense for you and your life. Discovering your goal is treated as part of the work, not as a prerequisite for starting. If you do not know what you are aiming at yet, that is a normal place to begin, and the book meets you there. If you want to start that exploring before your copy arrives, How to Pick a Voice That Feels Like YOU has three exercises for it.
The Second Half: Templates for Tracking What Works
The second half is templates. You use them to record which exercises work best for you and how they are moving over time. Sessions, objectives, techniques, and space to reflect on any of it.
This is the part I think will surprise people. Tracking is what turns a pile of scattered practice into evidence that you are getting somewhere. When progress is slow and hard to hear from the inside, written records are frequently the only proof you have.
I have written about tracking before, and these are a good preview of the thinking behind the journal:
5 ways to TRACK your trans voice practice (+ free templates!!)
Add reflexive journalling to your voice practice (freebie inside!)
A new way to track your trans voice practice! (FREE DOWNLOAD)
Who The Trans Voice Practice Journal Is For
This book is a place to keep your voice practice. Everything you are already doing can be documented and tracked in these pages, whether you are following a course, studying with a teacher, seeing an SLP, self-directing your practice, or running some unique combination of all three.
So it is for:
The self-directed learner who has assembled a practice out of videos, articles, and trial and error, and wants somewhere to keep it all straight.
The person working with a teacher or an SLP who wants to hold onto what happened between sessions.
The person on day one who does not know their goal yet.
I tried to make something that works for anyone, on any path, with any voice goal. Keeping it accessible mattered a lot to me, so it is not heavy on jargon, and it is written to sound like a person talking to you.
Navigating Trans Voice Training: Self-Study, Private Lessons, or Online Courses?
Why I Did Not Write Another How-To Guide
I could have written a how-to guide. There are already a great many of those, and you can cobble that information together from the internet if you are determined enough.
What I wanted to make instead was a tool that can hold every how-to guide. Something that sits underneath whatever method you are using rather than competing with it. It is the map you plan your path on, and the place you mark down your favourite spots for next time, rather than the history book about the region.
That distinction is the whole design of the book. It does not care where your exercises came from. It cares that you have somewhere to put them, and some way of knowing which ones are working.
A Book That Is Meant to Be Written In
This one is designed to be written in, dog-eared, highlighted, marked up, taped into, and made completely your own. Nothing about it is precious.
My hope is that in doing all of that, the book becomes the place where your practice lives, and helps turn a frustratingly abstract practice into something concrete and grounded in your real life. A practice you can hold, flip back through, and point at.
Why Paper, and Why Right Now
I am certain there are others out there like me who prefer physical media. My shelves are full of CDs, DVDs, and books, and I have no plans to change that.
But there is a practical side to it too. Given the state of the internet these days, I find something genuinely comforting about having this kind of information literally with me. A book does not get taken down, reorganized, paywalled, or quietly edited. It sits safely on your desk, waiting for you.
How to Pre-Order and Save 20%
The Trans Voice Practice Journal is out on November 19, 2026 in the US and the UK, and you can pre-order it now.
As a thank you for reading, that link takes 20% off automatically. If you would rather do it by hand, or you are already partway through checkout, the code is VOICE20.
Get 15% Off Any of My Courses When You Pre-Order
As an extra thank you, anyone who pre-orders a copy gets 15% off any of my trans voice courses.Email me your proof of pre-order, and I will send the code over.
That 15% will more than cover the cost of the book, so if you were thinking about a course anyway, you can essentially get the journal for free. The courses it applies to are:
That is the big news. I have been sitting on this for more than a year and I am so glad to finally be able to talk about it.
I poured my heart and soul into The Trans Voice Practice Journal, and I really do believe it is going to make a difference for people. If your trans voice training has ever felt like walking through a forest with no landmarks, this is the thing I wish you had had at the trailhead.
Pre-order your copy here with 20% off, and if you do, I would love to know. Tell me in the comments on the video.
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