Start by imitating the breathing of a big dog.
Slowly shift to imitating the breathing of a little dog.
Notice the what your mouth and throat are doing differently for each.
Masculine is the big dog / low resonance.
Feminine is the little dog / high resonance.
Resonance matters as much as pitch - maybe more than pitch - in terms of gender-affirming your voice.
Big Dog Breathing —> Little Dog Breathing.
It’s cringe to do, but fuck it.
It reminds you of those copy-pastas that make you pantomime a blow job or something, but it’s not that, I promise.
Just try it.
Big dog.
Small dog.
Resonance.
I’ll keep talking about this until somebody tells me I shouldn’t.
Try it.
Do it.
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I’ve been doing this and I have made progress! It works, voice training sucks, like 80% of my struggle with it at the start was the cringe and then the next 80% of my struggle was using my femme-est voice I had out in public. I feel like I have such a long way to go, but when I’ve tracked my voice over the last year even though I still don’t like it - it is more femme and that’s undeniable by the comparison.