She was able to override the natural initial inhibitions most clients have to adopting a different sound. Primarily, it was because she had no resistance to the process or the exercises. Why then did client E modify her voice with just 2 extended length appointments (1hr and 40 minutes each)? The therapist adjusts to each and every client according to their needs. It very often depends on the clients level of social transition and confidence levels. It is more common for the process to take at least 10-12 – some individuals may attend for more than 12 sessions. It is not uncommon for some clients to successfully modify their voice within 4- 8 sessions. The following two recordings demonstrate how far her voice changed from the initial appointment to her second: She thanked me very much for my input and said she didn’t feel she needed her next appointment. Client E wrote to say that she had been using the voice we had practiced all over the Christmas holidays and liked it very much and that she had experienced no adverse comments from friends and family. I decided to record her again during her second appointment (I was very glad I did because she cancelled her third). Typically, trans gender voice changes take a little time. Whilst I’ve worked with a very many clients who’ve made remarkable changes, the difference with this client was the speed at which she achieved the voice change. She progressed through the next exercises very well. Two weeks later, she attended for her first follow up. I made the baseline recordings as usual prior to practising the first exercises. I want clients – some of whom have often travelled considerable distances to access the service- to take away something tangible and practical.Īnd so it was that client E attended for her first appointment – an initial assessment and her first follow-up session on the same day (equal to 1 hour and 40 minutes in total). This first session always contains my initial two exercises. The initial assessment had similar elements to the thousands of other initial assessments I have carried out with trans women.

Recently a trans woman client presented for voice feminisation.

Online voice change male to female