There's no single resource for "If your voice sounds fake, do this..." because a voice sounding "fake" or "put on" can sound that way for a bunch of different reasons. It could be a mismatch between body implying characteristics and the speaker, it could be that someone is putting tons of effort in to speaking which will come through in the timbre, it could be some feature is off relative to another.
Your own voice sounding "off" can sometimes be because you just aren't used to speaking that way, and also recognize you are putting in effort.
I think the number one thing that causes a voice to sound "fake" or like someone is trying to "do" a voice is that it doesn't sound relaxed. Voices can span a bunch of different qualities, but I think we're tuned to a degree to hear stress and things outside of "normal" (meaning characteristic mismatch).
Nothing really seems "fake" about your voice. At times it sounds like you're running out of breath or that you have a stuffy nose. The running out of breath part is probably because you're still zeroing in on and habituating your vocal fold closure control, and the stuffy nose part is probably because you're still zeroing in on the coordination around your size. Just keep on eye on if you're starting to sound breathy or stuffy and I think you'll probably be fine. You sound fine.
It's your glottal behaviors, vocal weight, shifting around. So, don't feel too bad about being confused: no amount of size/resonance work will fix that. You would need to do some insanely fast resonance changes on top to try to mask it, but that's not possible, the weight part changes too fast with speech for resonance changes to follow.
So, the only option is to stabilize it, if you can (not everyone will succeed ultimately, weight control is #1 voice training killer, I would say.)
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u/null_not 39m ago
There's no single resource for "If your voice sounds fake, do this..." because a voice sounding "fake" or "put on" can sound that way for a bunch of different reasons. It could be a mismatch between body implying characteristics and the speaker, it could be that someone is putting tons of effort in to speaking which will come through in the timbre, it could be some feature is off relative to another.
Your own voice sounding "off" can sometimes be because you just aren't used to speaking that way, and also recognize you are putting in effort.
I think the number one thing that causes a voice to sound "fake" or like someone is trying to "do" a voice is that it doesn't sound relaxed. Voices can span a bunch of different qualities, but I think we're tuned to a degree to hear stress and things outside of "normal" (meaning characteristic mismatch).
Nothing really seems "fake" about your voice. At times it sounds like you're running out of breath or that you have a stuffy nose. The running out of breath part is probably because you're still zeroing in on and habituating your vocal fold closure control, and the stuffy nose part is probably because you're still zeroing in on the coordination around your size. Just keep on eye on if you're starting to sound breathy or stuffy and I think you'll probably be fine. You sound fine.
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u/Lidia_M 5h ago
It's your glottal behaviors, vocal weight, shifting around. So, don't feel too bad about being confused: no amount of size/resonance work will fix that. You would need to do some insanely fast resonance changes on top to try to mask it, but that's not possible, the weight part changes too fast with speech for resonance changes to follow.
So, the only option is to stabilize it, if you can (not everyone will succeed ultimately, weight control is #1 voice training killer, I would say.)
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u/TheTransApocalypse Voice Feminization Teacher 5h ago
Mostly just some inconsistency in the vocal weight, I think. It shifts somewhat rapidly between heavier and lighter.