Free Resources + Groups
Free Resources + Groups
Discord: https://discord.gg/n42arNqRRF
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VOICE SUPPORT GROUP: ALL
Every 1st Tuesday, 7pm Mtn
Virtual with Emberly Lilleland! Confidence coaching for all!
meet.google.com/ekb-jsnk-nwg
FEM VOICE DROP-IN
Every 2nd Tuesday, 7pm Mtn
Virtual with Emberly Lilleland! Tips, tricks, and pointers!
meet.google.com/gwf-eoox-zzt
FAM/FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP
Every 3rd Tuesday, 7pm Mtn
Virtual with Emberly Lilleland! Info, support, coaching, dialogue!
meet.google.com/pvc-kysr-jug
FEM VOICE SUPPORT GROUP
Every 4th Tuesday, 7pm Mtn
Virtual with Emberly Lilleland! Confidence coaching for fems!
meet.google.com/xnn-gugk-tue
MASC VOICE GROUP: VIRTUAL
Alt Tuesdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Virtual with Zo Bolt Northcutt (they/them). Email them for link!
Email: zo@gendervoicecenter.org
MASC VOICE GROUP: IN-PERSON
Alt Tuesdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm
In-Person with Zo Bolt Northcutt (they/them), TGRCNM 1503 Bldg
Email: zo@gendervoicecenter.org
FEM VOICE DROP-IN
Wednesdays, 3pm-5pm
In-Person with Joni Harstine (she/her)! Tips, tricks, pointers! Drop by TGRCNM, 1503 Building!
VOICE SUPPORT GROUP: ALL
Thursdays, 12pm-1pm
In-Person with Allie Locklin (she/her)! Tips, tricks, pointers! Drop by TGRCNM, 1503 Building!
Links to Materials We Use in Session
Links to Materials We Use in Session
All the same resources we use in our sessions, plus groups, drop-ins, and more!
English Harvard Sentences to Practice Voice. Google search them to learn more about their origin and use; or check out this description.
Spanish Harvard Sentences to Practice Voice. Learn more about their creation and use here.
French Harvard Sentences to Practice Voice. Google search them to learn more; or check out this link.
Standardized Passages to Practice Voice. Includes Rainbow Passage, Grandfather Passage, Comma Gets a Cure, Arthur the Rat.
Everyday Conversational Scripts for Voice Practice (download and edit if you wish!)
Online Pitch Mic Showing Harmonics in Real Time: mictest.com/tuners/pitch-detector/
Online Spectrograms: https://spectrogram.sciencemusic.org/ OR https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/spectrogram/
More Practice Materials for Home
More Practice Materials for Home
Online Pitch Mic Showing Harmonics in Real Time: mictest.com/tuners/pitch-detector/
Online Spectrograms: https://spectrogram.sciencemusic.org/ OR https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/spectrogram/
Voice Strengthening Exercises you can do at home
Wendler Glottoplasty aka pitch elevation surgery for transfem voice
Home Practice Log: keep track of your practice!
Steps for GVC's Whisper Voice Technique
(inspired by Confidential Voice Therapy)
Steps for GVC's Whisper Voice Technique
(inspired by Confidential Voice Therapy)
Go to your Harvard Sentences. Focus on one sentence. Whisper the sentence. The whisper should have no sound!
For fem voices, breath should glide along the roof of the mouth. For masc voices, the breath should sit lower.
This primes the breath along the vocal tract and teaches it where to go.
Now say the sentence out loud, pitching up or down. Place the breath where you placed it for the whispered sentence. Repeat with next sentence.
Steps for GVC's Inhaling and Exhaling Patterns
(inspired by Olin EILOBI)
Steps for the Inhaling and Exhaling patterns paired with the voicing for feminine, masculine, and gender neutral voices.
Pair with the straw and water, straw, panting, and Harvard Sentences.
Inhaling/Exhaling Patterns
For Feminine Voice: Basic 3 step process
1. Pant with voicing the sentence high, light, and bright
2. Voice the sentence into the straw/water high, light, and bright
3. Optional 3rd step: 1-3 guhs with cheeks puffed high, light, and bright
4. Lift the chin, Close the mouth, Inhale through the nose
a. DO NOT INHALE THROUGH THE MOUTH!
b. DO NOT SWALLOW THE INHALE OR EXHALE THE INHALE!
5. Lift the tongue up and forward toward the front teeth for the starting position
6. Keep chin lifted
7. Say the sentence and elevate pitch (go higher even if it's into falsetto) and let the
breath come forward; you should hear a lot of breathing coming forward in the
beginning
For Gender Neutral Voice:
1. Pant with voicing the sentence neutral sound and tone
2. Voice the sentence into the straw/water neutral sound and tone
3. Optional 3rd step: 1-3 guhs with cheeks puffed neutral sound and tone
4. Open the mouth, Inhale through the mouth straight back to the oropharynx
a. DO NOT SWALLOW YOUR INHALE
b. DO NOT INHALE THROUGH THE NOSE
5. Tongue stays neutral OR lifts up and forward to skew voice fem OR lowers down and
back toward throat to skew voice masc
6. Say the sentence and let the breath come forward straight back out, do not shift up or
down (imagine the inhale and exhale as a slingshot - straight back and straight back
out)
For Masculine Voice:
1. Voice the sentence into the straw/water low, loose, and deep
2. Open the mouth, Inhale through the mouth, Swallow the breath shifting breath into the
chest
a. OR Open the mouth, Inhale through the mouth, Exhale completely shifting the
exhale in to the chest
b. DO NOT INHALE AGAIN BEFORE SENTENCE PRODUCTION
c. DO NOT INHALE THROUGH THE NOSE
3. Flatten the lips and the teeth to bring them closer together for closed resonance (make
both as flat and close together as possible); reduce smile/pucker lip movements
4. Pull the tongue back and down toward the throat
5. Tuck the chin in toward your neck
6. Say the sentence; you should hear a lack of breath coming forward and mostly hear
grit gravel and boom
Find community on Discord to practice voice! Join the True Voice Group run by current and former clients of GVC.
Click this open invite: https://discord.gg/n42arNqRRF Invite does not expire!
You can also contact the GVC Discord Server Moderator via email at: discord@gendervoicecenter.org
Vocal Fold Size Poster
by Kat Isaacson, M.S., CCC-SLP
Larynx Poster
by Blue Tree Publishing
Respiration Poster
by Blue Tree Publishing
Reminder: Fundamental Frequency Pitch refers to the source of the sound. Pitch ranges related to gender are useful, to a point but they don't reflect harmonics and formants, which give the voice its fullness, richness, and conversation vibrato. Use the pitch charts as a guide, not the final authority.
Signs of Phonotrauma Include: Voice Cutting Out, Loss of Vocal Range, Sudden Change of Speaking Pitch, and Increased Effort While Speaking.
BE KIND TO YOUR VOICE: Vocal rest for at least 4 hours after session (no talking, no practice); throat lozenges; water; warm tea; Throat Coat tea. Sleep!
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