Oh, great video! Yes I did notice that in my own process, but now it makes me think about how the lip movement is connected to the oral cavity size in general and to reduce it while keeping the lips position neutral. Like, correct me if I'm wrong, but lips and cheeks that are mostly responsible for the oral cavity size (excluding the tongue positioning inside the mouth), and reducing the size of that R2 (right..?) is achieved by the change in muscle tension in lips/cheeks area. Does that mean that I'm doing something wrong or understanding it wrong, or is it that the reduced size of the R2 is usually achieved differently/independently from the lip movement/tension? And yes, thanks for a good insight, it's like getting another piece of a big puzzle or smth like that!

I got to a speech therapist recently (this year) for my trans-affirming treatments and she is constantly emphasizing the smiling thing, praising me when she hears me put it on. The tension feels very bad and leads to unnecessary fatigue. Most of the trans-affirming care here is based on texts from about 40+ years ago and misgenders trans people so I'm not surprised the vocal therapy is outdated as well...

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you saved my life

I’m so glad to hear TVL is expanding again. Was so happy to see Clover when they were originally introduced to us. You had made clear that you felt spread too thin back when you ran the community all by yourself. Keep up all the wonderful work you are doing, Z, Clover, Vivian(spelling ?) and all the others that help make the community what it’s become and is growing into.

Hey, just wanted to say that we really appreciate the work you do.

just wanted to say that i've been using your videos for a while (love them!!!) and one thing i hugely appreciate is your use of the youtube sections, it's so convenient!!! :D

Thank you so much for giving us girls the tools to find our voice! I’m a 6’3” Amazon and I’d never had made this much progress without your videos. ❤

1:20 That's just a little before I started working for Pizza Hut, where we were *all* advised to smile when speaking on the phone, regardless of gender. 😬

The progress on your vocal journey had been absolutely amazing to watch.

I got horrible TMJ from my voice teacher forcing me smile the entire time. Thank you for this tip

Great advice! I recently completed voice feminization speech therapy and a concern I always have in the back of my head is falling into old habits now that I'm not doing sessions any more. I'll keep this in mind, thank you!

When I see expert musicians and athletes, they often make their skill look so effortless. That's a byproduct of reducing extraneous muscle tension; they only use what muscles they actually need and try to minimize all other movement and tension. This mouth tension is another example of that, and a good thing to watch out for.

Thank you for the video! I am a blind, non-binary individual, and it is hard for me to know what my mouth looks like. but overall, your videos helped me a lot, and I am so grateful for that.❤️🥰

I love your videos and all the progress you've made for yourself. You are basically my transition goal. 😊

Girl, thank you. You are truly an inspiration, and have brought a lot of hope to vocal feminization for me, and I'm certain many many others. Seriously, you're probably saving lives

YOUR VIDEOS ARE AMAZING, IN A WEEK I AM ABLE TO WORK ON THE WEIGHT AND PITCH AND IT NOT ONLY HELPS ME PRESENT FEMININE BUT YOU MANAGED TO HELP ME BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW TO SING! (I have been a musician for a while and i used to think practicing falsetto would help me feminize my voice)

Omg I love your hair

Thank gawd you are still here. I need these

Your videos have been a god send to me. I finally found a voice that feels normal and natural :3

Omg this was a huge goal of mine right off the start! I made it a point in training to make all sorts of faces and lip movements while maintaining vocal qualities I preferred.

just discovered your music after hearing those sometimes microtonal piano chords in each section transition! ur awesome

Hey Z! I love you! You've helped me so so soooo much! I started with your videos and ended up with pretty close to your voice after almost two years of working on it. I just had vfs to get rid of that last little bit of vocal dysphoria. Even now, the voice training has given me a night and day difference over what would be possible with just surgery alone! Thank you!! You're amazing!!!

Yes. I was also tought to smile for fem voice. Interesting how this feminisation is developing. And thank you for keeping doing videos for us.

I’m so glad you made this video I noticed that when I first started your videos and I thought pulling your lips was what I was supposed to do

Its funny you made a video about this, I was just realizing I was doing this a few days ago!

U the most gorgeus girl ive ever seen believe youre the one that blushes me up every time I wach your videos. 😊

Just wanted to add myself to the long list of people to thank you for these. Didn’t figure it out until 30 and it’s going to be a struggle and a half but I have some home due to many good resources like this.

Huh! Interesting. In my youth I'd read a book on ventriloquism -- I have no idea why -- and practiced it quite a lot, so I got really accustomed to playing around with my throat and mouth without engaging my lips. I still do it from time to time, especially if I'm just talking out loud to myself. So when I started following some of your exercises, it honestly didn't occur to me to involve my lips at all. Seeing this, it makes sense that other people do it, it's just not something that had occurred to me. Neat!

You are an incredible teacher and I love your methodology! I am not trans but genderqueer. I've actually been looking into learning how to use a masculine voice for when I want to express myself as such but I have also been in a weird place with my default feminine presenting voice. I sound different all the time and I want to understand how to even make a voice properly so I can have more control over how I sound like.

You are awesome!

I love what you did with ur hair Z it looks nice. Also I thought ur acword smile was just because u liked having it.

The other thing it can cause is under-rounding of rounded vowels. The Goose vowel becomes the Gus vowel and it makes things sound silly. It’s cool to see this addressed!

I've enjoyed your channel

Hey! Thanks for the new video! I was trying to get a hold of you about a lesson, but it seems to not reach you? All the best, Theda

What a beautiful look you have now. Best regards ❤

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Do you have plans on remaking your resonance video to fit with the newer, more beginner friendly and experiential direction of your content? Im really road-blocked on it, especially because I have yet to find a spectrogram like the one you had in that video that shows R2 so I cant tell in the moment if im doing things correctly.

