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Learning to love your voice and need some support?

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Lessons I've learned after 10+ years with chronic pain.

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That's unbelieeeevable! (Masculinizing Inflection) gender trans vocal exploration ecourse trans voice trans voice basics mini-course Mar 02, 2023

When we talk about inflection, we're talking about emphasizing certain words in a sentence to give that sentence meaning. English is a highly inflected language, so sometimes the meaning of a sentence can change when you add emphasis to one word or another. For example, the sentence "I never...

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AcousticGender.Space gender mindful voice feminization trans vocal exploration ecourse trans voice trans voice basics mini-course Feb 27, 2023

If you're working on modifying your voice to better align with your gender presentation, then you are probably already used to using a tuner to track pitch (how high or how low a voice is). A lot of my students report being frustrated that there isn't a way to track the resonance (how bright or...

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What should you expect to happen to your voice on Testosterone? gender life testosterone trans voice Feb 22, 2023

When it comes to the voice changes that you can expect on testosterone, what is a reasonable timeline? I've talked to a lot of different people who have taken testosterone exogenously, and the one thing that I can say for sure is that there is no timeline. Everybody's voice changes at varying...

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Trans Voice Teacher VS Speech Language Pathologist degendering the voice gender interviews trans trans voice Feb 16, 2023

I recently had the great pleasure of being on the podcast Gender Reveal and host Tuck Woodstock asked me a really important question: "What is the difference between a trans voice teacher and a speech language pathologist?" Here's what I had to say:

"There's not a big difference, to be honest....

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Early signs that I was nonbinary gender life trans Feb 10, 2023

I'm 35 years old, and I've been identifying as nonbinary for about ten years. But, well before that, when I think back to being 18 years old, there were some signs that I was nonbinary early on. I want to share one of those signs with you.

When I was in university, right out of high school, I...

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Big Dog Little Dog Resonance Exercise gender trans trans vocal exploration ecourse trans voice Feb 07, 2023

I've got a quick and easy exercise that is quickly becoming my new favourite for controlling the resonance of your voice! It's called Big Dog Little Dog.

As I've said before, resonance is controlled by the size and shape of your vocal tract. If you have a small vocal tract, you get a brighter...

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