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Voice tips for video calls

Here are some tools and video set-up that can help you achieve and maintain gender techniques and healthy voicing while on a video call.

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Aligning your inner voice with your outer voice

The voice in your head may not have a sound to you, but if it does, it may sound more like an undesired, unmodified voice and less like the speaking voice that is changing and serving you better. In that case, aligning your inner voice with those outer changes may help you achieve more overall progress and vocal satisfaction.   

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Start and end well

Maintaining your chosen voice techniques can be challenging at any level of your gender affirming voice process. Are you starting to practice talking, and find it mentally challenging to think of what to say while also modifying how you sound?

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Tracking your voice in different contexts

Have you noticed how your voice and communication can change depending on the situation? How do you talk to a coworker, boss, classmate, friend, family member, coffee shop barista, or pet? What words do you use? How does your voice sound?

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Live Zoom discussion about voice

On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 1:00 pm EST, Lilia Koss of FACIALTEAM will host a FREE live Zoom event with myself, Christie Block, and my colleague, Christella Antoni, as special guests for a discussion about the nature of voice training for transfeminine speakers.

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Free voice workshops in July

Ten Exercises for a More Feminine Voice, Friday, July 26, 2019, 3:00 - 4:00 pm

Ten Exercises for a More Masculine Voice, Saturday, July 27, 2019, 1:45 - 2:45 pm

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"Does it bring you joy?"

Here is a link to the 4/8/19 episode of Nancy, the critically-acclaimed podcast on WYNC that features stories and conversations about TGBTQ experiences:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/nancy-podcast-does-it-bring-you-joy

In this episode, one of the hosts, Tobin Low, a cisgender gay man, discusses how he came to see me in my office in order to verify if he was lowering his pitch on purpose to avoid sounding too feminine, and whether that was the cause of his vocal fatigue and hoarseness. 

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