I always just thought I was automatically smiling because I liked the sound of my voice 😭

I have to think about it. Am I doing it? Its not like I had any Progress anyway, is it part of my Body Language, or part of me trying to sound feminine. And nice hair Colore, you look pretty whit it.

Hey Z... I've recently start practicing and at first I felt like I was doing okay but now I realized I'm I think I'm swing towards more of a falsetto instead of higher resonace. How do I fixe this? I want try one of your group classes but I'm not going to attempt until I'm a little further along.

Two things I noticed while watching this video. 1. I think I unconsciously copied that lip behavior from some of your older videos. 2. Some priests appear to do that, but without altering their voice, and it's scary Really good video as always❤️

Could you do a video, on how to pursue trans affirming care like voice therapy, and etc?

Hey, is there anywhere we can hear the complete composition of yours that you use as intro?

Hi Z! Do you think it's possible for someone to not be able to change their voice due to voice conditions? And also can only changing resonance without changing vocal weight work for some people?

Can you do a video on voice adduction? I've been told by two people so far that I might have an issue with this, but there seems to be 0 resources online about it for trans voice training purposes, and the only videos about it are singing related, not speaking related and definitely not in a gender modification context.

Hello, I've been trying for a while now to feminize my voice. I've watched and practiced after watching and rewatching to make certain I'm not making mistakes. However, I feel as if my speech impairment in general is blocking what I am trying to accomplish. However this is where my problem comes into play. Thru-out every video I have seen, all guidelines possible that I have come across. My own impairment to my masculine voice has always been an issue. I don't know how to fix it nor am I able to come across any vocal coach to assist in overcoming it. Now for the impairment in general though. I use to serve, I had broken teeth, had them surgically removed. Front teeth to be exact back in 2014. Due to this, I've always slurred words and it's made talking in general harder for others to understand. Even if I choose to talk slower and even try to talk clearer. I've always slurred my words. It's become a major hinderance in the steps to feminize the voice. You wouldn't know a work around or know someone who could assist, would you?

I have a question that isn't related to the topic of the video but I desperately need help with, one of the main process of feminizing your voice that is widely spread is keeping your larynx high, however, when I go to my singing classes my vocal coach says that I need to lower my larynx so I can not have my voice stuck in my throat. How can I sing "full out" but still keep feminine?

Not trans. But always find vids interesting and impressive

Unrelated to this video, but figure I should ask this on the most recent one. Anyone have any idea why the voice would be different one day vs another, despite me (seemingly) doing nothing different? I have like "spikes" in my progress where I feel like I'm getting better and it just turns out to be pure randomness because the next day I do literally everything exactly the same to the best of my ability and I lose whatever it is I was seemingly doing the day I got good recordings. It's SO frustrating because it makes me feel like I'm not in control of my voice or voice progress because a good recording doesn't come out due to any effort on my part, instead being due to complete luck and randomness that one day...

I have been doing your training none stop. So, far I have been doing it 6 - 7 hrs a day. Now, I'm worried my adams apple feels like it gets stuck at a high pitch. Then my throat hurts. Will it permantly stay high if you use a high pitch too much? I just find it more enjoyable talking in a high pitch then a low one now. Also, can your adams apple be stuck raised high?

I think I've heard "you would be prettier if you smiled more" somewhere before... lol :/

Intro Song?

TVL - a bad lip reading. Seagulls ... stop it now.

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Love your videos. But just an observation. I notice that I can connect to you and your videos when I can actually see your face clearly and also your lips. You are a pretty girl there is no need to erase your face with filters. Its not helpful. ❤

I am far too old to be good at any of this

Nancy Pelosi needs to hear this.

i feel like being trans is an eternal waking nightmare

Greetings my friend!!....You are the right expert to make this insane reaction video and give us your opinion about this insane singer...In 2017, the music world was shocked by the bursting onto the scene of a 22-year-old singer named Dimash Kudaibergen, who performed on the famous Chinese competition show for professional singers called “The Singer”... It was just it was necessary for this young man to make his first appearance, making a cover of one of the most difficult songs in the world, a famous French composition called "S.O.S. D'un Terrien En Détresse", to be considered from that moment on as the best singer in the entire planet....No one in the musical field had ever seen a human being, being able to reach vocal ranges above 7 octaves and several semitones, that is, all 88 keys of a digital piano, which reaches a little more than 7 octaves and as if that weren't enough, sing the more than 12 languages...Since then all kinds of experts (Vocal coachs, singers, musicians, analysts, singing teachers, youtubers, reactors, etc.) have dedicated themselves to reviewing their presentations to try to understand how someone can sing this way...The incredible thing is that that presentation in China was in 2017 but what Dimash has done in these 5 years is to further improve his wide vocal range, which is currently practically above of the 8 octaves... The Covid pandemic stopped his concerts worldwide, all with tickets sold in just seconds, via the internet, but at the same time it ended up catapulting him to the top of popularity worldwide...Anyway, since I think you are one of those reactors who have not yet met this impressive singer, here is the link of that presentation in China in 2017, with the song S.O.S. and I would like you to mention my name as the person who recommended him to you...You have to be prepared because your channel will explode with an avalanche of views, comments and new subscribers....I leave you one more recent video than the others, so it does not have the same number of views as the previous ones, which have millions of views, but it is a more complete video, with an intro, subtitles in several languages and with the improved quality of audio and sound....kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mKqIZqmZ0t-ykZc.html

Are you trans??🥰

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Dude, so much effort and guides for voice changing, hiding your manlish facial features behind bair and makeup - for what? Whom are you trying to fake - yourself, or others? spoiler: other still see what you are

hello! do you answer emails/are your emails working for your site? i sent one in about a week ago and was wondering if it even went through. sorry for the weird comment, didn't know where else to reach ya. 😅

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