To be fair, I told her right off the bat that I didn't care about pitch. It is by far the worst indicator of a 'passing' voice. There were plenty of women who spoke beautifully with pitches far lower than mine--
I'M TALKING ABOUT THE MOMMY VOICE BTW 😏
--and after five months of self-teaching on YouTube, I had well and truly stagnated. Of course, she understood that pitch wasn't, and has never been, the main point of voice feminization. If she did not, I would have found someone else.
Another thing my voice therapist seized upon--and that I confessed rather early--was my completely inability to hold any sort of consistent accent. I am some rather violent mix of American and English accent with tinges of Chinese in between. Despite living in New Zealand for most of my life, no amount of NZ accent ever penetrated my voice because, well, immigrants tend to hang out with other immigrants. The common twitter joke that learning from Trans Voice Lessons on Youtube will give you a Cali girl accent was slowly becoming true for me.
We'll fix your consistency with your intonation as well.
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If anyone reading this has had a voice coach in the past, I would love if you were willing to share how many sessions it took before you were satisfied/felt confident in continuing your own training. Obviously, this differs between everyone, but I mostly want a rough idea so I can budget plan for the future.
but it seems to suffice, most of the time
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