That’s a bit on the nose

Omg, your eyeliner is perfect ^~^

I needed this sooo much!! 😭 💕 I have trouble breathing out of my nose, so I will take all of the help I can get. ☺️

I don't think I've had much of an issue with nasality, but now that I'm aware of exactly what it is, I'll be able to identify and correct my voice if/when it's recognized. Thank you! ❤

The confusion about what is and isn't nasality reminded me of a class I took as part of my education as a Sound Designer. The class centered around a book that dives into the semantics of sound, and tries to establish a common language with which to describe sounds in a general sense. My lecturer said, that describing sound in *general* has almost never been done, and that this book is pretty much the only resource on the matter - Music, speech, song, etc all have their own established languages, but how do you compare a singing voice with the ocean, or the BWOOMP from a movie trailer, or a field recording containing muliple uncorrelated sounds? The book was written in 1999 (Speech, Music, Sound by Theo Van Leeuwen) which is just nuts to me. We've just been sorta unable to talk properly about how things sound, and we still are. My point is that one of the characteristics he comes up with is Nasality - again, not in relation to speech, but to any sound in general. So when people describe those characteristics as "Nasal" it's kinda the best word for it people have. And, as you explain so well, it's completely different from nasality in the context of using your voice. Great video

I’m not even trans I’m just trying to sound less nasal. Great video!

13:15 i love you for that spy reference

I learn Portuguese which has nasal vowel sounds that I could not understand how to pronounce so your segment where you pronounced vowels nasally really helped understand everything!

I’ve been waiting for a nasality overview! I knew it was an issue, but I was going 100% nasal… raising my larynx just shifts it all into my nose 😢. With this video I hope to slowly work through this…

What can I do about screaming? Because every time I get scared by something, my voice gets strangely heavy and a lot of the time it doesn't come out, it's also necessary to speak a little louder in different environments Noisier where it is necessary to speak a little louder, it is also a problem because sometimes people don't understand what I say because my voice is a little low, I don't know what to do about it, I would like of aid 😢😢😢

This weirdly helped get better at Layne Staley vocals, thanks!

just got through ur yt core discography for the first time. thank u z (and clover and anyone else at or outside of tvl who helped make these videos exist). i was a chronic under-user with vocal atrophy before i started transitioning 6 months ago. these videos have rly helped me feel more at home in my own skin, mouth, and mind.

Once again your videos are super helpful with busting myths in our voice training~ Sometimes my voice murmurs (or sounds like a hum). But these exercises help clean up my voice - Thanks So Much!~ 💖♀

fran!!! yes!! shes one of us😭

3:26 That is the Bobbiest Bob I have ever seen in my entire life.

Okay, but I've literally been spending the past 5 months trying to "fix" this, I've already filled out a form and was about to see a Speech Pathologist. This was a much needed watch.

Didn't know that something as simple as opening the hard palate can affect voice so much. I'm strugling with voice feminization so much because of my larynx anatomy and think your video can actually help me to achieve something. Thank you so much ❤

Really illuminating video, thanks!

This was surprisingly helpful for increasing my nasality. :)

my goat

Definitely going to come back to this when I can! It's difficult trying to work out what is too much nasality when you're from a specific part of the world where nasality is just kind of naturally occurring in the accent. In my case West Scotland Being reassured that it's not the be all, end all and there's a lot more nuance to it is great

Im re-watching this a few times. Focusing and Distractions! I do appreciate the follow along

15:51 so, among other things, I've now learned that there is a subgenre of rock called "butt rock". The more you know.

That Mister Sheffield check is a good one😭

Wow this is an excellent in-depth video that helped me further my understanding! 💜🔥☺ I knew that people were describing many different sounds as "nasal" that were not actually nasal. It seems people use it as some kind of shorthand or placeholder for describing something about a voice that they think detracts from the femininity. Like you say at the start, I think it's usually "buzzyness" that they're really talking about. I didn't have full confidence in my own ability to consistently differentiate nasality as an auditory quality but if I do some of the explorations in this video I think I will sharpen that perception more. I really liked that you emphasized that more nasality does not mean less feminine in any intrinsic way, like you said there are very clearly feminine voices that are quite nasal. The degree of nasality that might be seen as feminine or "normal" etc. is a question of language and dialect. (as well as maybe other categories like culture or class?) It's also really great that you underlined that parts of this analysis of nasality are specific to English (with plenty of variance on this among dialects within English). Butregardless of the specific language factors for an individual, I'm sure being able to better perceive and play around with this quality will be very helpful for anyone doing voice feminization or other voice training projects. I will look forward to using the same skills you're teaching us to explore here as I practice my voice feminization in French too!

