[EvaMarie]

OK here is a quick recording I made on my way out the door prior to surgery... He's even a more dead now and that makes me very happy thinking I will never have to be haunted by hearing "him" anymore

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1OS7t8CfKoW

Here's a recording from about a month ago right before I made the decision to have the surgery... I put this one on here because this is really about as good as it ever got after nearly 11 months of near constant effort and 6 months of living very full time...

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0uMx3tDaH77

One more before natural/trained... Neither were any good for the way Im living now...

http://vocaroo.com/i/s09KFwxcqEi7

Here is a recording 10 days post op, it can only get better Id think!!!

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1O1QxlOsv2R

[GoneGirl]

Very encouraging, Eva. You sound good.

Clara

[Lotus]

OK here is a quick recording I made on my way out the door prior to surgery... He's even a more dead now and that makes me very happy thinking I will never have to be haunted by hearing "him" anymore

Eva, thats awesome, I only heard her, him who?.

[EvaMarie]

Thanks!!! I was told it will take up to two months to really start to sound anywhere near good, I have to try to remember that.... Im just VERY impatient At least so far though it sounds natural and not really weird or way too high... I was really scared of that... I made another recording this morning and while its better its not much better... Maybe just a bit stronger and higher but still pretty monotone.... I wont bother updating this every day Im sure Id benefit from pro speech therapy but there is none to be found around here... Im hoping that in time as it improves and I become less self conscious about my voice (IT WAS TERRIBLE) it will all just kinda fall into place...

From what I gather though what this surgery will do for me is make the break into falsetto very smooth to even nonexistent... There are times Im surprising myself with the girly noises Im making, its done a very good thing in eliminating a lot of the deeper resonance... I definitely CANT go anywhere near as deep as it used to be and that right there is HUGE to me I guess thats my biggest fear, that the low end will come back, still some there but different in a good way.... Im hoping this is the absolute bottom and the higher end opens up, OK I guess for only 12 days post op.... Cut off the low end and I will find a way to develop and increase the range of the high end in time... I can hear a similarity to my old trained voice, its close but there is ZERO effort to raise it, its there without trying at all... Id think as everything heals it will be very easy to get into the lower female range PERMANENTLY... Then I just have to work on inflection and prosody, "talk like a woman"

http://vocaroo.com/i/s17cAkzwlzmZ

[The First Aria]

Wow, what a dif... Sounds almost 2 octives higher. Glad things are going to your liking.

[EvaMarie]

Hey thanks I donno about 2 octaves but it is definitely getting better and better by the day

I live alone here with my dog and I keep surprising myself with noises, grunts and groans that USED to be masculine.... Now they are quite feminine I will forget all about it and mumble or mutter something and totally surprise myself.... WHOA!!!

Still very monotone and weak but it seems its already in the lower female range 160-200 hz with ZERO effort.... Id think once its fully healed and the top end comes back Im gonaa be able to really work with it... Right now if I try to control the lower resonance and raise pitch there just isnt much there.... I think once I can cut off the low end even further and raise the pitch just a bit more its gonna be VERY good

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Fjew091Nb5

[EvaMarie]

My voice was and still is my biggest challenge...

Its been healing good though and Ive noticed its pretty easy for me to talk in the female range now where as before I could only do that with a TON of effort...

I still have an annoying male resonance and I unfortunately can still go pretty deep with it... That resonance seems WAY easier to control now though... I still have no falsetto voice yet but in this recording Its easy to talk in the 200-260hz range

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0l1cQsEsHj0

For 3 weeks post op I think its pretty good, Im hoping to see a bit more of a rise in pitch and Im sure I will...

Its hard for me to get my prosody and inflection right just talking to my computer... Talking on the phone to women and with my girlfriends however is different story and when its right I can just feel it and when its wrong I can also feel it... Its going to take time to learn to modulate pitch and get the resonance right but I do notice my brain is at least letting me know when its right now... It FEELS better, pretty cool

At least now though the real deep BASS is GONE though, got a new guy Im gonna try it with and see how that works out

[pom19]

EvaMarie, I just listened to before and then after, could not believe the difference. Well done. Hugs, POM

[EvaMarie]

Thanks Pom, I appreciate the critique

Im happy with it but its still pretty weak and Im sure it will only get better in time

DEFINITELY worth the $$$ and effort though

[Missed Miss]

Sounds pretty good!! Time may prove it even better!!
Y'know what, though? Although I HAVE heard GG's speak the way you do, but not very many, it's not just the pitch you need to "worry" about, but the WAY you speak. Listen to the way women generally speak and practice emulating it as much as you can. You SOUND like a girl, but you still SPEAK a bit like a boy. I mean, the way you say/pronounce/articulate some words. I hope this helps. Take care!!