About Transgender Female Voice

If you're transitioning from male to female, you know the importance of having a good female voice. But as anyone who's tried it knows, having a natural sounding female voice involves a lot more than just trying to speak at a higher pitch. The reason of course, is that although pitch is important, male and female voices also differ in other important ways such as resonance characteristics, speech patterns, and other voice qualities. The good news is that by mastering the techniques for making all of these voice characteristics more female at a correctly chosen pitch, you can develop a voice that's easily accepted as naturally female; a voice that actually confirms your female gender instead of working against you.

About Laura Scott

Laura Scott developed her own female voice from what started as an extremely masculine baritone, and since then has helped hundreds of transgender women to improve their female voices. She offers private voice lessons, both in person and in online sessions, and teaches an ongoing class in female voice development at the LGBT Center in New York. For the past six years she has conducted the twice-monthly online audio conferences for the Yahoo VoiceTS group, providing female voice instruction and leading group discussions on all aspects of transgender female voice development.

Female Voice Instruction

Whether in classes or in individual sessions, Laura works with students to address all aspects of female voice development. You'll learn to find a personal optimum target pitch and how to use it comfortably, effectively, and automatically. You'll learn to develop more female resonance by the use of larynx raising, forward voice placement, and other techniques, and to develop natural female speech patterns by the use of sentence melody and the development of female word inflections and enunciation patterns.

Each student, whether attending classes or taking private lessons, receives an email after each session that reviews the topics covered, provides an outline of the student's practice routine to be worked on between sessions, and often includes comments on the student's progress, audio clips, and other resources to demonstrate concepts and practice routines. Each email is personalized to the particular situation and the specific material covered with that student.