you are one in a million, beautiful and charismatic

Its just so mindblowing that nasality doesnt sound at all what most ppl pretty much told me (as u dispelled at the beginning of the video) :O . It makes the entire thing now really countierintuitive if somone now tells me im too nasal

Curious ! For a non-American/English native like me (French), the difference is huge. I'm used to your every day voice, and easily understand everything you say and when you change to nasally I'm lost! Your approach to tones and voice frequencies is a lot of work ! And my english is probably bad !

Ron DeSantis could stand to learn from this video. Both in terms of, as David Lynch put it, "fixing his heart or dying," as well as overcoming his own insufferable honking.

Thanks Dear🙂❤️❤️❤️❤️

shout out to nano for helping me find this

For me I was actually sounding nasally not because of nasality but because I was subconsciously adding vocal twang as well. If you pinch your nose and still sound a bit nasal, look into controlling vocal twang.

I’m trying to work on it. I have more of a buzzing sound. I kind I was doing the voice training wrong the past few years. I’m trying to play catch-up with it now but it’s difficult.

In order to place the voice in the 'mask', many speech therapists use m,n, and ng exercises. However, singing is usually done with a focus on the vowels. Question: how do we reach a placement in the mask if we completely close off the nasal space with the soft palate when singing vowels? Does this rather happen by lifting the larynx(resonance lift) and/or by reducing the weight? In other words, what do we need to do to avoid speaking and singing too much from the throat?

Hi Zebra, remember when you peed yourself in a diaper? Haha, stew and brew amirite?

Is there a way to speak more deeply if you are a transman who is not on hormones and probably will never be?

Hi, i have insane troubles with reducing buzziness in my voice, for the love of god i cant reduce it even a bare mininum, any tips?

Hey if I were to upload videos of my trying/practicing a female voice could someone critique? I started today and would like to try to do things quickly if possible, haha. I'm aware it'll take time but I'd like to try to avoid mistakes.

How does something like a deviated septum calculate into this? Asking for a friend, ty! :D

Interesting to start watching this because I recently was told my voice was too hypernasal but it sounded fine to me so maybe it was something else. Hopefully you address both nasality and that general buzziness in this video. (tho still wish I could figure out what's causing my pain when speaking.... It isn't that bad, just a bit of pain/almost dryness when ive been speaking too long and no matter how much water I drink. I don't feel any tension whatsoever when I speak, it feels natural, yet still, pain a bit after speaking for a while) EDIT: Nose test, IT WASNT NASALITY lol EDIT 2: okay so yea just gotta figure out how to get rid of this quality, you called it buzzy, brassy, twangy so I guess I'll start searching around for those terms.

How do u increase nasallyness? I think it sounds cool tbh

Thanks Im trans now. Jk. I have a very nasal voice as a man. Thanks for this video. I also dig the sexy outfit.

Can I do this during puberty 😭

but how do i remove nasality . . .

I love your sheer top

Hello Z. I don't know if you reply to the comments section anymore, but I have a few questions. First of all, I want to say that, at least when I have actually voice trained, your videos have been a major help. That said, I am not great about voice training consistently. Part of that is just my paranoia about getting outed to anyone. Do you have any advice to voice train while you are not out. Coming out is not an option, as I am in an unsupportive environment. Second of all, I was wondering if you still did scholarships for youth in bad environments. I don't remember the exact wording, but I do remember from a livestream a few years ago that you did offer them. Are you still offering them or will you ever offer them again? I would be interested in a lesson if you are going to do them again, but I don't think I can afford it otherwise. Thank you for your time.

Me literally speaking a nasal language natively >

So, TIL, I'm a genetic failure in yet another way. I *literally* can't do that "blocking nose." If I hold my breath, I do that with my diaphragm or throat. I cannot "close my nose," I don't even understand how that works. If I jump into a pool, water doesn't get into my nose, because the nostrils are downwards. If I turn upside down, water will 100% go into my nose. To block bad smells, I have to hold my breath. Breathing through nose only is only possible while holding my nose, or when my nose gets clogged. No wonder why my voice sounds so atrocious.

i refuse to believe that she hasn't studied linguistics

OF when??

my bf calls you 'mamasita' and wants you to call him.