It's no good sissy looking the part and not acting it to. |
The Laryngeal Cartilage: This is the “moveable” piece of cartilage that you can feel rising if you place your hand on the throat and sing a rising scale such as doh, re, mi, fa, sol, lah, ti, doh. If you baseline pitch is “doh”, your natural masculine voice, then you might aim for “fa” to be your feminine voice. Try to find a level that feels comfortable and not too squeaky.
Place the emphasis on pitch, not volume: Men place emphasis on their speech by varying loudness, but keep their pitch within a very narrow range. Women tend to keep their loudness constant but vary their pitch a great deal to express emphasis.
Speak slowly, enunciate clearly: Especially consonants at the beginning and end of words. Don’t mumble. A clear voice requires fairly big lip movements. On the whole, women enunciate much more clearly and precisely than men. Start and end sentences slowly and gently. Do not sound clipped. Male speech tends to be characterised by what speech therapists call “hard attack”, the first syllable is pronounced very hard and quickly. Women usually start a sentence more softly.
Get sissy to practice with a microphone. You'll be surprised how quickly she picks it up! |
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